Custom styles give you complete control over your visual novel's appearance through AI-powered image generation. Learn how to create, configure, and apply styles to bring your creative vision to life.

What are Custom Styles?

Custom styles are combinations of AI models that define how your characters and locations appear. Each style consists of:

• Checkpoints - The foundation that determines overall artistic direction
• LoRAs - Fine-tuning models that add specific features and enhancements
• Embeddings - Specialized concepts that improve AI understanding

Getting Started

Quick Start Guide

1. Understand the basics - Learn about Style Structure
2. Create your first style - Follow Creating Custom Styles
3. Apply to your story - Use Applying Styles
4. Optimize your workflow - Check out Tips

Key Concepts

Model Stack: The combination of checkpoint, LoRAs, and embeddings that work together to generate images with your desired style.

Style Hierarchy: Styles can be applied at two levels:

• Story Defaults - Affects all characters or all locations
• Entity-Specific - Overrides defaults for individual characters/locations

Architecture Compatibility: All models in a style must share the same architecture (Flux or HiDream).

Summary

Custom styles provide powerful control over your visual novel's artistic direction:

• Checkpoints set the foundation - choose quality, speed, or specialty models
• LoRAs add specific enhancements - artistic styles, features, and refinements
• Embeddings improve understanding - specialized concepts and consistency

Apply styles at different levels for flexibility:

• Story-wide for consistent appearance across all entities
• Entity-specific for unique looks on individual characters or locations

Start simple with just a checkpoint, then add complexity as needed. Balance quality with cost by using cheaper models during development and premium styles for final production.