Now YOU can have the power of Mangled Merge for just about 270MB with ability to set weights! Mangled Merge LyCo works well with most v2.1 models. However, ... It goes a little off the rails with some anime based models. It makes them more ... Anime-ish and breaks with a weight of more than .5. I've also added a vae that brings out more color and makes the image slightly darker and more contrasted. It is recommended you use the accompanying vae with Mangled Merge Lyco for best results. The Vae file can be found <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/88453?modelVersionId=94111">here</a>, or in this model card. It is labeled as LyCORIS (319.19 MB). Civitai didn't give me the option of labeling it as a vae, but it should save as a pickle tensor (.pt) file and you should download it into your vae folder and then select it in your settings.

Mangled Merge LyCo + VAE

Now YOU can have the power of Mangled Merge for just about 270MB with ability to set weights! Mangled Merge LyCo works well with most v2.1 models. However, ... It goes a little off the rails with some anime based models. It makes them more ... Anime-ish and breaks with a weight of more than .5. I've also added a vae that brings out more color and makes the image slightly darker and more contrasted. It is recommended you use the accompanying vae with Mangled Merge Lyco for best results. The Vae file can be found <a rel="ugc" href="https://civitai.com/models/88453?modelVersionId=94111">here</a>, or in this model card. It is labeled as LyCORIS (319.19 MB). Civitai didn't give me the option of labeling it as a vae, but it should save as a pickle tensor (.pt) file and you should download it into your vae folder and then select it in your settings.

Mangled_Merge_Vae.pt

Mangled_Merge_Lyco.safetensors

v1.0

This VAE file can be used in conjunction with the <a rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/88424/mangled-merge-lyco-vae">Mangled Merge LyCo</a> to bring out more color and make the image slightly darker and more contrasted. I haven't tried it on other models but feel free to give it a shot.

Mangled Merge VAE

This VAE file can be used in conjunction with the <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civitai.com/models/88424/mangled-merge-lyco-vae">Mangled Merge LyCo</a> to bring out more color and make the image slightly darker and more contrasted. I haven't tried it on other models but feel free to give it a shot.

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