maybe? please give us some feedback if you test it :)
and, no, i have no idea what the twins model is for or what the difference is. perhaps it specifically trained to generate pairs of people? if the author responds to my question you'll find their answer here: https://huggingface.co/xinsir/controlnet-openpose-sdxl-1.0/discussions/1

@eurotaku Yes I was trying to find out about that as well lol

As far as I can tell, the answer is NO. The performance is inconsistent. If you turn up the strength (~1.3) and set the ending step a bit early (0.5-0.7) it works ok for simple poses (using full open pose won't work) but it also tends to bork the image quality, making everything more blurry and plastic. I think the OpenPoseXL2 model still gives better results (note I said better, not great). And if you use DW Full with OpenXL2 you tend to get MUCH better results than with xinsir. Of course SD1.5 OpenPose remains the GOAT.

@epzer yep, openpose seems to be especially hard to train a good model for :(

@diogod @epzer the author's response: "it is a model with more precise pose and lower aesthetic score, the two model are different styles you can try it."

@eurotaku From my tests it reliably offers neither.

Have you tried this one? It's not as good as 1.5 but still quite good IMO

https://civitai.com/models/136070?modelVersionId=151451

not working at all

every version info should include a link to the original huggingface repository. the model card is usually the only source of info about a model and sadly i don't have the time to test and retest all these models for a thorough and up2date comparison. but in general i think you can say that you should not expect the same level of consistency as with the sd1.5 ones, still they are all worth a try i would say. the ones i use the most are probably the stability.ai and kohya-ss ones, plus the ip-adapters.

@eurotaku thanks for the info and models

yeah i agree. there are too many models everywhere. I got several terabytes of models now i need to cut it down a little lmao

@yofoton174609 Nah.... just buy more drives. :-D I wish my cable provider who claims "no download limit" would stop charging me more each month because I dl'd too much. I call it the "CiviTax". LOL

Best for depth with self-made masks and no pre-processor for me are bdsqlsz, kohya, hetaneko and diffusers. I find they're very everything-sensitive...LOL. Even more so than 1.5. But I am managing to get some semblance of control out of them, and not just smashing everything flat.

@parallelepipedon wow thanks for the info. what would you say is the depth model that gives more freedom to output while preserving pose. with or without preprocessor.