2000s-analog-core/info.txt

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  2000S ANALOG CORE
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  IDENTITY
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  Base model        Krea 2
  Generation mode   not declared by the author
  Checkpoint        not determined — verify before use
  Category          Visual style
  Author            Danrisi
  Source            https://civitai.com/models/1134895
  Provenance        CivitAI · model 1134895 · version 3103914

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  WEIGHTS
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  File              vhs_krea2.safetensors
  Version           v1.0 Krea2
  Size              109.0 MB
  Format            SafeTensor / unknown precision
  SHA256            cef79e53f88941e29ea7211543f624981207e32f15abef80c56fea3d0676e533
  Published         2026-07-06

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  TRIGGER WORDS
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  No trigger word. The LoRA applies as soon as it is loaded —
  strength is the only way to dial the effect up or down.

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  RECOMMENDED SETTINGS
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  Taken verbatim from the author's description:

  LoRA strength       0.9
  Sampler steps       40
  Resolution          704×704

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  ADOPTION & POPULARITY
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  Downloads               30,523
  Rating                  100% positive (2334/2336)
  Comments                0
  Published               60 days ago
  Download rate           89.9/day since release

  Adoption rank           #18 of 150 in this collection  (High)
  Momentum rank           #30 of 150 by download rate  (Trending)

  Adoption tier is the percentile of total downloads within this collection;
  momentum is the percentile of downloads-per-day since release. Momentum is
  ranked rather than measured against a fixed rate, because this base model
  is itself new and every LoRA looks fast on an absolute scale. Both numbers
  are CivitAI's, read on the scrape date at the foot of this file.

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  CHAINING / STACKING
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  Stacks with others      not stated

  The author gave no chaining guidance. The rules below are the
  general Krea 2 ones, not anything specific to this LoRA.

  General Krea 2 rules that apply here (see REFERENCE.txt):

  • The most important rule is not about chaining but about which
    checkpoint you chain onto: the official README says in bold "TRAIN on
    Raw and RUN on Turbo", and "We highly recommend using RAW for training
    LoRAs and applying them on Turbo for inference." LoRAs trained on Raw
    are stated to work well on Turbo.
  • Chain with LoraLoaderModelOnly nodes in series (model -> model). Krea 2
    LoRAs are DiT-only, so there is no CLIP side to chain and the text-
    encoder branch stays untouched however many LoRAs you add.
  • Krea 2 LoRAs stack in practice and the community treats multi-LoRA as
    routine - style + character, style + slider, realism + character.
    Several CivitAI Krea 2 authors state their LoRAs stack cleanly; one
    writes "I recently stacked over 20 of my own LoRAs on a single
    generation and the output still came out great."
  • Reduce per-LoRA strength when stacking. CivitAI Krea 2 authors converge
    on dropping from ~1.0 to roughly 0.6-0.9 once more than one adapter is
    loaded. The CivitAI 12GB training guide also notes rank affects
    composability: "rank 8 produced a lighter style influence that was
    easier to stack with other LoRAs, rank 16 provided a useful balance
    between concept strength and composability, and rank 32 was better
    suited to a precise object or concept intended to take priority over
    other stacked LoRAs."
  • Accelerator LoRAs are position-sensitive in intent, not in node order:
    a Raw-to-Turbo delta adapter belongs on the Raw checkpoint, a
    sub-8-step LoRA belongs on Turbo (or on Raw already carrying a Raw-to-
    Turbo adapter). Chaining Raw -> Raw-to-Turbo adapter -> 4-step LoRA is
    explicitly recommended by the 4-step LoRA's author.
  • Whatever you stack, the schedule must stay Turbo's: cfg 1.0 in ComfyUI
    (guidance 0.0 in diffusers) and mu/shift 1.15. The 4-step LoRA's card
    says "Keep mu = 1.15. The training targets are anchored to that grid; a
    different shift moves the [sampler off them]"; the same reasoning
    applies to any Turbo-trained adapter in the chain.
  • Reference/edit LoRAs are designed to be stacked under ordinary subject
    and style LoRAs - the Identity Edit card states "Composes with your
    LoRAs: character/body/style LoRAs stack on top and steer the prior" and
    recommends a stacked subject LoRA when unusual subjects drift toward
    the base prior.
  • Krea 2 LoRAs cannot be chained with LoRAs for any other base model.
    Many CivitAI pages carry multi-model titles like "(Krea-2 + ZIT)" or
    "[Flux | ZIB | Krea2]" - those are separate files for separate
    architectures shipped under one model page, not a combined adapter.
  • To combine two full Krea 2 checkpoints rather than adapters, ComfyUI
    ships a dedicated ModelMergeKrea2 node (added in v0.27.0) with per-
    section weights for first., tmlp., txtmlp., tproj.,
    txtfusion.projector, txtfusion.layerwise_blocks.0-1,
    txtfusion.refiner_blocks.0-1, blocks.0-27 and last.
  • The author never states which weight family this targets. Silent
    degradation, never a hard error, between Raw and Turbo. The two share
    one architecture - ai-toolkit's config is commented "The reference
    'single_mmdit_large_wide' architecture (oss_raw / oss_turbo share it)"
    - so every LoRA tensor shape matches on both and ComfyUI/diffuser

