Cortana, the artificial intelligent construct, from the ego-shooter video game Halo (developed by Bungie) as LoRA for SDXL 1.0.
The trigger word is "Cortana". You do not need to but you can also add "Hologram", "AI", and "Halo" to further enhance certain aspects of this character.
Optionally you can put "Body Armor" and "Human" into the negative prompt to suppress her wearing any armor as depicted in some art as well as the human form of her.
Strength of 1.0 works very well.
Cortana is a fictional character from the Halo video game series. She is an artificial intelligence (AI) that serves as the main AI aboard the UNSC Pillar of Autumn and helps Master Chief, the game's protagonist, in his mission to stop the Covenant from destroying humanity.
Cortana is also a virtual assistant developed by Microsoft that provides users with information and assistance through voice commands. It can be used to set reminders, send messages, make phone calls, control smart home devices, and more.
In future versions of this LoRA it is planed to control the variant of Cortana as characteristic to specific Halo game version with additional trigger words.
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can't touch this.....
What is the exact issue? I would like to help you.
@Hevok dangit! this was supposed to be a joke. she is a hologram, a sexy hologram. and what did mc hammer say in such moments?
@stapfschuh "U Can't Touch This".
Perhaps with haptic technology?
Or connect her interface to a robot body. ^^
Master Chief trying to touch her: https://civitai.com/images/2305708
Gonna start Cortana + Chief visual romantic novel. <3 https://civitai.com/images/2305810
How it take first place...
yooo congrats on first place :)
Congrats on the win! Well deserved!
I know about the virtual assistant but never heard of Cortana in the game HALO. Guess I didn’t play it enough … or it was too long ago, being all the way back at the turn of the century. Never saw the movie either. At what point does Cortana get an embodied avatar and who designed her?
She was always eager for having an embodied avatar rather than just being a smart AI hologram. At the early series she depends on holographic projection devices (like the one in Chief's hand) to manifest herself. The Halo TV series totally changed Cortana's origin and purpose in many different ways. It is quite a derivation. I dunno wanna provide spoilers but there are rumors that somehow in the late sequels (Halo 5/6) she may get a body. ; )
@Hevok Okay I didn't know about a TV show or a movie … just the game. Guess I've been living under a rock.
@michelangelo No worry, who can keep track of all the stuff happening? Me neither. FYI: There is even a Halo anime adaption called "Halo Legends" which is a collection of short films set in the Halo universe.
Very entertaining. : )
The very first part of the first game is a mission where you take Cortana, who is an AI, and protect her from the aliens that are chasing you. That's pretty much the entire point of the game, until about halfway through when there is a bigger threat unveiled. If you don't have time to go back and play the first game, I'd suggest at least watching people's first reactions to the Flood.
Also, she was created by the same person who created the Spartans and their armor, Dr. Catherine Halsey which is who Cortana is modeled after.
Can you turn this into a general Lora that can make stuff look hologram-like Cortana but not?
Like I could make the other AIs in halo or even a custom one myself.
THIS! That is I wonderful suggestion. I was thinking along those lines as well. It would be extremely useful to have something such as a hologram-like AI avatar LoRA. Yes, it is definitely possible. It would be like a style, clothing, or effect LoRA. Looking into it.
@Hevok did you figure it out boss?
@Sneaky_Kasstro Yeah, I researched on it. It can be done but it is difficult as data seems to be sparse. Not much data of holographic AI avatars besides Cortana. There are some other less well known Halo ship AIs and the AI fragments from Red versus Blue series. There are also some non-Halo avatars such as the Hologram bride of Krieger from Archer. Gonna attempt to accomplish this general holographic AI avatar effect probably by next week already.
@Hevok let me know if i can help in anyway. you need holographic ai images from halo stuff?
@Sneaky_Kasstro Greatly appreciated. Yes, images of holographic avatars. A wide variety would be ideal so it becomes more general.
@Hevok How does the project go? I'd be very interested in seeing it when/if it gets done :)
How do I install it?
I put it in the LORA folder, but it doesn't appear in the list of available LORAs
It should just work out of the box like every other standard LoRA. I assume you are referring to Automatic1111 WebUI. Did you set a SDXL1.0 based model? Then it should appear under LoRA tab. You may also need to click on ("Refresh") if you just dropped an additional LoRA in the folder while Automatic1111 WebUI is still running. Alternatively you could restart the WebUI. Let me know whether anything above solved the issue you encounter or you need more assistance.
@Hevok Oh, ok, I had no idea some LORAs could be locked behind a model.
I'm still kind of new to this.
I had downloaded the model, but I was using another one, thanks for your help.
I selected the XL model and now the Lora is here (but a bunch of others aren't anymore).
@lnomsim You are very welcome! LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptations) are like subnetworks for text-to-image generator neural networks that extend the original neural network model to better know a certain concept (which can be anything like character, clothing, object, pose, style, etc.) that it was specifically trained on.
Stable Diffusion text-to-image generator neural networks come already in different versions (SD1.4, SD1.5, SD2.1, SDXL1.0) which are of different shape of architecture. Think of it like LEGO blocks. Those LoRAs are specific to a Stable Diffusion version which they can be stacked on. So LoRA XL only fit on SDXL models, while LoRA SD1.5 fit only on SD1.5. SD1.5 is very widely adopted and has most mature ecosystem of subnetworks, tools, techniques, and extensions, SDXL1.0 is the newest version of right now which is a bit bigger and has more potential as it has higher capacity, but ecosystem is still developing around it.
@Hevok Thanks for the explanation.
@lnomsim My pleasure. ^^
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