SD Forge Attention Couple

This is an Extension for the Forge Webui, which allows you to generate couples target conditioning at different regions. No more color bleeds or mixed features!

Compatible with both old & new Forge; Does not work with Automatic1111 Webui

Supports both SD 1 & SDXL but not Flux

Showcase

• Generate the following prompt using Juggernaut XL V7, with the same seed and parameters:

  a cinematic photo of 2 men arguing, indoors
  2 men, jesus christ, white robe, looking at each other, shouting
  2 men, santa claus, looking at each other, shouting
  

Extension	Disabled	Enabled
Result	Features mixed between characters	Distinct and separate characters

How to Use

Note

The effect of this Extension is dependent on the prompt-adherence capability of the Checkpoint. If the checkpoint does not understand the composition, it still cannot generate the result correctly.

Tip

As shown in the various examples, even if a region only contains 1 subject, it's usually still better to prompt for the total amount of subjects first.

Index

• Basic Mode
  • Tile Direction
  • Global Effect
• Advanced Mode
• Mask Mode
• Misc.
  • Compatibility
  • Separator
  • Common Prompts
  • LoRA
• API

Basic Mode

The Basic mode works by dividing the image into multiple "tiles" where each tile corresponding to one line of the positive prompt. Therefore, simply prompt more lines if you want more regions.

2girls, blonde twintails, cyan eyes, white serafuku, standing, waving, looking at viewer, smile
2girls, black long hair, red eyes, dark school uniform, standing, crossed arms, looking away

Tile Direction

In the Basic mode, you can choose between whether to divie the image into columns or rows.

• Horizontal: First / Last line corresponds to the Left / Right region
• Vertical: First / Last line corresponds to the Top / Bottom region

Direction set to Vertical

galaxy, stars, milky way
blue sky, clouds
sunrise, lens flare
ocean, waves
beach, sand
pavement, road

Global Effect

In Basic and Mask modes, you can set either the first line or the last line of the positive prompt as the "background," affecting the entire image instead of just one region. Useful for specifying styles or quality tags used by SD 1.5 and Pony checkpoints.

This has no effect in Advanced mode

Advanced Mode

Were these automated and equally-sized tiles not sufficient for your needs? Now you can manually specify each regions!

Important

The entire image must contain weight. The easiest way would be adding a region that covers the whole image (just like Global Effect).

• Entries:
  • Each row contains a range for x axis, a range for y axis, a weight, as well as the corresponding line of prompt
  • The range should be within 0.0 ~ 1.0, representing the percentage of the full width/height
    • eg. 0.0 to 1.0 would span across the entire axis
  • x axis is from left to right; y axis is from top to bottom
  • 2 (to) should be larger than 1 (from)

Note

The mapping data is not sent when using the Send to img2img function. Click the Pull from txt2img to manually transfer the data.

• Control:

  • Click on a row to select it, highlighting its bounding box
    • Click on the same row again to deselect it
  • When a row is selected, click the 🆕 button above / below to insert a new row above / below
    • If holding Shift, it will also insert a newline to the prompts
  • When a row is selected, click the ❌ button to delete it
    • If holding Shift, it will also delete the corresponding line of prompt
  • Click the Default Mapping button to reset the mappings

• Draggable Region:

  • When a bounding box is highlighted, simply drag the box around to reposition the region; drag the edges / corners to resize the region

• Background:

  • Click the 📂 button to load a image as the background of the mapping
  • Click the ⏏ button to load the img2img input image as the background
  • Click the 🗑 button to clear the background

Advanced Mode UI

Generation Result

a cinematic photo of a couple, from side, outdoors
couple photo, man, black tuxedo
couple photo, woman, white dress
wedding photo, holding flower bouquet together
sunset, golden hour, lens flare

Mask Mode

Were these bounding boxes still too rigid for you...? Now you can also manually draw the areas for each regions!

Important

The entire image must contain weight. The easiest way would be using the Global Effect.

• Canvas:
  • Click the Create Empty Canvas button to generate a blank canvas to draw on
  • Only pure white (255, 255, 255) pixels count towards the mask, other colors are simply discarded
    • This also means that other colors can function as the "eraser" for the mask
  • Click the Save Mask button to save the image as a new layer of masks
  • When a layer is selected:
    • Click Load Mask to load the mask into canvas
    • Click Override Mask to save the image and override the selected layer of mask
  • Click the Reset All Masks button to clear all the data

Note

The mask data is not sent when using the Send to img2img function. Click the Pull from txt2img to manually transfer the data.

