Improvements and new features

[torrinworx]

• Add image preset prompts to get good results, reference
• Automatic image upscaling, see video2x lossless upscaling
• Creation of Normal Maps for textures: see unflattener, normal-map-generator
• Tillable textures, see native_seamless_tile_generation_no_inpainting - GitHub Pull and native_seamless_tile_generation_no_inpainting - Reddit
• Documentation for Stable Diffusion word prompt tricks, see increases_attention_to_enclosed_words_decreases
• Possible implementation of viewport rendering: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/x6cbwp/wrote_a_plugin_that_renders_the_cinema_4d_scene/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
• Ability to view step for each iteration within the Image Editor: see example
• Reinforce Mac OS compatibility
• Make way to view previous prompt inputs with UI list maybe?

Other:

• Functionality to install Venv on a system path so that other versions of Blender can access the same SD repository.
• Allow user to specify Venv download path with a string field in the add-on preferences. If path not specified, download path to default system path on a drive with more than 8 GB of space available.
• Allow user to delete Venv and reinstall dependencies
• Allow user to update Venv without completely re-installing it
• Make .bat files compatible with Linux and Darwin OS': https://stackoverflow.com/questions/589905/equivalent-of-double-clickable-sh-and-bat-on-mac

[torrinworx]

Apparently Displacement is "real depth" and Normal maps are "fake depth", I think we should eventually add the capability to create both from the SD images.

[torrinworx]

Found this: https://cpetry.github.io/NormalMap-Online/

Code for this site is found here: https://github.com/cpetry/NormalMap-Online/

It's a static website written in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Might have trouble converting the JavaScript to Python for our purposes.

[torrinworx]

Good reference for all the types of texture files: https://help.poliigon.com/en/articles/1712652-what-are-the-different-texture-maps-for

[torrinworx]

Investigate using this version of Stable Diffusion which supports tiling: https://github.com/lstein/stable-diffusion

Perhaps prepare a zipped version of it that can be downloaded instead of the current raw version, this might also cut out the need for the Diffusers and Transformers Library that adds a lot of bloat to the Python dependency instillation.