Set permanent appearance with CPD and Face Details

Review scope: Linked public documentation checked October 30, 2026. Examples are proposed checks, not recorded OD results; use your account's current controls.

This lesson gives Mira a reusable physical description. Mira is a fictional 30-year-old adult archivist with warm brown skin, brown eyes, black shoulder-length braids, and a lean build. Her profession explains the story; it does not require a uniform or archive in every picture.

CPD means Custom Physical Details, an appearance field. CFD means Custom Face Details, available in some workflows. An image model is the selected generator. A preset is a ready-made selection that contributes instructions. A scene describes this particular picture.

1 Open the character appearance settings

For a new character, start at Create. For an existing character, open My AI, choose Mira, and locate Edit in the character's options. Find the appearance controls, including Custom Physical Details. The exact grouping can vary; do not put this lesson's text into Additional Personality Details merely because that field is easier to find.

Before replacing anything, copy Mira's existing appearance text into your notes. Record the selected model and relevant face, hair, and body presets. You need this record if a change makes the result worse.

2 Check the overlapping selections

Compare presets with the intended character. A blond-hair selection conflicts with black braids. Keep the closest useful selections and correct specific conflicts. Clearing every field is not a required installation step. The Known State workflow recommends a simple base and gradual changes. Appearance workflow

Check age separately where the editor provides an age field. Keep Mira's established age as 30. A written age does not guarantee a particular face.

3 Enter the permanent description

Paste this example into Custom Physical Details, replacing only the appearance block you intend to replace:

30-year-old adult woman, warm brown skin, brown eyes,
black shoulder-length braids, lean build

Leave her navy jacket, current pose, and archive out of this field. Those will belong to an individual scene.

If a realistic workflow also offers Custom Face Details, the Known State guide suggests beginning with the same focused appearance description in both fields. For this first comparison, use the same block. This is the guide's suggested starting workflow, not proof that both fields always have equal influence. If CFD is absent, continue with the fields actually available.

4 Save then request a simple comparison image

Use the editor's save control. Reopen the character if needed and confirm that your text remains.

Go to Generate, select Mira, and locate the custom scene prompt. Paste:

navy jacket over a cream shirt, standing with arms relaxed,
eye-level waist-up view, plain gray background, soft daylight

Check the selected model and displayed generation cost. Generate when ready. The target is Mira's visible identity in a simple scene, not a finished archive illustration.

5 Inspect before adding more details

Check skin tone, eye color where visible, braid length, and overall build. Keep the prompt and image together. If one feature is wrong, change that feature's wording or conflicting preset before changing the whole description.

Checkpoint: You can identify which text defines Mira permanently and which text requested the jacket and background. Nothing in the permanent block requires her to stand still or wear the same outfit forever.

Keep a withdrawn placement trick out of the baseline

An October 31, 2026 review of supplied community notes found an explicit correction: the guide's author withdrew the claim that moving all persistent features into a custom skin-tone field makes clothing cover them reliably. The author reports that other factors affected the initial examples and that later tests on clean characters contradicted the claim. The correction itself has no supplied date, and this library has not reproduced the trials.

Do not move scars, markings, jewelry, or makeup into skin tone as a universal visibility workaround. Use the actual appearance fields for their documented jobs, and inspect clothing coverage in the returned image. A stable feature and its visibility in a particular crop are different facts. An opaque sleeve can conceal a forearm marking; a request to preserve the marking does not require showing it through the sleeve.

If a character has deliberately authored alternate forms, record the current form and its visible features explicitly rather than combining every form into one permanent description. The current-form continuity module provides a planning method; it does not change native fields automatically.

Three common problems

1. Hair keeps changing: compare every active hair selection with the CPD. Correct a contradictory length or color, then repeat the same scene.
2. The jacket appears everywhere: search permanent appearance fields for clothing. Move the jacket instruction into the scene and save the correction.
3. The face changes after a large rewrite: restore your saved description. Make a smaller revision and compare with the accepted image instead of adopting the unwanted face.

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