What started as an experiment on applying the strategies I used with Hyphoria and Hyphoria Real on Illustrious, I ended up with something quite interesting and much more than the sum of its parts.
My goal originally was to see if I could mix together a model that could look realistic and have baked in NSFW capabilities using models available today. No one NSFW lora really provided everything and had tradeoffs and the amount of realism provided varied quite a bit between trained checkpoints and realism loras.
My merging process somehow made something that was more real than I expected or planned and so I refined that to improve its promptable capabilities as well as what NSFW it could support out of the box.
I merged Jib Mix Qwen with White Qwen and then too many loras on top. My merging process allows me to do this cleanly that you'd otherwise have broken output if you did it normally. It does come with tradeoffs in that not everything is always merged how you expect so it required extensive testing from myself and some community members to get a feel for something that worked well.
It was obvious I needed to do some fine tuning myself, training on specific objectives to help refine some areas that the model was annoying to use, specifically around nudity and nipples/genitals rendering through clothes. This can still happen but it is much less frequent and usually tied to something specifically you are prompting. A prompt guide is soon to follow.
Settings I use:
Base Generation
Sampler: res_3s
Scheduler: bong_tangent
Steps: varies (8-12)
CFG: always 1
Lightning 8-step strength: 0.5-0.55
Hires (Latent Upscale)
Sampler: res_2s
Scheduler: bong_tangent
Steps: varies (6-12)
CFG: always 1
Lightning 8-step strength: 0.4-0.5
I use the lightning v2 8 step lora, you can use 4 step or no lightning lora if you want but the values to use are highly depending on what you want.
All my image should have workflows embedded, I will be publishing a more refined version ASAP.