A2 [Vermouth]

The second version of Pandora's Box/ConcoctionMix, now with Wormwood built-in for better realism and slightly more cohesive images. More of a side-grade than an outright upgrade

Original name: CCM-a2-Vermouth.safetensors

This version's codename, Vermouth. follows upon the alcoholic drinks idea. There's been historical reports of people mixing wormwood into white wine, so this is a serendipity for the most part. I just like the name and idea.

# Changelog:

• Added Wormwood and CCM-a1 into the model (through trainDifference merging)

  • More realism and realistic feel - partially countered by putting "realistic" and "photorealistic" into negatives.

  • Lost quite a bit of color during this. This can be fixed by using a different VAE than the one bundled in this model - WD1-4-kl-f8-anime2-bless09

  • Slightly better hands. In regular poses, hands are more solid and decent than before. Still fucks up in many cases

  • Surprisingly decent prompt comprehension - managed to recover the "centaur" tags

  • Worse area conditioning (until I can figure something out at least)

  • Styles still work pretty well (if you put any of the realism stuff into the negatives)

  • Both CLIP Skip 1 and 2 still works well

  • Sometimes forgets details, which I don't like that much

• Even more complicated merging workflow - this is getting really hard to put in 1 image lol

# Merge recipe

## Checkpoints

• OpenSolera - a5 [Serif]

• Wormwood - Alpha 1

## LoRAs:

• CluelessC's Hololive - 6.3-a10-eps-resized-512

• AIOMonsterGirl - v4-LoRA/LyCORIS

• Theovercomer8's Contrast Fix

• DPO LoRA

## CLIP

• zer0int/CLIP-GmP-ViT-L-14 - ViT-L-14-TEXT-detail-improved-hiT-GmP-TE-only-HF.safetensors

## VAE

• nubby/kl-f8-anime2-blessed - WD1-4-kl-f8-anime2-bless09.safetensors