<h2 id="what-is-quaintly-chaotic-comtesse">What is Quaintly Chaotic Comtesse?</h2>Quaintly Chaotic Comtesse (QCC) is my attempt at a fully open recipe merged Illustrious model. QCC is quite a dynamic checkpoint that plays well with most loras. QCC merges the features and capabilities of a collection of models that I love.<h2 id="what-tools-are-used-to-create-qcc">What Tools are Used to Create QCC?</h2>The main tool used to blend the source models is <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://github.com/Faildes/Chattiori-Model-Merger">Chattiori Model Merger</a>. The final mix is then trimmed.<h2 id="what-models-were-merged-to-create-qcc">What Models were Merged to Create QCC?</h2><ol><li>IlluQuaint 0.8 by me</li><li><a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/2125236?modelVersionId=2689217">Chaos v10</a> by @_Kav_</li><li><a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/408483?modelVersionId=2207703">Analog Madness XL5</a> by @CornmeisterNL</li><li><a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/2354275?modelVersionId=2647860">Comtesse Raffinée v1.0</a> by @Chumple</li></ol><h2 id="merge-recipe">Merge Recipe</h2><ol><li>python <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="http://merge.py">merge.py</a> WS "C:\ModelPath" "IlluQuaint_v0.8_202601040952.safetensors" "chaos_v10.safetensors" --alpha "0.5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.5, 0.5, 0.7, 0.8, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0" --output "IlluChaos_Aggressive_WS" --save_safetensors --save_half --prune</li><li>Using ComfyUI, bake in <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/1206045?modelVersionId=1358586">HandPatch (Unet-Only)</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/1433845">HD Eyes</a> loras into checkpoint produced in Step 1.</li><li>python <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="http://merge.py">merge.py</a> SPRSE "C:\ModelPath" "IlluChaos_Aggressive_WS-hands_and_eyes_patch.safetensors" "analogMadnessSDXL_xl5.safetensors" --alpha "0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.4, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0" --output "IlluChaos_SPRSE_Hybrid" --save_safetensors --save_half --prune</li><li>python <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="http://merge.py">merge.py</a> FREQ "C:\ModelPath" "IlluChaos_SPRSE_Hybrid.safetensors" "comtesseRaffinE_v10.safetensors" --alpha "0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 0.8, 0.8, 0.8, 0.8, 0.8, 0.8, 0.8" --output "IlluChaosComtesse_FREQ_Hybrid" --save_safetensors --save_half --prune</li></ol><h2 id="additional-info">Additional Info</h2><ul><li>CLIP skip: -2</li><li>VAE and CLIPs baked in</li><li>Practically all Schedulers and Samplers supported by Illustrious will work with QCC</li><li>CFG: 3 to 6. Steps: 20 - 40. This is just a simple guideline, please experiment by all means</li><li>Works very well with <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/1608870/dmd2-speed-lora-sdxl-pony-illustrious?modelVersionId=1820946">DMD2 Speed Lora</a> (CFG: 1 - 1.5, Steps 8 - 12; again feel free to experiment)</li></ul>I think that's it. What are you waiting for? Go generate some cool images with Quaintly Chaotic Comtesse and share it in the gallery!

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