Generate AI variants

You spent two days drawing the perfect cyberpunk samurai. Now your art director wants to see what they'd look like in ice armor. Or your game-jam team needs five enemy variants by Sunday. Or you just want to try a different palette.

Click _Generate 5_ in the Variants section of the right rail. Charios uses Vertex AI's Gemini and Imagen models to regenerate every layer of your character in five different styles — keeping the same silhouette, the same rig, the same animation. About 30 seconds, five fresh looks.

How it works

1. Click Generate 5. Five curated style requests fire in parallel — they rotate through buckets like cyberpunk, ice crystal, gold trim, oil painting, neon outline.
2. Per style, Gemini expands the request into a full character prompt (silhouette, palette, fabric, weapon style).
3. Per layer, Imagen regenerates the layer's PNG to match the prompt — same aspect ratio, same silhouette as the original.
4. Each result is cached as a complete spritesheet. The thumbnail you see on the variant card is composited from the regenerated layers.
5. Click a card to apply: every sprite's texture swaps in place. The layer attachments and animations stay exactly where they were.

Custom prompts

Want a specific style? Click + ADD next to Variants and type a free-text prompt — "cyberpunk samurai with gold trim", "ice elemental with crystal armor", anything. Same pipeline, single style. The new card appears next to the others.

Applying and reverting

Clicking a variant card applies it instantly. The animation keeps playing throughout — your character changes outfits without missing a frame. Hit ⌘ + Z to undo and the original textures swap back. The ORIGINAL card is always pinned at the start of the gallery, so a one-click restore is always available.

Don't like one part?

If you applied a variant but don't like, say, the head — open Regenerate a single layer. You can target individual layers without redoing the whole character.

Plan limits

• Free — variants are not included.
• Pro — 50 generations per month (one Generate 5 click = 5 generations).
• Team — unlimited.
• Lifetime — unlimited.

Quotas reset on the first of the month. See Plans & what each one unlocks.