NuRay is a coalesced melting pot of several of my prior model merge families, which has once more outpaced its various component models. Drawing primarily from SteinIllustrious NuRay, this one carries the torch forward for that particular experiment, featuring a wide variety of capabilities, which I have attempted to capture across my sample images and their included prompts. This merge family will primarily be made up of a wider collection of experimental models resulting the features in the ForgeUI extensions Merge Block Weighted and SuperMerger, which I have begun using to draw out the potential of my older models and combinations of them. These models may be similar to each other, or may fall outside my preferred 'incremental' improvement method if they don't really fit anywhere else. Suggested settings: DDPM sampler, 36-50 steps, CFG scale of 4.5-6, Align Your Steps GITS scheduler. If your UI does not have these, Euler A produces similar, but less creative, results, as will other schedulers. A basic VAE should be baked in, but you can use any SDXL/Illustrious VAE that you prefer.

NuRay

Initial upload. No early access nonsense, as always.

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