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    šŸ’š for Updates - I would love to see your reviews and images of this model, feel free to post them below!

    Pathfinder branches from Maverick's flexibility fusing in Nu Element and other resources to further expand on expressive fantasy elements along with a stronger cartoon/animation styling. This model offers a wide range of creativity from flat 2D styles, anime/illustration, cartoon/animation, semi-realistic styles + more. I would love to see the styles you come up with!

    šŸ’” This model is currently somewhat of an experimental project.


    Recommended Use

    There is a lot of variation in parameters for what works. Be aware on the styling you're choosing and use what you find best. The example images, gallery sections, and the quick start below are good starting points.

    ~20 steps, 7 scale, ~0.3-0.5 denoising, clip skip 1 or 2

    Disclaimer

    This model(s) may output NSFW content unintentionally depending on parameters used. Make sure you tailor your prompts accordingly. For example "nsfw" in the negative prompt.
    
    The purpose of sharing this model is not to showcase obscene material in a public forum. The use of this learning model is entirely at the discretion of the user, and they have the freedom to choose whether or not to create SFW or NSFW content. The decision of whether to engage with SFW or NSFW content lies with the user and their own personal preferences. The ai model(s) do not contain explicit visual content that can be accessed easily.


    Example Images used

    • vae-ft-ema-560000-ema vae

    • 4x-UltraSharp or R-ESRGAN 4x+ Anime6B upscalers

    • hires fix w/ some upscaled again using SD upscale

    • use old karras scheduler signmas (0.1 to 10) compatibility setting

    • any LoRa use should be listed in the image metadata

    • Bad_v2 negative embedding renamed should be the same as bad_prompt_version2

    • EasyNegative and badhandv4 negative embeddings were also used

    *Negative embeddings are optional


    Resources

    This model merge (v1) used the following resources - all of these are great stand-alone, props to each creator.

    šŸ“ These should be the correct resources used. A detailed recipe may go up on a Hugging Face page in the future.


    License & Use

    This model is open access and available to all, with a modified CreativeML OpenRAIL-M license further specifying rights and usage.

    1. You can't use the model to deliberately produce nor share illegal or harmful outputs or content.
    
    2. The authors claims no rights on the outputs you generate, you are free to use them and are accountable for their use which must not go against the provisions set in the license.
    
    3. You may re-distribute the weights. If you do, please be aware you have to include the same use restrictions as the ones in the license and share a copy of the modified CreativeML OpenRAIL-M to all your users (please read the license entirely and carefully).

    Please read the full license(s) Stable Diffusion and Dreamlike Diffusion 1.0.

    Note: this model should be able to be updated to not include the Dreamlike Diffusion licensing fairly simply. I may do so in the future.

    Use Restrictions

    You agree not to use the Model or Derivatives of the Model:
    - In any way that violates any applicable national, federal, state, local or international law or regulation
    - For the purpose of exploiting, harming or attempting to exploit or harm minors in any way
    - To generate or disseminate verifiably false information and/or content with the purpose of harming others
    - To generate or disseminate personal identifiable information that can be used to harm an individual
    - To defame, disparage or otherwise harass others
    - For fully automated decision making that adversely impacts an individual’s legal rights or otherwise creates or modifies a binding, enforceable obligation
    - For any use intended to or which has the effect of discriminating against or harming individuals or groups based on online or offline social behavior or known or predicted personal or personality characteristics
    - To exploit any of the vulnerabilities of a specific group of persons based on their age, social, physical or mental characteristics, in order to materially distort the behavior of a person pertaining to that group in a manner that causes or is likely to cause that person or another person physical or psychological harm
    - For any use intended to or which has the effect of discriminating against individuals or groups based on legally protected characteristics or categories
    - To provide medical advice and medical results interpretation
    - To generate or disseminate information for the purpose to be used for administration of justice, law enforcement, immigration or asylum processes, such as predicting an individual will commit fraud/crime commitment (e.g. by text profiling, drawing causal relationships between assertions made in documents, indiscriminate and arbitrarily-targeted use).
    - To generate NFTs

    Terms of use

    - You are solely responsible for any legal liability resulting from unethical use of this model(s)
    - If you use any of these models for merging, please state what steps you took to do so and clearly indicate where modifications have been made.

    Note

    If you see any conflicts or corrections to be made, please let me know.

    Description

    Release - v1.0

    ℹ temp vae file link: vae-ft-ema-560000-ema (unable to upload)

    This version brings together expressive fantasy elements and a stronger focus on cartoon/animation styling. Pathfinder offers a wide range of creativity from flat 2D styles, anime/illustration, cartoon/animation, semi-realistic style and more!

    Note: this version/model is not finetuned to maximum detail accuracy.

    FAQ

    Comments (22)

    1889476Jul 25, 2023Ā· 2 reactions
    CivitAI

    I just wrote a review on this model but i had to also make a comment about it because using this model has blown my mind. It is great for sfw and nsfw. It is VERY easy to use and combine well with all the loras i have tried.
    It is so good that i often got a good picture from this model and thought "naaah, I want to see how it handles a more complicated prompt", and just discarded the good pictures because i know this model will spit out another good picture the next time i press generate.
    It has an incredible succesrate, maybe the highest i have ever seen.
    I am rambling...
    TLDR: Download it and have fun, it is Great! Maybe the best i have ever seen.

