What are AI-generated turn images? (beta)

Beta. This feature is experimental. The AI's choices about when to illustrate a turn, and the images themselves, will get better as we tune the prompts and model. Feedback is welcome.

Some worlds opt in to turn images: an illustration 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.

Turn images are off by default for every world. An image generates automatically only when two conditions are met:

1. The world's author has opted the world in.
2. Automatic images are on for the journey. Each journey follows your account setting unless you override it in that journey's settings.

These conditions only control 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, charged on top of the turn that triggered it. 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 on a turn-images world 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 Profile page and find the AI Images card. The switch there is the default for your journeys. Turning it off means no journey generates images automatically unless you say otherwise for that journey.

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 setting is saved to your account and follows 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

If you're authoring a world and want it to use turn images, open the editor and look under Advanced Features → Turn Images. Flip the Enable AI-generated scene images switch and save.

First pick an Art style: Anime (stylised illustration) or Realistic (photorealistic). The choice sets which image model the AI's prompts are sent to, so pick the one that fits your world's tone before you generate anything.

Right under that you'll find an Image guidance textarea. 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.

Two more things to know:

• The AI decides when to illustrate. You cannot force an image on a specific turn today. Writing style that emphasizes visual moments (scene transitions, dramatic reveals, iconic character beats) tends to produce more images.
• Existing journeys on your world won't suddenly start generating images after you flip the flag. Each journey locks in the world's settings at creation time, so only new journeys will pick up the change.