I wanted to reproduce the pictures from an earlier post I did in this thread from 5th January, and it proved to be almost impossible! So I just had to produce a bunch of similar images using the same prompt instead:
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There were actually a bunch of changes to the webui project so that the model hashes changed, and also changes to how the samplers work. In the newest versions there are now settings to switch back to the old behaviour which helps, but still I just couldn't figure out what I was missing anymore.
I did find that reproduceability is not as easy that I thought in general, I tried to reproduce a picture
Sepheyer posted here, but I just couldn't get the same result as him:
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It looks very similar, but something must have still been different.
So, instead of trying to figure out why it didn't work, I decided my time is better spend on trying something else. So I trained a LORA with the pictures of that Daz character I already used as example in my first post here. Basicly I trained with the pictures of this little series:
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And then I tried applying that LORA to
Sepheyer's prompt:
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And I was actually really surprised how easy training a LORA was and how relatively well it worked. In particular the hair and the clothing was picked up (only the shirt, the skirt was barely present in the training data, still came out looking like I expected it though), even tough the training data wasn't really that comprehensive. Though I think the glasses were not a good thing to try and use for a first attempt at training a LORA. They caused ugly effects when applying the LORA with too much weight, and also it was kind of difficult to then make it create an image without glasses.
I also applied the LORA to pictures of the training data, with inpainting. It kind of worked as a way to recreate the same character, but with a certain style. More realistic, or more anime like, some before after pics:
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