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    b2.0

    New Release: LucentXL (untitled . pony Fine-Tuned Upgrade)

    The original untitled.pony laid the foundation. This version builds on it — deeper, smarter, sharper. LucentXL is a fine-tuned and expanded upgrade, refined for improved photorealism and generation fidelity across a wider range of prompts and styles.

    🔧 Key Improvements:

    • New name, same roots – renamed based on community feedback, while keeping lineage intact.

    • Fine-tuning on enhanced dataset – expanded with additional photorealistic and ethnic-specific material for broader diversity and realism.

    • Improved sampler compatibility – tuned to perform exceptionally with DPM++ 2M Karras, giving more stable and natural output with less tweaking.

    • Increased token comprehension – upgraded text encoder awareness and prompt reactivity.

    • Ethnicity-aware – better representation and understanding of diverse facial features and cultural cues.

    • Precision detailing – finer control over eyes, lighting, skin texture and tone.

    • Block weight adjustments – internal tweaks to balance realism layers without oversaturation or hallucinations.


    🔧 Settings

    Local Generation

    • Sampler: DPM++ SDE

    • CFG: 2.5 - 4.5

    • Steps: 20+

    On Civit

    • Sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras

    • CFG: 2.5 - 4.5

    • Steps: 25+

    🔍Upscaling (Latent)

    • Method: Latent

    • Resize: 1.5x

    • Denoise strength: 0.5

    • Steps: 15

    📝 Latent upscaling benefits from the model’s own internal fine-tuned understanding of lighting, skin texture, and soft anatomical detail, giving a natural enhancement without introducing artefacts or plastic smoothing.

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    b1.0

    Untitled is an experimental hybrid checkpoint built for users who want better control, clarity, and prompt consistency across stylised and semi-realistic generations. It's flexible, designed for creators who know what they want and want it rendered clean. It also features enhanced token adherence, improving its ability to accurately interpret and respond to a wider range of prompts

    This checkpoint performs significantly better in local environments due to sampler and backend limitations on Civitai. Prompt interpretation, lighting response, and shape consistency all benefit from proper sampler use.


    ✅ On Civitai (Web UI):

    • Sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras

    • CFG: 4 – 6

    • Steps: 20 – 35

    ✅ Local Use (e.g. A1111, ComfyUI):

    • Sampler: DPM++ SDE

    • CFG: 2 - 5

    • Steps: 20 – 35

    • Works well with ControlNet, IPAdapter, LoRAs, and realism-focused workflows.


    Still experimental. Expect occasional variation — but when it hits, it hits clean.
    Feedback and test images welcome.

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    Comments (49)

    paulviviliyam258Jul 4, 2025· 30 reactions
    CivitAI

    Nice picture

    gehof37814391Jul 6, 2025· 25 reactions
    CivitAI

    inpainting sampler and setting plz

    klaabu
    Author
    Jul 6, 2025· 2 reactions

    For upscaling use "latent" with 0.5 denoise, 1.5x and 15 steps. Others is best to figure out yourself :)

    pancreaskidneybeanJul 9, 2025· 24 reactions
    CivitAI

    Excellent checkpoint!

    samantha1Jul 10, 2025· 25 reactions
    CivitAI

    new fave :)

    AspherosJul 19, 2025· 22 reactions
    CivitAI

    top tier model, love it

    klaabu
    Author
    Jul 19, 2025

    Thank you :)

    SakuraCherryBlossomsJul 20, 2025· 22 reactions
    CivitAI

    I am very happy with this model! It creates very real looking results on human skins. Specially for adult content, its very useful.

    andhreluiz1979Jul 21, 2025· 15 reactions
    CivitAI

    Beautiful

    ethane182Jul 22, 2025· 19 reactions
    CivitAI

    Top top top

    rmarkjrJul 25, 2025· 14 reactions
    CivitAI

    It doesn't say on the page. Is there a default resolution/image size to start with or that is recommended?

    klaabu
    Author
    Jul 25, 2025

    832x1216 is good starting point. But you can go beyond for cinematic shots if needed.