    Ocean3
    Author
    Jul 25, 2023

    What an outstanding review, glad you enjoy things - props! šŸ‘Œ

    1889476Jul 25, 2023

    @Ocean3Ā I know you wanted constructive critizism to make the model better in the future, but i am not equipped to help improve something like this. Great work and thanks for the model!

    Ocean3
    Author
    Jul 25, 2023

    @AdamSonOfManĀ No worries, I'll use whatever is said to improve things as I can. I don't finetune with MBW too too much as it can have negative impacts in other areas, so I'm not too sure how much I would be able to remedy some things unless they were major anyways šŸ‘

    Detail wise some issues I notice with v1 are ears at times when interacting with hair, hair strands on face at times, eyes/teeth/hands are generally pretty decent, and some small detail inaccuracies here and there just like most models.

    1889476Jul 25, 2023Ā· 2 reactions

    @Ocean3Ā Yeah im fangirling a bit much. The model is not perfect, it is just the best i've seen out of the 50 or so i've tried.
    You can never do a better model than this so you should retire because anything less than this will bring shame on your family name!
    Edit: Jokes aside, when i review i do it only from text2img and maybe one 0.5 noise upscale, that is why im so mindblown by the model, that is can do ok images with very little extra work.

    PotatCatJul 25, 2023
    CivitAI

    Would it be possible to have pruned version?

    ą¼¼ 恤 ā—•_ā—• ༽つ

    Ocean3
    Author
    Jul 25, 2023

    There is already a pruned version in the files section on the right-hand side

    PotatCatJul 25, 2023Ā· 1 reaction

    @Ocean3Ā Ah my bad, i didn't see the model was FP32 (ļ½žļæ£ā–½ļæ£)ļ½ž

    Ocean3
    Author
    Jul 25, 2023

    @PotatovisionĀ I just assume the full version is fp32 by default? I don't actually know. I just know there is an option selected by default for fp16 when pruned.

    UnicomAug 1, 2023

    @Ocean3Ā 4Gb is not pruned version. fp16 should be about 2Gb

    Ocean3
    Author
    Aug 1, 2023Ā· 2 reactions

    @UnicomĀ That can depend on the model and pruning method such as ema choice. I run everything through the Toolkit extension, I may have had the wrong precision option selected here and the model only got cleaned up, or was due to outdated software at the time - not sure.

    I've rerun the full version through and reuploaded a new pruned version once again @Potatovision

    indenthesse293Jul 26, 2023Ā· 3 reactions
    CivitAI

    Yes, just like AdamSonOfMan already wrote, one of the best creative and fantasy models (just like Maverick - definitely try it) - replaced Dreamshaper and revAnimated for me!

    ChonsuSep 6, 2023
    CivitAI

    Looks great. Any chance for an SDXL version?

    Ocean3
    Author
    Sep 6, 2023Ā· 1 reaction

    Got a bit burnt out working with SDXL branch model variations with a model called 'Ambience' I had started to replicate the style of 'Maverick' a bit - no plans at the moment for the time being, I may work on the plans I had with a few models with SDXL.

    ChonsuSep 6, 2023Ā· 1 reaction

    @Ocean3Ā I see. Well, there is hope, that maybe one day.... ;)

    Ocean3
    Author
    Sep 6, 2023Ā· 1 reaction

    @ChonsuĀ I've got a good amount of unreleased models, mostly anime related, for 1.5 I'd still like to put out. I may try out sdxl again at some point, there are some nuances with sdxl that I didn't quite care for šŸ‘

    ChonsuSep 6, 2023

    @Ocean3Ā I just started out and I am still trying to get the hang. SDXL is my starting point. I guess, we will see, what's going to happen. Anyway, as far as I can tell, you work rocks ;)

    Ocean3
    Author
    Sep 6, 2023Ā· 1 reaction

    @ChonsuĀ ah I see, and thank you! šŸ’Ŗ

    chronosdragon77688Jan 1, 2024
    CivitAI

    I have questions about merging lora and models. Did you merge all models together first than merge the lora to that result? or Did you merge each lora to one of the models first then merge all the models together? Is one way better than the other? Thanks :)

    Ocean3
    Author
    Jan 2, 2024

    It's just a matter of the order you choose and effects you want for each merge part you do and where. Most loRA in general can cause some heavy styling especially at mid/higher weights, so I suggest starting with low-medium weights with simple tests that compliment the base styling/model without causing too many 'overbaked' styling, prompt responsiveness limitations, or issues.

    This model in particular iirc
    - used Maverick which had some lora merged in at various points through that model's merge process at low weight values (model linked in description)
    - merged some in layers itself with similar processes
    - and had lora merged into one of the base models used in this merge before merging into the main line

    Overall, this model can be a bit messy/experimental with some things as mentioned elsewhere - but this was more or less intended with these lora merges and other base styling. Negative embeddings/prompt/etc. all play major factors in some of that though too. This model may have too much lora use merged in imo, but that is all dependent on how the model is used too - still a very versatile model, most people in the gallery just seem to use it for common uses.

    @Ocean3Ā Thank you for answering :)

    NourdalFeb 21, 2025Ā· 2 reactions
    CivitAI

    Despite its age, it's just an excellent model! Wonderful responsiveness, magnificent, very expressive artistic semi-realistic style, deep harmonious color palette, excellent anatomy. IMHO this is one of the best semi-realistic SD1.5 models. Magnificent merge! Thanks!