Image models and art styles

Every picture in your world (portraits, interiors, settlements, enemies) is painted by an image model in an art style. You choose both when you create a world, and can change them later.

The four models

Model	Plans	Styles
Default	Every plan	Oil Painting, Modern Anime, Retro Anime (80s/90s), Adult Animation, Comic Book
BuddyMix	Hero	Stylized Anime
Krea 2	Hero	Art Book, Adult Animation, Graphic Novel, Dark Fantasy, Retro Anime, Shonen Manga, Shoujo Manga, Open Air
GPT Image	Hero	Oil Painting, Graphic Novel, Adult Animation, Modern Anime, Retro Anime (80s/90s)

The premium models cost more credits per image than Default. See Credit costs.

GPT Image has stricter content rules of its own and turns down some requests. You're refunded when it does.
BuddyMix uses tag-style prompts rather than sentences. The AI writes them that way for you. See Writing image prompts.

Styles that share a name across models ("Adult Animation", "Retro Anime") are tuned separately for each model, so they look a little different on each.

Changing later

Atlas → Settings → Art Model and Art Style.

Only new images change. Everything you've already made keeps its look. Regenerate the pictures you want in the new style.
Switching between a sentence-style model and BuddyMix resets the art style to that model's default.

Without Hero

Premium models are Hero-only. If a world is set to one (say, a community world you copied, or your own world after Hero ends), new images are painted with the Default model at the Default price instead. Existing images stay as they are.

Settlement templates

Template buildings come pre-painted in the Default model's five styles, whatever model your world uses. See Settlements, districts and regions.