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  PROS
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  + Widely adopted — 30,523 downloads. [source: CivitAI stats]
  + Positively received — 2,334 thumbs-up, 2 down. [source: CivitAI stats]
  + Compact at 109 MB — cheap to stack with other LoRAs. [source: file
    size]
  + Author published concrete recommended settings. [source: description]

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  CONS & CAVEATS
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  - No trigger word — the LoRA is always on once loaded, so strength is the
    only control. [source: model metadata]
  - Author never states which generation mode it was trained for; test
    against your own workflow before relying on it. [source: description]

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  COMPATIBILITY WARNING
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  Silent degradation, never a hard error, between Raw and Turbo. The two
  share one architecture - ai-toolkit's config is commented "The reference
  'single_mmdit_large_wide' architecture (oss_raw / oss_turbo share it)" - so
  every LoRA tensor shape matches on both and ComfyUI/diffusers will load an
  adapter against either without complaint. The lvladikov 4-step LoRA card
  states this for the reverse direction: "Every layer it targets also exists
  in Krea 2 Raw, so it will load there without complaint - but that is a side
  effect of the shared architecture, not a supported mode", and reports
  mixed, subject-dependent results with malformed subjects (duplicated heads,
  fused limbs) at low step counts, needing 14+ steps with Raw's CFG on before
  output is coherent. The intended direction (train on Raw, run on Turbo) is
  officially blessed. The more common practical failure is a settings
  mismatch rather than a weight mismatch: running a Turbo-targeted LoRA at
  Raw's 52 steps + CFG 3.5, or leaving CFG enabled on Turbo, degrades output
  with no warning. Loading a Krea 2 LoRA against a different model family
  entirely (Flux, Qwen-Image, Z-Image) is also not an error - ComfyUI logs
  "lora key not loaded: {key}" per key and generates as if no LoRA were
  applied.

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  AUTHOR'S DESCRIPTION
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  Z-Image I used at strength 0.9 with res_2s_ode + beta. Workflow you can
  parse from my images Qwen Edition: Here everything works perfectly,
  timestamps, text - excellent. Images with women i generate with my new lora
  https://civitai.com/models/1862761?modelVersionId=2338791 V3 Update:
  Enhanced Timestamps
  - Improved realism for on-screen display times and date stamps.

  - Face Fixes
  - Reduced the repetition of identical faces across generated frames,
  enhancing variety.

  - Expanded Dataset
  - Now trained on VHS, VHS-C, and Hi8 footage to broaden the analog
  aesthetic.

  Usage & Tips
  - Low-Res VHS Look:
  - Use prompts with phrases like “amateur quality” and “low resolution” to
  push your render toward that classic, fuzzy VHS vibe.

  - Target ~0.5 megapixels (e.g. 704×704, 608 x 816) if you want reinforce
  extreme lo-fi aesthetic.

  - Higher-Res Hi8 Style:
  - To achieve the “Hi8” look (cleaner but still analog), render at ~1
  megapixel (e.g. 896 x 1152 or 1024×1024).

  - You can go up to ~2 megapixels if you want more detail without losing the
  retro feel.

  - Recommended Trigger:
  - The only trigger word you truly need for this model is “v8s” .

  - Avoid mixing too many triggers, as that can introduce confusion and stray
  from the classic 2000s analog style. V2 Update:

  - Removed digital camera images from the dataset and added more footage
  from camcorders.

  - Fixed the issue where the same woman appeared in all images.

  - Tried improving the sexy overlay text on footage, but it only generates
  well sometimes.

  Can’t say I’m fully happy with this version, but it’s not bad. Already
  planning a new update with more features soon! Also thinking about updating
  the Mavica LoRA.
  This keeps your style while improving clarity and readability. Let me know
  if you want any tweaks P.S: but what i really like in this lora, that it's
  for some reason generate almost always perfect hands Step back into the
  early 2000s, where Myspace was king, profile pictures were taken with a
  digital potato, and everything felt just a little bit off (in the best
  way). This LoRA captures that lo-fi, analog aesthetic of forgotten VHS
  tapes and grainy digital cameras (yeah, i mix them in one LoRa). Perfect
  for those who miss the charm of pixelated edges and questionable lighting
  choices. No, it won't resurrect your old Myspace profile - sadly - but it
  will bring back all those nostalgic vibes. Warning: May cause a sudden urge
  to listen to emo playlists P.S.S: only v8s is needed in trigger words,
  everything else is optional to enhance effect Usage as usual: dpmpp2m +
  beta + 40 steps + 2.5-3 guidance I'm using with UltraReal checkpoint , but
  works good with default flux.dev too P.S: sometimes can be some timestamps
  or other features from vhs tapes (will be fixed in next versions). I just
  wanted to test some techniques on this LoRa and result is pretty solid for
  29 images in dataset. Also noticed one bug, that female faces often looks
  similar, will fix in next release. But LoRas wit characters works good and
  fix this problem

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  EXAMPLE MEDIA
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  6 preview(s) in ./example_images/ — community results for
  this LoRA. Videos keep a matching _poster.jpg still frame.

