I am pretty new to Z-Image. This is my first small step into training. So far I have focused on improving ???????. I have some other training going on now for some other aspects that I hope I can get out before to long.

In my limited work with it so far, I have found that DPM++SDE with Beta has gotten my best results. From 1 to 2.5 CFG. I have never changed the shift from the default of 6. I use 8 or 9 steps.

I use it in Forge Neo. Using the lumina setting, the ae.safetensors vae and the qwen_3_4b.safetensors text encoder.

I am calling this version 0.5 since there is more work I have to do. I welcome any comments. In one of my first tests with it I got a head cropped off image, but it doesn't seem to happen often. If you get anything weird, feel free to comment so I know what issues might need to be fixed on the next version.