parameters — --sw and --sv
Style weight is a volume knob, and 24 of 24 prove it
--sw without --sref does nothing at all. Twenty-four prompts here use it and every one of them carries a style code, which tells you exactly what kind of parameter it is.
--sw and --sv are the two least-explained parameters in common use, partly because they are meaningless on their own. They do not describe your image. They describe how a style reference is applied to it.
The collection makes that unusually easy to demonstrate.
- 24prompts set --sw or --sv
- 24of those also carry a --sref
- 100%co-occurrence, no exceptions
- 4distinct style weights in use
Twenty-four out of twenty-four. Not a tendency — a definition. If you put --sw 500 in a prompt with no style reference, you have set the volume on something that is not playing.
--sw: how loudly the reference speaks
Style weight runs 0–1000, defaulting to 100. Low values let your description lead and the reference tint; high values let the reference dominate and your description merely name a subject. The values in use here cluster, and each cluster is one working setup:
| --sw | --sv | Images | What it is doing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 80 | — | 6 | reference as a light tint, on --niji 6 |
| 500 | — | 4 | reference and description roughly equal |
| 800 | 6 | 2 | reference leads |
| 1000 | 6 | 2 | reference dominates, description names a subject |
| — | 4 | 10 | no weight set, older style algorithm |
Low weight: a tint
The six images at --sw 80 are the --niji 6 set. Eighty is well below the default of 100, so the style code is deliberately being held back — it colours the result without taking it over, which is what you want when the model itself already has a strong aesthetic.
Four images on --sref 4114080079 at --sw 80. The reference is present but the niji illustration style is still clearly the dominant voice.
abandoned village --niji 6 --stylize 250 --sw 80 --sref 4114080079 --profile obus7c1
The description there is two words — abandoned village. At --sw 80 those two words still steer the picture, because the reference is turned down far enough to leave room.
High weight: the description becomes a label
At the other end, two images run --sw 1000 — the maximum. Their descriptions are a single word each: wellness. Both of them. Same word, same parameters, two different pictures:
Both prompts are the word "wellness" with an identical parameter tail. At maximum style weight the reference decides nearly everything and the description is barely more than a category.
wellness --ar 4:5 --v 7 --raw --sw 1000 --sv 6 --sref 1794055294 --s 400
--sv: which style algorithm
--sv is style version — which generation of the style-reference system interprets your code. It is not a quality setting; a code found under one style version does not necessarily mean the same thing under another.
Ten images here set --sv 4 and no --sw at all, and four set --sv 6 together with a high weight. All fourteen carry a style code, consistent with everything above.
The practical rule is the same as for model versions: if you are recording a style code you want to use again, record the style version with it. A bare number is not a reference — a number plus the system that reads it is.
Using them
- Never set them without a
--sref. They have nothing to act on. Twenty-four out of twenty-four here agree. - Start at the default and move once. Reference too weak, raise; description getting steamrollered, lower.
- Below 100 is a tint, above 500 is a takeover. That is the practical shape of the range in this collection.
- Copy
--sw,--svand--stylizetogether with any code you borrow. Each of them changes what the code does.