Winged Cloud (Sakura Dungeon) (Illustrious)

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Trigger Words:

Main trigger: winclosakdun

Helper prompts: parody, style parody

Extra help: game cg

The LoRA can potentially work with no triggers, but it may not be strong/consistent.

For a stronger effect, use the main trigger: winclosakdun. You can also weight it numerically or with parentheses - I usually do (((winclosakdun))).

If the (weighted) main trigger is still not enough by itself, next try one or both of the helper prompts along with the main trigger. They can be weighted as well - I usually do them all together, like (((winclosakdun, parody, style parody))).

I didn't include it as an official trigger because it's not necessary and may be anecdotal, but adding game cg to the other trigger words may (or may not) help improve the quality of outputs.

At a Glance:

Base model: Anime style (I use WAI-illustrious-SDXL)

LoRA weight: 1 (but slowly go lower or higher if necessary)

Suggested parameters: Euler a, Automatic, 30 steps, 832x1216/1216x832, CFG 5 (but feel free to experiment!)

Hires. fix: 1.5x, 30 steps, use a quality upscaler (like 4x-UltraSharpV2), denoising strength 0.5 - 0.3

Extra: use ADetailer to fix faces and/or hands if necessary

Description:

This LoRA produces art in the style of some of the Winged Cloud visual novel games, and specifically it's based on the game Sakura Dungeon. I had a very hard time training the SD1.5 versions of this LoRA, so it was nice that the Illustrious version came out ok on the first try. It's not without its shortcomings though.

Notably, the LoRA is not great at fine detail, and it's especially pretty bad at hands. You will most likely want to use ADetailer to improve faces and/or hands on most gens. I didn't use it in the showcase images just to show you what the LoRA can do on its own, but the showcase images are also pretty cherry-picked, so you might need to be a bit patient to get acceptable images (especially if you're picky like me). It needs more testing, but adding "game cg" to the prompt has yielded some pretty nice results for me so far, so that's also something you can try!

For more potentially relevant information, you can also check out the original SD1.5 descriptions. Below, there's a troubleshooting section in case you're having any problems.

Troubleshooting:

If you're having persistent problems with anatomy, fine detail, and/or other jank, just try your best with all the usual fixes - different prompting (including negative prompt), try a different base model, use a different VAE, try different clip skip values, adjust the LoRA weight, use adetailer, inpaint, etc.

Outro:

If you make anything awesome, please consider posting them to the gallery! That goes for all of my models! I really like seeing what kind of stuff you all are able to make!

If you have any questions, feel free to ask! I will try my best to help! Also, if you have any ideas for future models, please don't hesitate to share them with me!