Nova Illustrious Combo Merge (NICM)

The Nova Illustrious Combo Merge (NICM) is essentially the Illustrious successor to the Prefect Combo Merge that was based on Pony Diffusion. NICM aims to be versatile and able to generate many topics while maintaining high compatibility with LoRAs and preserving image quality while also requiring minimal prompting. This model can generate anthro characters as well as human characters.This model was created using the following process:Nova Unreal XL 2.0 was merged with Prefectious XL NFSW 1.0 using a weighted sum of 0.4.WAI NFSW Illustrious SDXL 8.0 was merged with Obsession Illustrious v3.1 using a weighted sum of 0.4.The resulting merges were merged together using a weighted sum of 0.4. The SDXL 1.0 VAE was baked into the final checkpoint.https://civitai.com/models/1108790