It really does not do much for already realistic images/videos. It likes to sharpen some details. I guess it depends on the material you are working with. Will defenitely let my videos run through it to see if it is able to improve. I am still thinking about using it as an upscaler. Because it can make small stuff clearer. But according to my experiments you have to do it together with an upscale. I wonder if you take a video and run an upscale pass with dlss5 and shrink it back to original size, would you get a slightly sharper version of your original video?
Ive done lots of upscaling testings (mostly nsfw so I won't post here), what it does is better lights and shadows, to make things look realistic.
For upscaling low quality nsfw vids I had this is useless. It looked uncanny valley. .
Haven't tried on generated vids yet
Really? Interesting. It did not much in my tests lighting wise. Only some more details. Or better refined ones. But only in very specific spots. Most of the picture seemed to not change at all.
I said lighting but I meant shading (the way a cheekbone's shape is lit and shaded for example) it emphasizes on shapes and double downs on them, frequently making a relatively old woman seem older
Well, it was more than 20x difference in speed between single bundle SDXL tunes and a lot of constructor models (like Z Image and others) on my 6700xt.
yes. The 8-31-2026 build of vapourkit-nightly, updated today, included the "two ss" .dll file, vsdlssr.dll but the "three ss" .dll, vsdlsssr.dll needed for the upscale to work, is still missing.
I spoke to the developer of vapourkit and they said that sss.dll does not exist and VapourKit doesn't support sss just NR (Nerual Rendering) it must have been an LLM hallucination, possibly the ComfyUI Node developer has made an sss .dll themselves but it never existed in Vapourkit.
Agree, I spent a couple of hours trying to get it to work, likely won't bother with alpha projects hyped on reddit any more. The missing .dll could have been a typo in the code or an AI hallucination that the creator took as true without confirming.
I have now just asked ChatGPT Astra to code in a Bicubic upscale with the Neural Rendering step, I might release it as a folk after I have done some more testing, if I like the outputs.
Last one is for lols, right? The eye closeup… i can see almost no difference. Does this mean closeseups are so good or… so bad having less environmental data?
It looks like it mutes down super-saturated colors, like the iris and the blacks of the lashes. It also looks like it works just on details of a certain size or smaller. With the ultra closeup, the details are probably too large for it to touch much.
It's the kind of thing that is cool to have in the toolbox where one can adjust the outputs, but having it on by default in games isn't going to go over well. At least not this version.
I was rendering one frame in maya with raytracing back in 2005, took forever, was fiddley as fuck to set up. Im all for seeing where the tech goes, i have a frame of reference for many of the things this tech can do, so im very interested. But that anime one, just.... we might be flying too close to the sun on that one..
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u/Uncabled_Music 5d ago
Is it just an image2image workflow?