    rmarkjrJul 26, 2025· 1 reaction

    klaabu Thank you! I will give that a try

    rmarkjrJul 25, 2025· 16 reactions
    CivitAI

    I see that the recommended resizing settings is .5 denoise and x1.5 in size. Is there a way to do this with a lower denoise and bigger size, say by x2? If I go lower on the denoise the image is blurry, but at .50 it's enough to change the image a bit when resizing. Also, going bigger than x1.5 it distorts. Thanks!

    klaabu
    Author
    Jul 25, 2025· 1 reaction

    I recommend using Latent upscale. You can go 4x if you want. The denoise and steps are adjustable depending on the image.

    BabubiboJul 26, 2025· 19 reactions
    CivitAI

    hi, why model is not working anymore?

    klaabu
    Author
    Jul 26, 2025

    Hi, it happens from time to time with CivitAi, auction didn't seem to register or go through

    BabubiboJul 27, 2025

    klaabu okay so its gonna work in the future? haha Because I love your model! Its so realistic, but I dont know how to use it outside civit. Thank you for respond!

    klaabu
    Author
    Jul 27, 2025

    Babubibo it will be available in 6 days. If you need help setting up local generation or rent GPU, feel free to reach out in Discord :) happy to help

    darkthoughtAug 14, 2025· 15 reactions
    CivitAI

    awesome

    rmarkjrAug 16, 2025· 16 reactions
    CivitAI

    Love this model, I am using it to make realistic people. The only issue I have is the number of fingers. It really loves 3 fingers and 6 fingers. Is there a way to prevent this or stop it from happening so often? It happens a lot.

    klaabu
    Author
    Aug 16, 2025· 1 reaction

    Hei @rmarkjr , try and add "deformed, missing fingers" to the negative

    rmarkjrAug 17, 2025

    klaabu Hey! thanks for the reply. I should have included that. Here is my negative prompt: man, men, penis, smooth skin, big head, round face, big forehead, double chin, wide face, small face, (straight hair:1.3), (flat hair:1.2), text , earrings, letters, numbers, (missing fingers:1.45), too many fingers, close up, moles, wet hair. pony tail, bad anatomy, fat, chubby, bright eyes, bad proportions, blurry, cartoonish, deformed hands, missing fingers, extra fingers, fused fingers, poorly drawn hands, disfigured face, distorted features, double vision, exaggerated facial expressions, floating limbs, glowy skin, grainy, gross proportions, lack of detail, low resolution, low quality, missing eyes, mutated hands, out of focus, poorly drawn face, semi-realistic, surrealism, text, watermark, worst quality, unrealistic eyes, unnatural skin texture, visible artifacts, warped face, bad car design, deformed car, unrealistic vehicle, distorted wheels, extra wheels, missing headlights, warped body, cartoon

    klaabu
    Author
    Aug 17, 2025

    rmarkjr thats little too much.

    Start with this " bad quality, low quality, deformed, 1boy, penis, text, watermark, signature" - from here, only add things you dont want to see :)

    GoronPlusAug 20, 2025· 14 reactions
    CivitAI

    Noob version? 😁🙏

    Pros: noob and illustrious have strong prompt adherence, and has very good hands.

    aireallyAug 21, 2025· 30 reactions
    CivitAI

    I really don't know. Is it breathtaking or mindblowing? Probably both. And more. I'm mightily grateful to you.

    klaabu
    Author
    Aug 21, 2025· 1 reaction

    ❤️ you

    akosAug 25, 2025· 16 reactions
    CivitAI

    refuses to train character LORAS of real faces here on civitai,.. all my many attempts to use this checkpoint for such LORA training using Civitais training section, miserably failed so far. Would You have an helping recommendations for Civitai Lora Character Training here with your otherwise real amazing checkpoint Lucent B20 this maybe?

    klaabu
    Author
    Aug 25, 2025· 1 reaction

    Hei. I can help you with LoRA training overall for characters, but im not 100% sure how Civit trainer feeds settings back to the backend. Reach out through discord and ill help you :)

    I'll send 10k yellow , so you can mess around more ❤️

    lorigarcia8385781Feb 22, 2026

    @klaabu Can you send it to me too?)))

