Modding Age of Empires II with a Sprite-Diffuser

That is sick, I'd love to play some wackier AOE environments, or do "space station vs jumping castle" battles.

Units would be hard because there's a sprite for each direction which you'll have to keep consistent, but it would be great to see if it's possible to do, maybe as a sprite sheet

Wow that was a treat. The author makes everything seems so easy. I fired up AUTOMATIC1111 recently and making good AI generated art (or whatever you want to call it) is way harder than it seems.

Big AoE fan here. The idea is brilliant and I love the execution.

I wish the author did not put every screenshot in a gif, I'd have preferred to be able to look at the results in a less stressful way. 2 seconds to switch to another screenshot, that's way too fast!

On a side note, it would be interesting to try to apply the same technique to units and effects (explosions, fire, etc). I didn't see a mention of it by the author so I wonder if there's a technical limitation here that wasn't mentioned.

This is great, can't wait unti this is taken to the next level...

(they touch on this at the end of the article)

- An RTS without units or buildings by default.

- The players enter prompts and creates any unit they can imagine.

This is a game that came out in 1999! More than 20 years later there have been two remakes, there's still a huge and healthy community and a thriving pro scene. And now someone is using relatively cutting edge image AI to mod the sprites.

It's crazy to me how some of these old games have such staying power (Super Smash Bros Melee is another that comes to mind).