Fifth Mix [Illustrious]

Fifth Mix Fifth Mix is a furry focused, anime capable merge model that comes in several different flavors for you to enjoy.

I want to extend a personal thankyou to LatteLeopard for the amazing BANANA SPLITZ model. Please check it out, I think you'll enjoy it.

Version names? Why not v1, v2, ect? Fifth Mix is a merge compilation of models with traits I like, mixed to reach differing goals of styles and capability. Each mix isn't necessarily a progression of quality, but simply mixed for different preferential uses.

Fifth Mix [Banana daiquiri]: This mix is all about enhancing color depth, richness, and expressive lighting; Banana daiquiri is also an excellent 2.5D model for close character focused creations. However, Banana daiquiri suffers from overdetailing backgrounds and small details, and this can cause instability with excessive small details.

Fifth Mix [Absinthe]: This mix is a solid foundation for most furry needs, it was created specifically to enhance 2D/2.5D Anthro/Furry/Kemono related prompts and concepts while retaining a fairly neutral style. Absinthe for me has shown to be very capable at handling large, complex prompts, and able to load up several LoRAs at once without breaking easily.

Fifth Mix [Paradise]: Is the little sister to Absinthe being virtually identical in mix composition, and having very similar outputs. The goal for Paradise was to have something with a strong foundation, but present a soft, kawii aesthetic. (Sic. Better tuned for Kemono.)

Fifth Mix ???: I still have a few unreleased mixes in need of testing and I don't want to spoil too much just yet incase those models don't end up coming to be.

NSFW content? Fifth Mix is NSFW and SFW capable, However, because CivitAI is... what it is... I've chosen to use mostly SFW images to show the look and feel of Fifth Mix.

Your prompts seem different than most models? I use A1111 with tag-autocomplete, and prefer using e621 tags where possible. Every model has it's own unique ways being best prompted. I encourage you to experiment, be creative, use your imagination! try prompting in whatever way you're most comfortable with. I use the prompts and structure I've found to give me the results I'm looking for, though that may not always be ideal for you.

Artist tags? Yes, many popular artist tags on Danbooru and e621 should work across Illustrious models, though I can not adequately comment on if a specific artist tag works with any Fifth Mix mix.

LoRA compatibility: After a great deal of testing, I can say confidently, most LoRAs work within Fifth Mix.

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General settings for [Banana daiquiri] Minimum recommended prompt:

As a minimum, this is what I would recommend.

Prompt:

masterpiece, best quality, absurd res, hi res, Negative:

worst quality, low quality, low res, compression artifacts, signature, watermark, artist name, character name, patreon username, patreon logo, url, blurry, ai generated, recommended settings:

CFG: 2-5

Sampler: Eular A

Schedule type: Any (I personally use polyexponential)

Sampling Steps: 20 - 60

Resolution:

Fifth Mix is capable of all resolutions supported by SDXL models.

832 x 1216, 1024 x 1024 tend to be more stable.

Additional tools: (or your UI's equivalent)

Hires. fix

ADetailer

Regional Prompter

tag-autocomplete

Enhanced settings for [Banana daiquiri] For more advanced guidance using Banana daiquiri, I recommend reading the fallowing.

Prompt structure:

This is just a general guideline if you want to replicate my prompting structure, you can also move each block around to change how much strength they'll have on the final output.

masterpiece, best quality, absurd res, hi res, [Character (if applicable)], [physical appearance], [Clothing (if applicable)], [Setting (location, scenery, objects)], [Lighting], [action/pose/position], [enhancements] But wait! Some of your images have the characters near the end after a BREAK?

short answer, that's Regional Prompter for A1111 and is how I make images with multiple characters that don't bleed over. I really don't ever need to use the BREAK command outside of that, so odds are, if you see BREAK in my prompt, it's because I used Regional Prompter

Light and contrast assist prompts:

Below is just a small example of some tags you might consider using to spice up the lighting in your prompts.

hdr, 4k, 8k,

chromatic aberration,

multiple lighting sources,

volumetric lighting,

high contrast, low light, low lighting, dimly lit,

[color] light, [color] lighting, [color] glow, [color] rimlight, [color] shine, [color] refraction, [color] backlight,

sharp focus,

soft focus, soft shading, soft lighting,

cool colors,

warm colors,

warm lighting, Enhancement prompts:

I would advise caution when using more than a few enhancement prompts, these prompts can cause instability and loss of quality when overused for small details, but are powerful when used in moderation.

detailed,

detailed lighting, detailed shading,

detailed hair,

detailed eyes,

detailed mouth,

detailed fur,

detailed scales,

detailed genitals,

detailed pussy,

detailed penis,

detailed nipples,

detailed [ect...] Light negative:

You can use similar lighting prompts in the negative to (try to) remove certain lighting from a prompt, using the [color] prompts below as white can significantly help if you're trying to make a dark and/or specific color saturated image.

