Because sometimes, what you really need for your mermaid OC is that extra bit of uniqueness to it. I tried to aim for as much diversity with this dataset as I could before getting to work, with as many types of real-life fish represented as I could think of at the moment, which is still far from all of them, if I represented all of them in this lora from the start, I'd be here for ages. Still, I went for a diverse selection of types to choose from, and the tags for each specific one is listed below.
Shark: shark mermaid, two-tone skin, grey skin, shark dorsal fin, sharp teeth
Lionfish: lionfish mermaid, venomous spines, lionfish dorsal fin, striped tail, scales
Clownfish: clownfish mermaid, orange tail, striped tail, clownfish head fins, scales
Eel: eel mermaid, very long tail, lamia, eel head fins
Anglerfish: anglerfish mermaid, illicium, esca, sharp teeth, blank eyes, bioluminescence, scales
Jellyfish: jellyfish mermaid, jelly hat, jelly skirt, tendrils, transparent body, transparent hair, biolumiescence, shiny body, tentacles
Koi: koi mermaid, white mermaid tail, red mermaid tail, orange mermaid tail, black mermaid tail, spotted mermaid tail, koi mermaid tail, scales
I definitely recommend you to mix and match tags from these mermaid types too if you wanna have some fun. It will help you get some real randomness to your mermaids, and help them look even more unique. Which brings me to the final set of tags, specifically trained on patterns with little reference, or based on characters with unique tails like Sayu from No Straight Roads or Shirahoshi from One Piece, as well as Ariel's sisters from the Little Mermaid remake. The result here is a little wonky, and often very chaotic, but it does its job decent enough. I recommend playing with the individual tag weights here because the results tend to vary a lot depending on the weight you use these tags at.
Random pattern: random pattern mermaid, multicolored mermaid tail, scales
Finally, weight. I recommend you use this at weight 0.7. You'll find it might be a bit too rigid at 1, but it should work there too, depending on the type. It might change with future releases, I dunno.
And yes, I'm taking requests for specific types of fish to represent in future releases of the model, so feel free to comment if you feel like a specific type of mermaid is missing. As of writing moment, I'm only really considering cethlapods/scyllas and sea snakes for the next release, so any specific suggestions would be very appreciated.
Description
Second Anima release, with a few new additions and musings to note.
Let's start of with the new types included before moving onto the v1 types, from the types that work the best to the ones that don't:
Seahorses! It took quite a bit of training to get this one to work properly, a lot of training steps before it finally played ball, but it finally did. Some extra data for sea dragons were included as well, but they didn't exactly stick much in training.
Cephalopods/scyllas are also included. They were probably the type that got learned the quickest, to be honest. Dunno how much control you'll have over the exact amount of tentacles, but that's an experiment in itself.
Sea snakes: Were pretty easily learned, and surprisingly didn't interfere too much with the eel data.
Sirens/harpy hybrids were an easy train. Guess that comes with harpies and mermaids having anatomies affecting vastly different body parts.
Bettas are included, but a bit wonky and inconsistent in body proportions. They work, but not consistently so.
Rays and mantas are where the training consistently began struggling. I blame lack of proper standardization of style in dataset. Case in point, I wanted both hip fins and arm fins included as options, but the only one that ended up even remotely giving good results was the hip fin variant. Though I guess in its current state it does have a tendency to create very alien and uncanny results, so take that for what you want.
Sea angels/sea butterflies barely produced any results beyond the bioluminecence. I blame a lack of dataset diversity for this type.
Melusine/two-tailed mermaids... Yeah, erm, this one didn't work. At all. At least, the tests didn't yield anything noteworthy. Maybe once in a blue moon this might work, but don't count on it.
As for what may be different with the ones included in v1:
Sharks and lionfish seem to be rather improved in quality
Eels seem a bit more stable, but the lack of distinct head fins from v1 is a sad loss
Random pattern mermaids seem more keen on giving distinct patterns rather than doing a clown blanket like in v1
Clownfish and koi don't really have much change to them
Anglerfish leans a lot more into the bioluminescence part of things. The lure/lantern can be a bit inconsistent, but not by much.
Jellyfish seems to lean more into the inhuman side than v1, can just produce a regular old jellyfish if not careful lol. Other than that, no issues to report.
From my tests, 0.7 should be the sweet spot weight to use this at. I'll update this with the tags I use as I go, but you'll have to wait and see.