<h3 id="heading-1267">New in V3</h3>Version 3 could be seen as a step down in intensity from Version 2, but this is intentional for consistency, and for better organic details, like hands (there is also a way to turn it back up to 11, which I will explain in the next paragraph). Citadel V3 is a bit different under the hood, but more importantly, a lot of careful tuning went into getting something that will provide you with more reliable results.Additionally, I have published the LORA that I created to give Citadel its look. It is called <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/314647/citadel-spices">Citadel Spices</a>. You can use the LORA to turn your favorite model into a Citadel-like hybrid, but you can also use it as a modular tool in Citadel V3, to turn up or down the intensity like a potentiometer. Fingers diarrheaing everywhere uncontrollably? Try setting Citadel Spices to a negative value, like -0.3. The LORA is baked into the model at a value of 1, so -1 will completely remove it, and anything over 0 will intensify it. And, of course, anything over 1 will greatly intensify it.<h2 id="heading-3046">The Intent</h2>To be a fun artistic model that has some flexibility and excels at making girls. This is the base model for my stylized "<a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/231752/citadel-eclipse">Citadel Eclipse</a>" model. You will find a hint of fantasy sprinkled in here and there.<h2 id="heading-3047">The Truth</h2>It is not for everything but has a moderate amount of flexibility if you ask it nicely. It loves girls, though, and even insists on making them at times (nsfw or sfw). Additionally, success with hands is a die roll (but much better in V3). Bumping the CFG scale up or (primarily) down one or two points can work miracles on details that you may not be happy with.<h2 id="heading-3048">The Details</h2>The vae is no longer baked in on V2 and V3. <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/23906?modelVersionId=28569">kl-f8-anime2</a> is my favorite and gives it nice details and contrast, but <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/76118/vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned">vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned</a> can be a tad bit smoother.It works well with pretty standard settings.I generally generated my images thusly:sampling method: DPM++ 2M Karras or DPM++ SDE Karrasclip skip: 2512x912 or 512x768cfg scale: 7 or 6sampling steps: 30 or 40Hires.fix:Upscale: x2Hires steps: 15Denoising strength: 0.45 or 0.4Upscaler: <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/116225/4x-ultrasharp">4x-UltraSharp</a>My favorite negative embeddings for this are as follows:<a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/72437?modelVersionId=77169">BadDream</a><a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/71961?modelVersionId=94057">FastNegativeV2</a><a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/100191?modelVersionId=107234">EasyNegativeV2</a><a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/116230?modelVersionId=125849">bad-hands-5</a><a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/16993/badhandv4-animeillustdiffusion">badhandv4</a>Thanks for taking the time to check it out!

Citadel

A similar core to v1.0 but with a bit more carefully curated spice sprinkled into the stew. It has a touch more fantasy.

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