[color] light, [color] lighting, [color] glow, [color] rimlight, [color] shine, [color] refraction, [color] backlight,

cool colors,

warm colors,

General settings for [Absinthe] [Paradise] Minimum recommended prompt:

Prompt:

masterpiece, best quality, rendered, illustration Negative:

worst quality, low quality, low res, compression artifacts, signature, watermark, artist name, character name, patreon username, patreon logo, url, blurry, ai generated, recommended settings:

CFG: 2-5

Sampler: Eular A

Schedule type: Any (I personally use polyexponential)

Sampling Steps: 20 - 60

Resolution:

Fifth Mix is capable of all resolutions supported by SDXL models.

832 x 1216, 1024 x 1024 tend to be more stable.

Additional tools: (or your UI's equivalent)

Hires. fix

ADetailer

Regional Prompter

tag-autocomplete

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Notes:

Banana daiquiri: My prompting and general workflow has improved since first uploading Fifth Mix, so with the introduction of Banana daiquiri, I've taken the chance to recreate the display images using updated prompting with new seeds. All display images for Banana daiquiri are passed through HiRes with 4x Foolhardy Remacri at 2.5x/2.75x upscaling, and then hit with various ADetailer models as needed.

It is possible in the future, I might attempt to remix older models with very slight changes to the mix ratio and/or order, using updated base models from all the wonderful model makers available; in such a case, I will mark them with a version number. But the naming scheme will remain the thematic differentiator between divergent mixes.

All models used for mixing are Epsilon-Prediction (e-pred), as I am personally limited to that right now because of my choice to remain on A1111. I'm stubborn, and don't really feel like rebuilding everything for one of the other more up-to-date and better UIs.

I'll highly reconsider changing UI should I manage to get a 5080 for msrp soon; Pls Nvidia, I beg you 🫠 Well... Fuck me. I guess I'll be attempting to migrate my work to a new UI shortly.

NoobAI category added to CivitAI; while all versions of Fifth Mix have used NoobAI based merges somewhere in them before this change, all eps versions of NoobAI are more closely related to Illustrious and remain compatable, as such, Fifth Mix will remain categorized an an illustrious merge.

On the note of other versions; I want to head off an expected question with an answer. "Will you make a Fifth Mix for Pony?" and the answer to that is. No.

All display images uploaded used Hires and ADetailer, additionally some images used Regional Prompter. It is unlikely you'll be able to recreate these images without similar tools.

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Fifth Mix Banana Daiquiri Merge recipe; all merges were a weighted sum of (A) + (B).

(Hey, you should check out the models listed below, they're all great)

bananaSPLITZ: vee1PointOh | indigodreamxl: illustriousepsV3

70 | 30

First mix | kiwimixXL: V3

50 | 50

Second mix | Mala IllustriousXL: v1.0

60 | 40

Third mix | novaFurryXL: illustriousV40

40 | 60

Fourth mix | yiffymix: v60Noobxl

70 | 30

Final result: LS Fifth Mix Banana daiquiri

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Fifth Mix Absinthe Merge recipe; all merges were a weighted sum of (A) + (B).

(Hey, you should check out the models listed below, they're all great)

Mol_Keun Furry Mix: Mol_Kun Mix Noob-XL | ChromaMorgy-Merge-illustriousXL: v1.0

mixed at 50/50

1st MIx | Mala IllustriousXL: v1.0

mixed at 75/25

2nd mix | Nova Anime XL: Illustrious v1.0

mixed at 85/15

3rd mix | Nova Furry XL Illustrious v0.8

mixed at 70/30

4th mix | KiwiMix-XL: V3

mixed at 75/25

FInal result: Fifth Mix Absinthe

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Fifth Mix Paradise Merge recipe; all merges were a weighted sum of (A) + (B).

(Hey, you should check out the models listed below, they're all great)

Mol_Keun Furry Mix: Mol_Kun Mix Noob-XL | ChromaMorgy-Merge-illustriousXL: v1.0

mixed at 50/50.

1st Mix | Mala IllustriousXL: v1.0

mixed at 70/30

2nd mix | Obsession (Illustrious-XL): v3.0

Mixed at 85/15

3rd mix | Nova Anime XL: Illustrious v1.0

Mixed at 85/15

4th mix | KiwiMix-XL: V3

mixed at 70/30

Final result: Fifth Mix Paradise

https://civitai.com/models/1017790?modelVersionId=1508029