( Not my Model )

https://civitai.com/models/2045223?modelVersionId=2545517

About this version

- Implemented aesthetic finetuning from Snakebite 2.3
- Replaced VAE with Felldude/SDXL_NaturalSkin_VAE
- Reduced impact of a skin detail LoRA that was responsible for low face diversity
- Merged in a handful of style LoRAs that proved effective in Snakebite 2.4

Why it matters

bigASP has great prompt adherence but it is wildly inconsistent as far as style and composition. It feels like a base model with untapped potential. Dialing in the right settings is like trying to solve a Rubik's Cube.

Illustrious models, on the other hand, lose many concepts when going 3D. They're hit-or-miss even with fairly popular booru tags. But the lighting and composition of these weights are still 👌

I wanted to see if we can get the best of both worlds, and it turns out we kinda can! Careful block merging is the key. We can inject bigASP's output_blocks.0 to acquire much of its conceptual knowledge. Adding its middle_block.2 seems to reduce anatomical issues (otherwise, you'll get a lot of extra arms and fingers.)

First impressions

• Best prompt adherence for a realistic SDXL model I've ever seen. And no, not just for smut. (But especially for smut)

• Compatible with booru tags as well as natural language. I think a mixed prompt approach is best: I use about 70% tags (no underscores) and 30% natural language in a prompt.

• Understands bigASP's style tags to an extent, including stuff like masterpiece quality and 35mm .

• It feels like something new and worth exploring. Don't sleep on bigASP!

Drawbacks

• Illustrious 2.0 models support resolutions up to 1024x1440 or 1024x1536 without horrific stretching of anatomy (e.g. longcat-type torsos), but bigASP's optimal resolution is only 832x1216... and I don't recommend going above that in Snakebite. If you do, the anatomy will be mostly okay (which is surprising), but image composition becomes very odd and unpleasant.

• Since we're in a strange new latent space, your existing LoRAs won't work very well. But they're worth retraining.

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Recommended Settings

The Turbo variant is better for inference. It's super fast and has slightly improved aesthetics. The non-turbo version is useful for finetuning, and it can produce nice textures if you don't mind waiting 25+ steps.

Turbo

• 8 or 9 steps

• LCM sampler

• CFG 1

• Custom sigmas below, or simple