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✨v2.3 ULTRA is a distinct variant of the standard v2.3.
While it technically improves overall output, my intention is to treat this version as experimental, exploring potential directions for future updates.
This release brings more natural and balanced lighting (also darkness), enhanced skin detail and an increased realism.
If you're using this model for Furry or Fur-based prompts, make sure to use the "Furry" trigger, or pair it with my Fur Enhancer LoRA for best results.

v2.3: (Latest) ✨
v2.2:
I have written an article that explains and provides some useful resources to help you achieve great generation results. You can check it out for detailed insights and recommendations.
🔁 Samplers
DPM++ 2M SDE Karras
DPM++ 2S a Karras
DPM++ SDE Karras
DPM++ 2M SDE Exponential
DPM2 a
DPM++ 2S a
DPM++ 3M *
Euler A
⚙️ Generation Settings
Steps: 30 or more
CFG Scale: 6–7
Clip Skip: 2
Resolution: Greater than 1024px
🗒️ Notes
Use Danbooru tags
Keep individual prompt weights ≤ 1.5
Use "female/male" instead of "woman/man" for better tagging compatibility
🖋️ Prompt Style
Positive Prompt Tags:
score_9,score_8_up,score_7_up,BREAKNegative Prompt Tags:
score_4,score_5,score_6
⚠️ Avoid DPM++ 2M Karras (Not recommended for generation)
✅ Recommended Samplers
Euler A
DPM2 A (Best for detail)

Read the following article for tips and my training preset
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This is a step in the right direction but it has all but removed any sort of facial and body variation which SDXL/Pony are good at. Even with Adetailer you get the same girl from SD1.5 popping up everywhere.
However it looks incredible and even when trying it is difficult to produce errors and distortion with the model, so it's stable, but lacks a lot of persona variety.
Yeah, it's hard training faces for Pony in realism while still maintaining its flexibility. Currently, I'm working on enhancing realism and quality without compromising flexibility.
In future updates, I plan to prioritize adding more variety to faces.
In the meantime, you can try using the wildcard linked in the description or provide detailed prompts for specific facial features.
Thanks for the feedback :)
I found that if you use adetailer with a 1.5 model such as JernauMix or RealCartoon-Realistic paired with a realistic embedding/LoRA of a person (real person or not real) it does a far better job of capturing the likeness of different faces to get rid of the generic 1.5 face. Just be sure to change the adetailer ckpt model to one of the ones I listed previously and make a separate prompt in adetailer with the person embedding/LoRA you want to use, Then add all of the improvement words such as "best quality," detail words, skin tone, makeup words, etc. that you used in your main prompt and any other words that you want to add to change things up. Keep negatives and all the other settings the same. I recommend doing this in A1111 through inpainting. I personally get better results that way.
Are you having problems generating different faces in version 1.1 or are you using other versions?
@ZyloO If you’re talking to me I haven’t had the chance to test it yet but I will tonight and let you know 👍 Thanks for sharing your model!
try my pony-model ;) (and oc you could call the nationality, european, asian, ...)
you can try my "better face model v3"
and if you want real REAL good small faces as simple read my article
https://civitai.com/articles/5002/face-swap-with-adetailer-and-reactor
@sevenof9247 I tried your lora but imo faces get even more of the same, and the article is just a faceswap, so it does not solve the problem with face variety
@ZyloO ... you get not a new face with my lora if you call a specific nationality ?
and faceswap, yes you must choose every image a new face.
i dont work with ComfyUI, but there iam shure you can create some kind of random nationality every image ...
but maybe SD3 is better on that ;)
@sevenof9247 yeah you can get variety in faces in my model too typing the nationality, I use this in a wildcard, but even so you can see the subtle familiarity between faces. maybe is a limitation on Pony when it comes to achive realism, at the end of the day it was trained with anime
And even tho faceswap in an alternatvie, I prefer using controlnet in reference with some input faces
Please also add MALE face variety in future updates. Thanks!
Can this Pony model do male anatomy or is it girls only?
Yes it can do male anatomy too
@ZyloO Amazing to hear thank you, I'm always hesitant to download big models like this but I'll grab this one in that case! :)
it can't do any m2m scenes
@julianarestrepo Not perfect, but it can
Good looking renders, BUT, it does seems to be stuck on a singular face shape with a lot of Lora models, maybe needs to be trained with different face shapes.
