NightVisionXL - NightVisionXL_v9.0.0
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ugly, deformed, noisy, blurry, low contrast, cartoon, anime, drawing, low budget, cheap, bad quality
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Recommended Hires (High-Resolution) Parameters
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Tips
Prompt NightVision XL like you would describe a scene to a human being, it understands natural language well.
Do not use the SDXL refiner with NightVision XL as it causes reduced quality output.
The model produces both SFW and NSFW outputs and is optimized for social media-ready photorealistic portraits.
Longer generation times are recommended over turbo modes to ensure quality.
Version Highlights
NightVisionXL V9.0.0 Release Notes
This is NightVisionXL 9.0 - This model is a fine tune of NightVision v8.1.1 with approx. 10,000 images comprising a rough mixture of 40% from a photography dataset, 40% from Laion Pop (filtered and recaptioned with GPTV), 10% from a cinematic dataset (same one used to train CineVisionXL), and 10% synthetic mixture of favorites picked from Civit and MJ, all hand chosen and captioned with GPTV. All input images were of high quality and large size, bucketed on training with a wide variety of sizes and aspect ratios, leading to a model that is very good at producing coherent output even in very extreme wide or tall aspect ratios, and anywhere in between. As with 8.1.1, NightVision v9.0 is a general purpose model that can output pretty much any style you like. NV continues to prefer natural language prompting over 1.5 style (though that does still work), however it has no Pony training or mixing, so those pony specific prompt rules won't work here (sorry).
I have not mixed in any speedups or improvements, nor any other alternate license models or LoRAs. NightVisionXL remains a pure SDXL model, and will stay that way moving forward.
Rather than my typical changelog (see above), I want to touch briefly on the release of SD3 Medium, the 2B model version. As a member of this community, I am very upset at the state of the model that was released. The hamfisted censorship of the model was uncalled for and effectively broke the model making training it almost impossible (from a technical standpoint it's just impossible to apply any type of decent learning rate without the loss skyrocketing and the train coming out completely terrible if not entirely broken). I know I've disappeared from the scene for awhile, I like many other trainers decided to "wait for SD3" - Now I regret that decision. This version of NightVision, this was my "private stock" version I trained for myself and my close friends. V8.1.1 was the swan song, v9 was my special gift to my friends, and it was those same friends who convinced me that v9 should be released, hopefully this can help bandage the wound that SD3 inflicted on the community. V9 isn't perfect, it has the same flaws that all SDXL models do (mostly related to the SDXL VAE, that I can't fix), but it's the best I've made, and now it's yours.
We'll see what happens with SD3. I'm going to say right now, unless there's a major training breakthrough with the 2B model, I'm likely just going to skip it and hold out for the 8B model (if they don't mangle that) or maybe look into training a different architecture, just not sure which one yet.
Known Issues
male genitalia is better, but still wierd. use a lora if you need perfect penises
hands are probably 85/90%, depending on the pose, but some things like holding objects can fight you.
Upside down or sideways faces (this is an SDXL VAE issue)
faces and detail at medium distance can be mushy in initial generations (another VAE issue)
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NightVisionXL started as a lightly trained, photography focused SDXL model that specialized in photographic output. Over the past few months, NightVision has received dozens of trainings and tunings chasing the dragon that is pleasing aesthetic output. With the release of version 8.X, I feel like I'm much closer to my goal of effortless beautiful output that is aesthetically pleasing without requiring confusing negatives or comma separated nonsense.
NightVisionXL speaks natural language. Prompt it like you would describe a scene to a human being, and you'll be surprised by how well it can understand and comprehend your prompts.
I'm trying something new with V8 of NightVision, and I hope the results show in the output. I continue to scrape beautiful imagery that I think will train well, and this particular update is no exception with hundreds of beautiful license free AI images that I've sourced from MJ, Dalle3, Civit, Playground and my own outputs. On top of that, I'm also utilizing HF datasets for license free photography and the LAION-POP dataset, filtered to remove low quality images prior to training. Captioning is done using my own Spicy Burrito captioning tool (available to my Patreon subscribers on discord!) that creates incredibly verbose and effective captions that are essential for good coherent output.
On a final note, I've had multiple requests to "turbo-ize" this model. I have no plans to mix turbo into NightVision, as the licensing on NightVision is nice and open right now with the SDXL licensing, and I'd like to keep it that way. NightVision isn't fast, but I promise you the longer gen times are worth the wait!
This is NightVision XL, a lightly trained base SDXL model that is then further refined with community LORAs to get it to where it is now. NightVision XL has been refined and biased to produce touched-up photorealistic portrait output that is ready-stylized for Social media posting! NightVision XL has nice coherency and is avoiding some of the weird body issues and biases that are starting to plague some of the other photorealistic models. Further, NightVision XL produces rich deep blacks and great evening/night time scenes. It can also produce ridiculously bright output as well!
NightVision XL is capable of both SFW and NSFW output. As with all of my other models, tools and embeddings, NightVision XL is easy to use, preferring simple prompts and letting the model do the heavy lifting for scene building.
NOTE - This version includes a baked VAE, no need to download or use the "suggested" external VAE.
WARNING - DO NOT USE SDXL REFINER WITH NIGHTVISION XL
The SDXL refiner is incompatible and you will have reduced quality output if you try to use the base model refiner with NightVision XL.
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