For the first part of the article you can refer to this link
B. Hidden Object Elements
Use Case: Produce hundreds of discoverable objects that fit each theme and are easy to batch-generate.
How to use Layer:
Use one of your environment assets that you generated in Prompt Edit with using a prompt.
Example prompt :: “create a 4x4 (can vary) small item sheet from this environment”
Living Room
Bathroom
2. Use batch generation to rapidly produce prop variations (size, angle, lighting).
Example Prompt: create new bathroom items suitable for an antique victorian bathroom setting, use the same format
Example Prompt: create a living room themed items in the same format
Example Prompt : render these items in Christmas theme
3. Render the items solo by specifying the item you want in your prompt.
Example Prompt: render the table solo and make the background beige.
4. Use the same prompt for any asset.
5. Batch edit assets by using them in Prompt Edit. You can upload up to 10 images.
Prompt: Make the assets halloween themed
Prompt: Make the assets Easter themed
Prompt: make the assets blue-green themed
6. Favorite outputs using Favorites option in sessions, you can filter them under activity feed also for tracking and reuse.
C. UI & Gameplay Elements
Use Case: Design interface and interaction elements that feel immersive yet functional.
How to use Layer:
Generate UI prototype using Prompt edit.
Main Menu UI
Prompt : add a mobile game UI title screen suitable for the hidden object mobile game, make the UI elements with brass golden outline, make the title " Casebook: Murder at Evermere Manor`' and make a brass background for the title
2. Load Screen
Prompt : create a loading screen for this game, remove the title, create a new scene including a closeup to a victorian table with a magnifying glass and letters
3. Inventory UI
Prompt : create a brass golden ornate outlined inventory UI over this game scene and make it rectangular and place it at the bottom of the screen, put the puzzle solving items into the UI boxes, add a backpack icon to the left of the inventory box and put a magnifying glass icon to the right side
Tip: separate the UI elements afterwards and get individual renders and do a Remove Background or Download Without Background.
Tip: Maintain consistency via Templates (e.g., Button Set, HUD Pack) with one reference image provided.
Prompt : create a button 4x4 set for a hidden object mobile game related to this UI, create the start logo, pause logo, resume logo, back logo, exit logo, home logo, main menu logo, settings logo, save logo, load logo and continue logo
Use Batch Editor to recolor or localize multiple UI items at once.
Prompt : make these UI buttons green and red themed
Prompt : Remove the text
Use batch retheme template to add christmas theme (live ops focus)
Prompt : make the UI Christmas themed
Prompt : make a Christmas themed pop up UI box suitable for a hidden object game
Prompt : make a Easter themed pop up UI box suitable for a hidden object game
D. Characters & Narrative Illustrations
Use Case: Bring stories and scenes to life with expressive, style-aligned character art.
How to use Layer:
Train or upload custom LoRA models for recurring characters.
Create new characters using the style in 2D Forge with a prompt
Hint : Setting up an art style description as Suffix in the style settings can help with art style consistency.
Prompt: Wealthy merchant’s wife, plump, rosy cheeks, jewelled gown, holding a small purse, standing gracefully. Art style is a full-body portrait of a character in a semi-realistic digital art style, slightly stylized but with realistic proportions and anatomy. Smooth, soft shading with subtle highlights and shadows, creating volume and depth. Clean edges without harsh outlines. Rich, natural color palette with harmonious tones, realistic skin textures and fabric details. Clothing has visible textures and folds, accurate material representation (silk, wool, cotton). Character poses are natural and confident, facial expression subtle and approachable. Background plain white or minimal to focus on the character. Polished and professional look, suitable for game or concept art character sheet.
Generate a character portrait using Prompt Edit.
Prompt: Render this character in a close up portrait shot.
Create a character with various facial expressions.
Prompt: change her expressions to angry / sad / laughing / tired / mischievous
Use image-to-image to create outfit or pose changes.
Prompt: replace the gown with the reference outfit
Create the character in various poses and environments
Prompt: create this character
holding a notebook and jotting down observations in a cluttered ancient mansion environment
kneeling to examine a clue on the ground in a cluttered ancient mansion environment
leaning over a crime scene marker with a flashlight in an ancient mansion environment
Combine characters with scene backdrops for story cut-ins or visual novel moments by using the characters as reference.
Prompt: create these characters together in an ancient mansion and make the female detective character and the blonde detective character lean forward on a metal interrogation table, interrogating the male suspect with the velvet suit
Prompt: create these characters together
- in an ancient mansion scene, investigating the house and examining the clues together
- in an ancient mansions cluttered back garden scene, holding a notebook and jotting down observations
- in an ancient mansion and make the female character and the blonde guy lean forward on a metal interrogation table, interrogating the male suspect with the velvet suit