  No prompts are recorded below: CivitAI's public API flags these posts as
  having generation metadata but does not return it, so the prompts cannot be
  scraped. Open the model page to read them.

  01_image.jpeg  (image, 1472x1024)
  02_image.jpeg  (image, 1472x1024)
  03_image.jpeg  (image, 1472x1024)
  04_image.jpeg  (image, 1024x1472)
  05_image.jpeg  (image, 1408x1088)
  06_image.jpeg  (image, 1408x1088)

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  HOW TO USE (COMFYUI)
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  1. Update ComfyUI to at least v0.26.0 (released 2026-06-23), which added
  local Krea2 support. For reference-image / style-reference / edit LoRAs you
  need at least v0.29.0 (2026-07-29), which added regular and timestep-zero
  reference images for Krea 2. ModelMergeKrea2 arrived in v0.27.0
  (2026-06-30).

  2. Put the base stack in place (files from huggingface.co/Comfy-Org/Krea-2,
  which is not gated):
     - ComfyUI/models/diffusion_models/krea2_turbo_fp8_scaled.safetensors
  (documented recommended default; the repo also holds krea2_turbo_bf16,
  _int8_convrot, _mxfp8, _nvfp4 and krea2_raw_bf16 / _fp8_scaled /
  _int8_convrot)
     - ComfyUI/models/text_encoders/qwen3vl_4b_fp8_scaled.safetensors (bf16
  also available)
     - ComfyUI/models/vae/qwen_image_vae.safetensors

  3. Put the LoRA .safetensors in ComfyUI/models/loras/ - flat, no per-model
  subfolder required.

  4. Build or load the graph. The official image_krea2_turbo_t2i.json
  template is: UNETLoader (krea2_turbo_fp8_scaled.safetensors) ->
  LoraLoaderModelOnly -> KSampler; CLIPLoader
  (qwen3vl_4b_fp8_scaled.safetensors, type "krea2") -> text encode ->
  KSampler positive, with ConditioningZeroOut into negative; VAELoader
  (qwen_image_vae.safetensors) -> VAEDecode -> SaveImage; EmptyLatentImage
  1024x1024 driven by ResolutionSelector. An int8 sibling template
  (image_krea2_turbo_t2i_int8.json) also ships.

  5. Load the LoRA with LoraLoaderModelOnly, not LoraLoader - both official
  templates do. Krea 2 LoRAs patch the DiT only; note that the DiT's own
  text_fusion / txtfusion blocks are a normal LoRA target (the official style
  LoRAs patch them), but the Qwen3-VL text encoder itself is not. Set
  strength 1.0 for Krea's official style LoRAs (the shipped template uses
  0.8) and add the LoRA's trigger word to the prompt.

  6. Sampler settings: steps 8, cfg 1, sampler euler, scheduler simple,
  denoise 1.0. Do not add a ModelSampling node for plain t2i - ComfyUI
  already applies shift 1.15 from Krea2.sampling_settings.

  7. For style reference, use the dedicated template: UNETLoader
  krea2_turbo_int8_convrot.safetensors, LoraLoaderModelOnly
  krea2_style_reference.safetensors at 1.0, ModelSamplingFlux (1.15, 0.5),
  TextEncodeQwenImageEditPlus fed by LoadImage,
  FluxKontextMultiReferenceLatentMethod set to index_timestep_zero, and
  SamplerCustomAdvanced with KSamplerSelect euler + BasicScheduler simple/8 +
  CFGGuider cfg 1.

  8. For instruction editing (Krea 2 Identity Edit), stock nodes are not
  enough: install the ComfyUI-Krea2Edit node pack, which ships its own
  workflows, and run Turbo at 8-12 steps / cfg 1 (or Raw at 20 steps / cfg 3
  for removals) with LoRA strength 1.0.

  9. Low-VRAM alternative: install city96's ComfyUI-GGUF and use a community
  GGUF build (realrebelai/KREA-2_GGUFs, quantized from Turbo;
  molbal/krea2-gguf, quantized from Raw) with the Unet Loader (GGUF) node in
  place of UNETLoader. There is no official GGUF release. LoRA loading is
  unchanged.

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  Scraped by lorakit on 2026-09-05 00:11 UTC.
  Stats and description are the author's; pros/cons are derived from the
  evidence tagged beside each line.
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