BiVR Workshop 1: Intro to AI Tools for VR World Building

Resources:

Midjourney

  • Midjourney is an artificial intelligence-based image generator.
  • The user creates a text prompt and the AI interprets it.
  • The AI draws from millions of previous artworks to create an accurate depiction of the prompt.

How to use Midjourney

  1. Download Discord and create an account (https://discord.com/download), if you have used Midjourney before you will need to use another email address to access for free.
  2. Go to the Midjourney website and click Join Beta, which will send you to the Midjourney Discord Server
  3. Go to the Newcomer Rooms Category & find a channel called “newbies-##”
  4. Click on the chat box and write “/imagine” then click space.  Write your prompt in the box and click enter.
  5. After 4 versions of your image have been generated after a few minutes, You can choose to Upscale an image by pressing “U#” or create Variants of an image by pressing “V#”.  The numbers read from left to right, top to bottom.
  6. Click on the image you like, Open in Browser.  Right click the browser image and click “Save image as”.

Use existing images as a Reference

  1. Start by uploading an image to the Midjourney chat
  2. Right click the image and copy the link
  3. Start writing /imagine, then when the prompt box appears, paste the image URL in the box, followed by some extra prompt words to alter it.

How to write an effective prompt

  • Be very descriptive and clear
  • Use keywords
  • Mention the background last
  • Use commas to add additional features that will influence the whole image
  • Sentence structure is important:  
  • Adjectives, Nouns, Presentation, Features/ Additions (with), Background (and)