Best Practices for Writing Prompts to Generate Textures with AI

As a rule of thumb, the more detailed the prompt, the better — try crafting your prompts by incorporating phrases from the following buckets. Defining Styles & Types can drastically alter your generations while adding Adjectives and Environment can help you achieve more precise results. Do not feel constrained by these buckets, rather use this as a guide to help supplement your prompt creation.

Category

You need to define a base texture category first.

• E.g. Asphalt, Bark, Brick, Carpet, Ceramic, Cement, etc.

Styles & Types

Then describe precise variety, species or material of the base texture.

• E.g. Marble Types:* Calacatta, Emperador, Crema Marfil, Carrara, Breccia, etc.
• E.g. Species of Bark:* Spruce, Birch, Yew, Beech, Pine, Walnut, Oak, etc.

Adjectives

Add more descriptive qualities of the texture material(s).

• E.g. Condition:* Weathered, Stained, Damaged, Polished, Fine, New, etc.
• E.g. Surface:* Jagged, Debris, Bumpy, Corrugated, Symmetrical, Patterned, Smooth, Soft, etc.
• E.g. Color:* Multicolor, Dark, Light, Green, Orange, Red, etc.

Environment

Incorporating location or origin of the material could be helpful as well.

• E.g. Structure:* Mountain, Cliffside, Wall, Road, Floor, Pathway, etc.
• E.g. Biome:* Industrial, Forest, Desert, Tundra, Portuguese, Icelandic, etc.

Detail

Finish with additional quality descriptors.

• E.g. Close up, High definition, Fine detail, Realistic, Stylized, etc.

Examples of good prompt

"Dark black brick wall, tar coated, glossy, urban setting, repeating offset pattern, close up high definition"

"Frieze patterned loop cut carpet, multicolored, soft and voluminous material, extreme fine detail"

"Protruded canyon sandstone cliff, jagged rocky surface, eroded, dry and dusty, rendered in unreal engine"