Cold Nuka Cola

"we are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours."

-John of Salisbury Metalogicon 1159

All credit in this merge belongs to someone else, they made all these ingredients, I only mixed them. If this merge is stepping on anyones toes, Let me know and I'll fix it or pull it, Thanks to all that came before for the hard work making these amazing building blocks!

So Here is my personal merge that I've been working on. It's primary use is to form a bridge between 2d anime lora concepts and characters and bring them into realism. I'm enjoying how extremely versatile it has become. Have fun with it, it should be shared.

It really shines on the little things, as the realism models want to normalize everything. This model is aimed at trying to better keep odd proportions, strange hair, more of the cartoonish features, outlandish backgrounds and then skinning it in realism, without trying as hard to make it real world.

It has some of the same issues any 1.5 has, but is reasonably competant at feet and hands, competant at SFW & NSFW. handles realism very well, and also can be fantastical, creative and surreal.

It will still do 2D (poorly) if prompted.

It's become my all-purpose base. If you like it, rate it, post some pictures so it gets seen, experiment with it. I honestly can't wait to see what others can do with it, and learn some things.

How it's made:

It started with a super-rando (I'm guessing here based on a name alone) Chilloutmix/NAI variant I picked up on huggingface, which worked Ok

that was merged into Noosphere V3: https://civitai.com/models/36538?modelVersionId=107675

...An Amazing standalone Ckpt, which gave it some fantasy elements, and better realism

then merged again with CoharuMix_real which gave it a better depth of anime concepts without bugging out the realism. find it here:

https://civitai.com/models/198114?modelVersionId=244531

How I use it:

It works fine as a stand alone all purpose, It's the daily driver of my models, it isn't always the best at anything, but just gets the job done with about anything you want to do.

for complex anime concepts it can't quite tackle, i'll start a gen with a pure anime ckpt at high step count (70-80 steps) , then put coldnukacola into the refiner at 30-60% of the way through and let it finish the seed started in pure anime.

I often then use epiCPhotogasm-LastUnicorn as a HiResFix pass, to photo finish the realism (~31 steps at ~.31 cfg is my baseline)

Another amazing ckpt here:

https://civitai.com/models/132632?modelVersionId=223670

for faces, in the aDetailer, I'll use epiCphoto for photo realism, and/or Lyriel-v1.2 or other Lyriel variant if I want a more fantasy smoothed perfect-y appearance. try them both out

https://civitai.com/models/22922?modelVersionId=27791

Prompt suggestions:

Simple prompts are more creative, so I tend to add more of these as I close in on a seed I like, or start to img-img at low denoiseing

POS:

((ultra-HD-details)) <---favorite short prompt ((thanks to user stapfschuh for this tip, go read his articles on prompting: https://civitai.com/user/stapfschuh))

((detailed amazing hyper_detailed, absurdres, photo, masterpiece))

((8k award winning, best quality)) <-----remove the words "award winning" if you get people holding trophies or weird objects in hand

((detailed healthy skin, textures, pores, tones, creases, folds))

RAW photo, 8k uhd, soft lighting, high quality, film grain, Fujifilm XT3

NEG:

((framed painting, stick figure, clip-art graphic, random noisy patterns, abstract:1.5)) <-----this is the result of doing the x/y/z plot -7 cfg trick, to produce images that the model sees as the opposite of your common prompts, looking for patterns, and putting them in negative. inputting this will push it towards realism and result in a cleaner, crisper, less steps gen.

adding: ((denim man, overalls, skull mask, painting, lawn objects, sphere, forest park landscape:1.2)) to anything epiCPhotogasm touches will have the same result, just remove anything that you are going for directly, but for portraits and people in general this is my base

other negs I use...

(asian:1.2) <---This model tends towards asian features, add this if thats not what you want

(worst quality:2), (low quality:2), (monochrome), (((unprofessional-bodies, disproportionate body:1.3))) ((bad picture)) (extra hands, extra arms)) ((boring monotone dull background)) lowres, watermark, ((Mutations:1.2)) ((unrealistic, unreal, cartoon, anime, 2.5D CGI)) ((ugly, bad hands)) ((censored, censoring, fuzzy, blurry)) disproportionate, artifacts, inaccurate, fat, pregnant, cropped, out of frame, bad hands, bad face, fat, chubby, rolls, muscular, anorexic, washed out, dehydrated, greyscale, blemishes, unattractive, boring, lame, distorted, horror, caricature, body mutant, ((badhands, fused warped fingers)) unappealing, pixelated, uninspiring, ((road, car, man))

Lastly in no particular order, tools that play nice or that I use all the time.

Show them some love, like them, heart them, tip them, buy them coffee, tell them their hair looks nice today, send them golden bars in the mail.

AloeVera's - Thiccness slider

https://civitai.com/models/242361?modelVersionId=273458

LowRA-OFFSET NOISE

https://civitai.com/models/221845/lowra-offset-noise

Hand Fine Tuning <---use at .1 or .2 to help a bit with hands

https://civitai.com/models/278497?modelVersionId=313714

Colorfulness Slider LECO

https://civitai.com/models/328369/colorfulness-slider-leco

True Rim light, glow glossy skin. <-----amazing at adding subtle lighting detail at .1 to .3

https://civitai.com/models/238368/true-rim-light-glow-glossy-skin-3-in-1

there are many amazing generalized negative embeddings that help, use what you like. I get benefits from both anime and realism embeddings in different situations

Same with VAE

https://civitai.com/models/70248/color101-vae

https://civitai.com/models/118561?modelVersionId=131654

NSFW better bits:

https://civitai.com/models/112299/labiaplasty-innie-pussy-adjuster-sd15-sdxl

https://civitai.com/models/174289/creamy-pies <---------These two together both at .3 is the best I've found...needs adjusting depending, but thats a decent baseline. prompt for success. works well with aDetailer + epiC or Coldnukacola

Legal stuff: I did not make any of this, please check all permissions with the people that made these ingredients, follow the laws, do what Jiminy Cricket would tell you to do. always assume your AI is loaded and keep it pointed in a safe direction. Don't use these tools for illegal or immoral purposes.