>>26536
Not gonna lie the hat being missing is probably my fault.
I trained the dataset to consider the clothes *separate* from the character, by tagging the clothes in the image so that the lora trained less on it.
The bonnet would've appeared more consistently had I tagged it in my generation prompts. Similarly, I was getting red hair and white sclera until I forced it to be correct with my prompts. The winged arms were also missing until I tagged it.
Custom loras being easy to make? Depends on your personal patience and autism level. I can probably make a dataset for one in at most an hour or two, but 15-30 minutes if I don't really care about scrutinizing the tags. After that, it depends on how good your GPU is. You could maybe pull by on an 11gb VRAM gpu and low quality LORA settings, but it would take several hours.
These are generally the programs I use.
LORA Training Reference Guide:
https://rentry.co/qab9g
Kohya SS GUI (Lets you train LORAs with a GUI interface and config options):
https://github.com/bmaltais/kohya_ss
Taggui (Lets you prune or batch add tags to images, remove duplicate tags, and auto-caption images reliably with something like waifu diffusion. You shouldn't rely on it fully, but it does most of the work):
https://github.com/jhc13/taggui
Imgbrd Grabber (This is a great one.
Automatically harvests images from imageboards and you can configure it to
generate caption files the training script uses,
by downloading the imageboard tags for the image to a file.
Which by default, are named like so (image1.png -> image1.txt):
https://github.com/Bionus/imgbrd-grabber
Just go to Tools -> Options
Then inside, Save -> Filename, set tags separator to ", "
Save -> Separate log files
-Suffix without extension
-Suffix .txt
Text file content - %all%
Side note about captioning-
I've found the pruning strategy that works best
is purging/deleting all tags you want the LORA
to learn about your character, then making the
*first tag* an ID for your character. Like "MonGirl, 1girl, whatever"
You could then use MonGirl to tell the AI that you
want to generate the lora subject.
You can use some Taggui features to do that easily.
Hope this helps if anyone actually wants to try
training loras. I used to do this shit basically by
hand so it's definitely far better than it used to be.
>>26584
Maybe, I think it mostly depends on personal
interest. I made a lot of LORAs privately for
myself way back when, but I never posted them
on Civit because I was worried people would call
them shit lol.
A lot of the LORAs I made back then have
already been released by someone publicly though.
Like, I made quite a few MGQ loras a while back.
I think I'm better at making them than I used to be.