It takes a lot to get it to the right faces.
Yeah, I will focus on restoring face variety for next update
That's a problem with a lot of pony models sadly
Did you add source_western, source_comic yourself? Those do not exist in base Pony. Neither does "source _real".
source_real is trained for this model, the rest are some recommended I have seen so far
I get the error "AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'is_sdxl'" when attempting to load this model. All other models work great.
me too...
I think it's really good. I have a problem with men. Men get very small eyes on a1111 and I can't fix it. Do you have a tip for me?
try "realistic-eyes" (hyphen is important!) in positive. should fix your issue easily
@themancalledmojo999 Oh thanks. I will try it :)
Good job. I see you are going to work on more face variety which is definately needed. Please please please also add MALE, MEN face variety, not only focus on women (like 99% here do)
Thanks
Yeah I will try it
gayyyyy
Yeah, we definitely need more facial features than that one and only poor man's Chloe Grace Moretz face that plagues every pony model.
Protip: Dreamshaper XL makes a great refiner for this model.
any version of DreamshaperXL you like in particular? or just newest?
@Lyser “v2.1 Turbo” should do you right.
@sdvww1110wpww223 what's your settings for the refiner and for this model steps/sampler wise?
@BobTheBurner
Based on the reactions to my posts, this seems to work well: Steps: 45, Sampler: DPM++ 3M SDE Exponential, CFG: 4 - Refiner switch (dreamshaperXL_v21TurboDPMSDE): 0.6-0.7. ADetailer with `mediapipe_face_mesh_eyes_only` can be helpful depending on how the model feels for a particular generation.
clip skip 2 and low denoise make this great for inpainting
Just want to point out that ControlNet OpenPose with TencentARC's model work really well with this.
whats tencentarc?
It's a good model, but tends to overdo the "amateur film grain" effect. Also, doesn't seem to like to adhere to unnatural hair colors.
Thanks! Really love this checkpoint - do have a couple of problems though. Can't seem to generate Asian faces with this and using any source prompts result in oversaturated 2D images instead
Getting asian faces are harder due to the same face similarity problem Im trying to get rid off, but in my tests it does not create saturated 2D images.
Can you sare your prompt so I can test it?
@ZyloO I'm using the same prompts in the samples provided here and getting the oversaturated images. I have to remove BREAK or reduce the tokens to below 75
Looks good! it would be awesome if you allowed on-site gens though! :) haha
It is not up to me, Civitai has to incorporate it, it has the "Use on Civitai generation service" activated.
@ZyloO Ohhh I thought it was a Lora at first glance lol. D'oh!
Is there a specific adetailer you recommend?
I use Face Full/Short
Sorry, where "score_1, score_2, score_3" is from? What it is?
Thats how tags work on Pony models:
https://civitai.com/articles/4248
Oh, @ZyloO , thx man. I didn't know that Pony is a different thing. Through that this is just SD XL. Good to know.
@ZyloO "Oh, and one more important note - these tags are less useful in negatives as you can only go as low as 4 and ideally we should train on quality all the way down to 1, but it makes the training significantly more expensive. So you can still use score_4/5 in negative but they will not push you away from really bad images."
Since the Pony model was never trained on score 1, 2, and 3, using them in the prompt shouldn't make much of a difference. I'd recommend running an experiment on this to confirm.
@GordoLivingstone Going to start testing that, thanks :)
amazing, thank you!
new version is great, using MKLAN Pony as refiner gives super realistic picture (strength 0,4-0,8)
You mean these?
https://civitai.com/models/330790
Which version are you using?
@2buckchuck yes thats the model, I use the 23.5Plus, the new one works also but older is a bit better me thinks :)
@megaderp thanks for confirming! I'm definitely getting superior images with mklan235plusxxx as a refiner. I need to figure out how to mitigate the slowdown of switching models - I think adetailer is the bottleneck.
For anyone looking for more skin realism I recommend 'low' hires upscaling (to 1.1) using 1x-ITF-SkinDiffDetail-Lite-v1, then following your usual upscaling method with that output.
Kudos on v2 - amazing even without a refiner.
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