Model Variants

• No VAE – Requires an external VAE to avoid issues such as color dullness or white blotches.

• VAE-Baked – VAE is already baked-in, so no external VAE is needed in SD WebUI.

Recommended Settings

• Sampler: UniPC / Restart

• CFG Scale: 3.5

• Steps: 30

• Resolution: SDXL size

• Clip Skip: 2

• VAE: Pony Standard VAE (for No VAE variant only)

Merged Models

Ri-mix - [PONY + Illustrious] (0.6) + 2.5D_Prony (0.4)