What are AI-generated turn images?

Turn images are illustrations generated alongside a turn when the AI thinks that turn has a strong visual beat worth picturing, such as a first meeting with a character, a dramatic reveal, or a transition to a new location.

Every journey you start can have them. An image generates automatically only when automatic images are on for the journey: each journey follows your account setting unless you override it in that journey's settings. Journeys started before turn images were available everywhere keep the setting their world had when they started.

This setting only controls automatic images. Generating an image yourself, on a turn or for a character portrait, always works.

How much do they cost?

Each generated image costs about 10 credits with the default generator (Krea), charged on top of the turn that triggered it. With Use character reference images on, a Krea image costs 25 credits; other generators show their price in the journey's image settings. Images fail silently if your credit balance runs low, if the generator is unavailable, or if the content is refused; the turn itself is never affected.

The AI is instructed to use images sparingly, and a per-journey cooldown prevents more than roughly one image every two turns. A typical journey will have only a handful of illustrated moments, not one per turn.

How do images look?

Two layouts, picked automatically from what the AI asked for:

• Side inset: a portrait of a single character (or the player character themselves) floats beside the narrative, with the text wrapping around it. Used when the moment is about a person, a face, or a reaction.
• Inline scene: a wide shot displayed full-width above the narrative. Used for environments, action scenes, and moments featuring multiple characters together.

Both render with a subtle fade-in. Images are high-resolution WebP and tap to expand in your browser.

Turning automatic images on or off

The default, for all journeys

Go to your account Settings, Content tab, and find the AI images card. The Automatic turn images switch there is the default for your journeys. Turning it off means no journey generates images automatically unless you say otherwise for that journey.

The Image generator right under it picks the engine new journeys start on. It is Krea unless you change it, and World default uses the engine the world's author picked. Each journey can still switch engines in its own settings.

Per journey

While playing, open Settings (top-right gear) and scroll to Turn images. The Automatic turn images option lets this journey follow your account default, or force automatic images on or off for this journey only. The same dialog picks this journey's Image generator and art style, and its Account settings button opens your account defaults in a new tab. These settings are saved to your account and follow you across devices.

When automatic images are off for a journey, the AI is not asked to pick image moments at all, so no output tokens or image-generation credits are spent. You'll always save credits by disabling, never waste them. And you can still generate an image yourself on any turn from its menu.

For world authors

Turn images are on for every world, so there is nothing to switch on. To shape them, open the editor and go to Turn Images.

You'll find an Image guidance textarea there. Anything you put there is a short hint to the AI about what to illustrate and how. It shapes both sides of the decision: which turns the AI chooses to illustrate and what booru tags it ends up writing. Keep it to one phrase (100 characters max). Useful examples:

• ghibli-inspired watercolor
• dark fantasy oil painting
• cyberpunk neon, focus on characters
• only illustrate combat and reveals

Leave the field empty if you want the AI to pick its own rhythm and style.

Below it, the Cooldown sets the minimum number of turns between two images (2 by default).

One more thing to know: the AI decides when to illustrate. Writing style that emphasizes visual moments (scene transitions, dramatic reveals, iconic character beats) tends to produce more images, and a story beat can force a scene image on the turn it fires.