>>92278072I tried that # prompting and it worked consistently. Definitely useful. If you're having issues getting 2 characters genned together one next to the other put on your main prompt "side-by-side" and on the character grid distribute them like this. If you leave it to the AI's choice you'll get a lot of gens where 1 character is the main focus and the 2nd one is in the background. Leave that space in the middle empty. Since I started distributing the characters this way I stopped having any issues doing 2 characters. You can also do (O X O X O) for 3 characters.
Also, the blurry artifacting: While blurring is mostly unavoidable, one thing that helped me out was playing with the prompting guidance of the image. As you know every mix has a PG value that works best on them. My V3 mixes worked on 7,5 / 8 PG but now the images become too sharp and blurry so I have to drop the PG to 5,5 / 6. PG rescale a bit helped me mitigate some of the blurriness since now it sharpens the gens without removing that much color from them. I use very low values though since the rescale is much more powerful now than in V3. Dunno, might be placebo. But mentioning just in case.
Solo artist tags are much more strong now but crazy accurate solo. Tricky to mix, but doable.