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    Hi, you might think this VAE is unnecessary, since the model has a banked VAE and works well with a CFG scale of 1, but it can be improved, right? ~ 7w7)/

    So... I only tried improving the contrast with low CFGs in Utopia. Honestly, I haven't tried it with other control points, but at least it looks good with a CFG scale of 1.

    However, the Lora DMD2 does the same thing as this VAE but a thousand times better, although if you use them together you'll be in for a surprise ~ n.n)/

    1 CFG Scale: dmd2 + vae


    Thanks so much for your support! ♥

    Description

    Positive prompt: hdr:2.5

    Negative prompt: flat color:2.5

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    Comments (5)

    qekAug 8, 2025· 1 reaction
    CivitAI

    Optimized and Color appear to be the same (0% different) Maybe, you should only keep one version since it's enough good

    Herrscher_AGGA
    Author
    Aug 8, 2025

    Yes, I guess I'll just leave it optimized, although I already hit delete color, but it doesn't delete itself so I'll leave it there (it could be the cache).

    qekAug 9, 2025

    Herrscher_AGGA ok

    StreamTabulousAug 31, 2025· 1 reaction
    CivitAI

    fantastic had issues with some models not working with stock or even there inbuilt vaes this fixes them.

    Herrscher_AGGA
    Author
    Sep 5, 2025

    I'm glad it works for you n.n)/

    VAE
    SDXL 1.0

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    Platform
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    Platform Status
    Available
    Created
    8/8/2025
    Updated
    5/3/2026
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