Awww. Thank you for the kind words!

You've got to go a little looser on the reins with this than with most of my other models. In other words, one word can make big differences (good - and maybe not so good). So it can be tougher to dial in complex prompts, but it's excellent and taking any basic prompt and turning it into something fun. :)

Happy New Year to you (and everyone else who reads this!)

Xeno Engine (Art Style) is my first model and still one of my favorites, but it's at the point where it's bloated to the point where doing anything else to it makes it break. (As are the other two 5th Dimension and 6th Sense).

This one goes back to some of the more whimsical/easy prompting type sensibilities of those older models without pushing too hard toward any specific default style - but I'd not really call it a newer version or even a replacement for those. But it could definitely be considered a member of that "family" in how it works.

I'm not sure that answers your question very well, though. lol

I like this model a lot - it's fairly versatile, doesn't break too easily with complicated poses/settings, can be fairly easily pushed toward different art styles, it takes LoRas/Embeds really well (where the last XenoEngine ones need to back down a bit on the weights of LoRas because they're so heavy - and because I didn't know as much about merging when I made them), and performs REALLY well in low VRAM environments - especially if you use the LCM version.

It probably doesn't do "sex" as well as those others (though it does "sexy" just fine - I didn't get into any of the all out "porn" models in the merge). For sex with a style - XenTAI might be your option - I REALLY like that Western Look similar to XenoEngine Art Style - but with a lot more "action".

For portraits and freedom, this is probably the best choice of my recent models.

Keep in mind, also... just because a new release of something comes out - it doesn't necessarily "replace" the old ones. On my 5th Dimension Xeno Engine, for example, the 5th.1 has a more bright style - but 5th.0 is more freeform like this one... so different versions of the same model can be better for different things you're trying to do.

In the end though - the biggest difference in most models is what comes out when you aren't trying too hard. Most models will have similar outputs with complicated prompts since they all started with the same base training. Model merges like mine and others simply help you get to certain places in generation output without needing to prompt 40 tokens just to get to that starting point.