Reviews
Smooth Mix - Old Ver. (NoobAI/Illustrious/Pony)
Overwhelmingly Positive
99% of 1,591 reviews recommend it · 1,591 reviews
webys2
Magnificent, it is very compatible with my style. Thank you very much.
InsanityGen
Perfect for making Ultramarine soldier girls.
Good details, good light, and good adherence to prompt. My only real complaint is sometimes (maybe 1 out of every 100 renders) it blows the lighting out and looks almost deep fried for no discernable reason. Maybe there is one item in the big mess of wildcards I typically use that it just doesn't like.
Good at producing 2.5D/semirealistic images. This is my go-to checkpoint for semirealistic. Decent prompt adherence, handles SFW and **** content fairly well. Only complaint I'd have is that it tends to produce female subjects with lout-of-propotion hip and thigh size, but this can be mitigated with the right negative prompts and LoRAs.
Damacy
This IL_XL v3 checkpoint is a step forward from previous versions in details and lighting, but looks like the baked VAE has problems with VIBRANCE and CONTRAST.
It can produse overburn results even on low CFG values. And a manual inspect shows pure white values in many places... not sure how it can be done in VAE, but in image editing software values of VIBRANCE can be easily lowered to -30%.
Looks like the base was v1 if to compare with grid results.