    Fluffy_PicAug 25, 2025· 15 reactions
    CivitAI

    Amazinng !!!
    but i'll love some help to get the caractere not looking at the camera ... i realy strugle with that checkpoint

    klaabu
    Author
    Aug 25, 2025

    Hei @Fluffy_Pic thank you 😊

    Try "eye_contact" in negative with "looking at viewer" and add "looking away" to positive

    Fluffy_PicAug 28, 2025

    @klaabu mMmghh I try thos, but still very very hard :-/
    maybe some lora i use push the checkpoint to make the charactere looking at the cam

    klaabu
    Author
    Aug 28, 2025

    @Fluffy_Pic im not sure. I personally haven't had this issue, but I do know that most checkpoints and including mine are biased due to the traininf data

    Fluffy_PicAug 28, 2025

    @klaabu yeah that what I notice ... in many image used the girl looking the cam ... ^^"

    phildoeshair1Sep 8, 2025

    dont use the word portrait. use photograph or photo

    Fluffy_PicSep 8, 2025

    @phildoeshair1 hooo i'm gonna try that !

    TellesusNov 26, 2025

    in pony use "eyes closed" and it fixes this (but then they have their eyes closed)

    longrandomusernameAug 28, 2025· 23 reactions
    CivitAI

    Just awesome!

    simbasocials062849Sep 20, 2025· 9 reactions
    CivitAI

    Just awesome

    s34c21z92Sep 22, 2025· 9 reactions
    CivitAI

    is there anyway i can train a realistic real person LoRA on this model?

    victory_catDec 6, 2025

    You can train a realistic consistent character on any model. Ive had success with Kohya locally, never trained a model on a service but I'd assume its the same. I can give advice on how I did it if you wanna hmu sometime, but I will warn that I am still learning.

    @victory_cat I'm kinda new to this, been generating a lot of images with the same "person" ltealy. It's kind of hard to randomize it, any tips?

    victory_catDec 24, 2025

    @tiberiusgraco666857 sorry I am late, was having GPU issues haha, assuming you have the same person and art trying to get more angles, one of the best methods Ive found for that is to generate video of the character with wan 2.1 or 2.2 and then extract frames. The size will probably be a little bit off, you can directly upscale or personally I like to pass them through Qwen or a similar generate to make some changes. I.e. trying on different outfits and stuff like that, which can really help to make the lora more robust.

    victory_catDec 24, 2025

    @tiberiusgraco666857 If you are directly getting the same character with a model and you are trying to get more difference, I would recomend either going with a massively different prompt, i.e. change the race or something like that, or just try a different model. A lot of times this happens because a character gets "over baked into the model" so like the creator of the model might put too many examples of the same character in the model, and all of the sudden boom the character is appearing in every image.

    braxusbae284Sep 26, 2025· 15 reactions
    CivitAI

    Awesome model..!!  I love how versatile it is.  It adheres to my prompts and does not distort with any Loras I use.   As far as my favorite models go, it's in a 4-way tie for 1st alongside

    ponyRealism_V22MainVAE

    ultimateRealismXL_v10

    cyberrealisticPony_v130 

    I hope to see more.

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    ComfyUI (locally)

    token_normalization -  length+mean

    weight_inerpertation - A1111

    steps        30

    cfg            5-6

    sampler    euler_dy_negative*

    scheduler sgm_uniform

    *euler_dy_negative is by far the best sampler (that perhaps, you've never tried)

    klaabu
    Author
    Sep 26, 2025

    @braxusbae284 thank you for the great review! I indeed have not tried this sampler, will give it a go!

    tiberiusgraco666857Dec 20, 2025· 5 reactions
    CivitAI

    Been playing around with generation the past week and this was the only checkpoint that I was able to generate truly realistic images. Thanks a lot.

    klaabu
    Author
    Dec 20, 2025

    Thank you @tiberiusgraco666857 ❤️