Welcome!
Thanks for checking out my latest project! I spent a lot of time over the last week or two testing out possible updates for one of my other models. I ended up getting sidetracked, and "accidentally" created something that I thought turned out really well. As they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If you try it out, please feel free to post your results and let me know what you think!
If you haven't used my merges before, my focus has been creating models that I really like the style of "out of the box", without needing to tweak the visuals with tons of LoRA or TIs. This model puts out some really nice looking 3d/realistic-ish images. It also carries a lot of the understanding of characters, creatures, etc baked into Pony.
All sample images were generated with no LoRA or TI. I use Adetailer and Hires.fix on all of my gallery images. Faces still generally look OK without Adetailer, but I recommend using it if possible.
If you are new to Pony, here are some tips:
Scoring - Use score_9, score_8_up, score_7_up, score_6_up, score_5_up in your positive prompt instead of SD1.5/SDXL quality tags. I have personally found that my images have much lower chance of frying if I keep the tokens below 200 (I usually shoot for under 150 when possible).
My base negative prompt looks like this:
score_1, score_2, score_3, score_4, score_5, score_6, watermark, text, signature, logo, monochrome, muscular, censored, ugly
Or use Zovya's Tis that do this for you with fewer keystrokes:
https://civitai.com/models/332646/pony-pdxl-negative-embeddings
You can also use some of the baked in sources and content ratings to control the kind of output you get:
Sources - 'source_pony', 'source_furry', 'source_cartoon' and 'source_anime'
Ratings - 'rating_safe', 'rating_questionable' and 'rating_explicit'
My Usual Settings / Other Tested Options:
Sampler -DPM++ 2M SDE Karras / Restart / Euler A
Steps - 30--50 (30 for fast gens to test ideas, 50 for things I may save/post)
Resolution -896x1152, 832x1216 (or flip for landscape)
Hires.fix:
Upscaler - Ultramix_balanced, 4x_Ultrasharp
Steps - 15 or 20
Denoise -.3-.4
Upscale by - 1.5 - 2.0
Lastly, I'd like to thank the following amazing creators for their work on some of the components I used in this merge - Anzhc, insertusername, DucHaiten, and CitronLegacy!