• Entries:

  • Each row contains a preview of the layer, the corresponding line of prompt, and the weight for the layer
  • Click the preview image to select the layer
  • Use the arrow buttons to quickly re-order the layers
  • Click the ❌ button to delete the layer

• Uploads:

  • Use the Upload Background to upload an image as the reference to draw masks on
    • The image will get dimmed, therefore it will not count towards the mask
  • Use the Upload Mask to upload an image as a mask that can directly be saved
    • Mainly for when you prepare the masks in external programs

Warning

For Classic Forge (Gradio 3) users, avoid pasting images. Instead manually upload or simply drag & drop the images. Using Ctrl + V might send the image to the Canvas, thus breaking the Extension...

Mask Mode UI

Generation Result

cinematic photo of a dungeon
glowing lit lamps
treasure chest

Compatibility Toggle

When the option is enabled, this Extension will not function during the Hires. Fix pass to improve the compatibility with other Extensions. Has minimal impact on performance and results.

Couple Separator

By default when the field is left empty, this Extension uses the newline character (\n) as the separator to determine "lines" of the prompts. You may also specify other words as the separator instead.

• To keep your custom separator in its own line, you can add \n before and after the word

  • eg. \nMySep\n

• Do not include space in the separator

  • (left empty): OK
  • abc : OK
  • xyz\n : OK
  • \n : OK
  • \n\n : OK
  • \n \n : ERROR

Common Prompts

If you have multiple characters that share the same poses, expressions, or outfits, it would've been a chore to keep copying and pasting the same lines over and over again. Now, you can simplify this process via the new Common Prompts feature:

0. To enable, select a syntax between { } or < > first
1. First, define an unique key (eg. cloth)
2. Second, follow up with a : (eg. cloth:)
3. Third, follow up with your common prompts (eg. cloth:t-shirt, jacket, jeans)
4. Then, surround the whole thing with your chosen brackets (eg. {cloth:t-shirt, jacket, jeans})
5. Finally, you can now use the key to recall the common prompts in other lines (ie. {cloth})

• TL;DR: If you have {foo:bar} in your prompt, every occurrence of {foo} (and the original {foo:bar}) will be replaced with bar during the generation

Important

• The key has to be unique
• You can have multiple common prompts at the same time
• Each bracket can only contain one key

Tip

You can enable Debug to check if it is working as intended in the console

Note

Might be incompatible with Extensions that process prompts (eg. sd-dynamic-prompts)

score_9, score_8_up, score_7_up, source_anime, high quality, best quality, masterpiece, {subject:2girls}, <lora:hasunosora_pony:0.8>,
{subject}, murano sayaka, low twintails, {cloth:brown dress, white sailor collar, neckerchief, standing, arms behind back, looking at viewer, smile, blush, classroom}
{subject}, hinoshita kaho, medium hair, {cloth}

This works for all 3 modes

LoRA Support

Using multiple LoRAs in different regions is possible, though it depends on how well the LoRAs work together...

LoRA that contains multiple subjects seems to work better in my experience.

[high quality, best quality], 2girls, on stage, backlighting, [bloom, hdr], <lora:suzurena:0.72>
2girls, miyama suzune, pink idol costume, feather hair ornament, holding hands, looking at viewer, smile, blush
2girls, hanaoi rena, blue idol costume, feather hair ornament, holding hands, looking at viewer, shy, blush

API

For usage with API, please refer to the Wiki

Caution

The Mask mode is broken if you use the Webui with --api flag. So either:

• Use the Webui alone
  or
  
• Use the API alone with both --api and --nowebui flags

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TypeError: 'NoneType'

For users that get the following error:

RuntimeError: shape '[X, Y, 1]' is invalid for input of size Z
shape '[X, Y, 1]' is invalid for input of size Z
*** Error completing request
    ...
    Traceback (most recent call last):
        ...
        res = list(func(*args, **kwargs))
    TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable

1. Go to Settings -> Optimizations, and enable Pad prompt/negative prompt
2. Set the Width and Height to multiple of 64

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Special Thanks

• Credits to the original author, laksjdjf, whose ComfyUI Node I used to port into Forge
• Also check out arcusmaximus's alternative approach to draggable-box-ui