Particle-Accelerated Mix (Illustrious)

The goal was to make LHC more user friendly, by introducing a base style, while keeping the character knowledge of LHC in tact. As such, no artist tags are needed for a consistent style. The components and method used for merging can be found in the version details.

v2

Using artists is not only not necessary, but tends to produce worse results, so it is in general not recommended.

v1

Using artists is not necessary, but can still be used to some extend in my experience

Recommended settings:

Sampler/scheduler: dpm++ 2m / karras

CFG: 5-6

Steps: 30

Positive Prompt: add "masterpiece, best quality, amazing quality," at the end of your prompt

Negative Prompt: "lowres, (worst quality, bad quality:1.2), bad anatomy, sketch, jpeg artifacts, signature, watermark,"

Creating your own mix

If you are interested in transferring the character knowledge of LHC onto a different base model, you can check out this article https://civitai.com/articles/11887.