Version 2.0 Update

Version 2 adds a few things to the package: activities with sound is just like activities, but includes descriptions of the sound environment. The files like "...lines..." and "...jokes..." are dialogue files that you can (and should) edit to put your own words in the characters' mouths. The file with the "_h3" suffix have dialogue syntax compatible with Minimax H3. Finally, the "hand actions" files now have alternate "one_hand_actions" versions that only describe one hand doing the action. If you use the original hand actions files, many times a two-handed action would conflict with some other action already in the prompt, and the video engine would solve the problem with a third hand. Not ideal. So if you use the actions in prompts where the character might already be doing something with one hand, then the one hand action files give you a better chance of success.

Several people have asked for a copy of the wildcards that I use in my prompts for images and videos. Here they are!

Please consider these wildcards as just a starting point for your own prompt construction. Edit, delete, add, and make the wildcards your own.

Installation:

Unzip the wildcards .zip file and you'll have a "darkroast" folder. Place that folder inside the "wildcards" directory of the random prompts utility of your choice.

• AdaptivePrompts in ComfyUI: ComfyUI\custom_nodes\comfyui-adaptiveprompts\wildcards

• DynamicPrompts in ComfyUI: ComfyUI\custom_nodes\comfyui-dynamicprompts\wildcards

• DynamicPrompts in Automatic1111: stable-diffusion-webui\extensions\sd-dynamic-prompts\wildcards

• DynamicPrompts in Forge: stable-diffusion-webui-reForge\extensions\sd-dynamic-prompts\wildcards

Most of the image and video AI systems out there are based on one of those two tools, so the directories should be similar the tool you're using. See notes below for info on AdaptivePrompts and DynamicPrompts.

Here are a few points that might help you use or change the wildcards...

• Each wildcard file has a brief description at the top to let you know what's included, so I'm not going to repeat that all here.

• The prompts are formatted to work with AdaptivePrompts. Most of the prompt files will also work with DynamicPrompts. For the simple syntax included in these wildcard files, the only difference between those two prompt utilities is in how they handle the file glob syntax for including multiple files in a directory. If you want to use a catch-all prompt like "all_activities", for example, you'll need to edit that file before you can use it in DynamicPrompts. Other than that syntax difference, these prompts will work equally well in both.

• AdaptivePrompts custom nodes

• DynamicPrompts custom nodes

• I prefer to work with AdaptivePrompts because it knows how to reload the wildcard files without a comfyui restart. If you edit a wildcard file and save it, AdaptivePrompts will pick up your change on the next render, which is a big time saver when you're trying things out.

• I've found that AdaptivePrompts doesn't seem to like an empty prompt option and will sometimes do strange things, so I typically use a _ character in place of an empty prompt. This is helpful for a section of text that should appear sometimes, but doesn't have alternate text. Like for example:
  the man is driving a car {_|with a sunroof}.
  In this prompt, the sunroof is optional, but there's no alternate prompt. It's either the sunroof or nothing. The _ is used as the "empty prompt" option because it doesn't seem to affect Wan's text parser at all, so it's safe to include in your prompt without changing the output. (Fixed in latest version of AdaptivePrompts)

• My prompts are geared towards female characters, so you'll have some editing to do if you work with men in your videos. Sorry.

• All of the prompts are written without a period at the end so they are safe to use in a sentence with other text.

Examples:

{wide|medim|close-up} shot. natural light, warm light, rim light.
a woman wearing a t-shirt and jeans is __darkroast/all_activities__. she smiles at the camera.
__darkroast/cameraangle-wan__.
the camera pushes in for a close-up of her upper body.

{wide|medim|close-up} shot. natural light, warm light, rim light.
a woman wearing a __darkroast/simple_colors__ {bikini|one-piece swimsuit} is {__darkroast/activities/beach_pool__|__darkroast/activities/home__}.
__darkroast/cameraangle-wan-nobehind__.
the camera pushes in for a close-up of her face.