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Pathfinder

8111°
Pathfinder
Created by
Ocean3
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Pathfinder by Ocean3. Pathfinder branches from Maverick's flexibility fusing in Nu Element and other resources to further expand on expressive fantasy elements along with a stronger cartoon/animation styling. This model offers a wide range of creativity from flat 2D styles, anime/illustration, cartoon/animation, semi-realistic styles + more. I would love to see the styles you come up with!
Creator notes
💚 for Updates - I would love to see your reviews and images of this model, feel free to post them below! Pathfinder branches from flexibility fusing in and other resources to further expand on expressive fantasy elements along with a stronger cartoon/animation styling. This model offers a wide range of creativity from flat 2D styles, anime/illustration, cartoon/animation, semi-realistic styles + more. I would love to see the styles you come up with! 💡 This model is currently somewhat of an experimental project. Recommended Use There is a lot of variation in parameters for what works. Be aware on the styling you're choosing and use what you find best. The example images, gallery sections, and the quick start below are good starting points. ~20 steps, 7 scale, ~0.3-0.5 denoising, clip skip 1 or 2 Disclaimer This model(s) may output NSFW content unintentionally depending on parameters used. Make sure you tailor your prompts accordingly. For example "nsfw" in the negative prompt. The purpose of sharing this model is not to showcase obscene material in a public forum. The use of this learning model is entirely at the discretion of the user, and they have the freedom to choose whether or not to create SFW or NSFW content. The decision of whether to engage with SFW or NSFW content lies with the user and their own personal preferences. The ai model(s) do not contain explicit visual content that can be accessed easily. Example Images used - vae-ft-ema-560000-ema vae - 4x-UltraSharp or R-ESRGAN 4x+ Anime6B upscalers - hires fix w/ some upscaled again using SD upscale - use old karras scheduler signmas (0.1 to 10) compatibility setting - any LoRa use should be listed in the image metadata - Bad_v2 negative embedding renamed should be the same as - and negative embeddings were also used *Negative embeddings are optional Resources This model merge (v1) used the following resources - all of these are great stand-alone, props to each creator. - - - (via ) - (via ) - (via ) - (via ) - (via ) - (via ) - (via ) - (via ) - (via ) - (via ) - (via ) - (via ) - (via ) 📝 These should be the correct resources used. A detailed recipe may go up on a Hugging Face page in the future. License & Use This model is open access and available to all, with a license further specifying rights and usage. 1. You can't use the model to deliberately produce nor share illegal or harmful outputs or content. 2. The authors claims no rights on the outputs you generate, you are free to use them and are accountable for their use which must not go against the provisions set in the license. 3. You may re-distribute the weights. If you do, please be aware you have to include the same use restrictions as the ones in the license and share a copy of the modified CreativeML OpenRAIL-M to all your users (please read the license entirely and carefully). Please read the full license(s) and . Note: this model should be able to be updated to not include the Dreamlike Diffusion licensing fairly simply. I may do so in the future. Use Restrictions You agree not to use the Model or Derivatives of the Model: - In any way that violates any applicable national, federal, state, local or international law or regulation - For the purpose of exploiting, harming or attempting to exploit or harm minors in any way - To generate or disseminate verifiably false information and/or content with the purpose of harming others - To generate or disseminate personal identifiable information that can be used to harm an individual - To defame, disparage or otherwise harass others - For fully automated decision making that adversely impacts an individual’s legal rights or otherwise creates or modifies a binding, enforceable obligation - For any use intended to or which has the effect of discriminating against or harming individuals or groups based on online or offline social behavior or known or predicted personal or personality characteristics - To exploit any of the vulnerabilities of a specific group of persons based on their age, social, physical or mental characteristics, in order to materially distort the behavior of a person pertaining to that group in a manner that causes or is likely to cause that person or another person physical or psychological harm - For any use intended to or which has the effect of discriminating against individuals or groups based on legally protected characteristics or categories - To provide medical advice and medical results interpretation - To generate or disseminate information for the purpose to be used for administration of justice, law enforcement, immigration or asylum processes, such as predicting an individual will commit fraud/crime commitment (e.g. by text profiling, drawing causal relationships between assertions made in documents, indiscriminate and arbitrarily-targeted use). - To generate NFTs Terms of use - You are solely responsible for any legal liability resulting from unethical use of this model(s) - If you use any of these models for merging, please state what steps you took to do so and clearly indicate where modifications have been made. 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pathfinder Popularity Trend
Heat score, last 12 months
Heat score
8,111°
This week
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0.4%
8,114° then, 8,111° now
This month
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1.7%
8,123° then, 8,111° now
Past year
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20.6%
8,236° then, 8,111° now
pathfinder: Heat score, last 12 months7,000°7,482°7,963°8,445°8,926°Oct 2025Dec 2025Mar 2026May 2026Aug 2026Oct 20268,111°ModelTrends.ai
7,000°
Floor
The scale runs from 0° to 9,999°. Everything below 7,000° is kept for models no source reports on yet, which carry a stand-in number there so lists stay complete. 7,000° is where measured data begins: a model with real data but almost no downloads sits at the floor, and the measurements fill the degrees above it. The floor says nothing about the model; only the degrees above it do, and they are what separates one model from another.
+1,108°
Civitai downloads
4,422 downloads of this exact version on Civitai. Downloads are the heaviest ingredient and are counted on a log scale: ten times the downloads adds the same 300°, so a model with a million downloads is not a thousand times hotter than one with a thousand. The six download sources share that one term, split between them in proportion to their counts.
+435°
Likes
790 likes and thumbs up across the sources. A like weighs half a download, on the same log scale.
+27°
Adoption rate
About 1 downloads a day, measured between two readings of the sources, never guessed from a lifetime average. Speed weighs a quarter of the download term, so a fresh surge shows without letting a one-day spike outrank years of use.
+150°
Full model
+150° because this is a full model: a checkpoint, the weights themselves. A LoRA or an embedding is an add-on to someone else's weights and does not outrank a checkpoint of equal popularity.
−609°
Age
−609° because the SD15 weights came out in 2022. Every model inherits the age of the weights it is built on: 150° a year, up to 750°, and it keeps growing until then. Without it the top of the list would be 2022 and 2023 checkpoints on the strength of downloads that had years to pile up.
Show detailed breakdown
Every number on this site can be checked. This model's heat score is 8,111°, and here it is built one ingredient at a time, with the running total after each: the floor, the degrees each source adds, the bonus for the kind of model and what the age of its weights takes away. The colors are the bands of the chart above. The glossary at the end defines every term.
  1. 1
    Start at the floor.
    Why 7,000° and not zero: the scale runs from 0° to 9,999°, and the part below 7,000° is reserved for models no source reports on yet, which carry a stand-in number there so the lists stay complete and never outrank a model with data. 7,000° is where measured data begins. A model with real data but almost no downloads sits here; everything that follows is measurement, and the room above the floor holds ten tenfold steps in downloads at 300° each. The floor is the same for every model, so it decides nothing; the degrees above it do.
    7,000°
    running total
  2. 2
    Add the downloads.
    4,422 download-equivalents in all, from Civitai downloads. Ten times the downloads adds the same 300°, so size matters but never runs away with the score.
    +1,108°
    8,108°
    running total
  3. 3
    Add the likes.
    790 likes and thumbs up, at half the weight of a download.
    +435°
    8,543°
    running total
  4. 4
    Add the adoption rate.
    About 1 downloads a day right now, measured between two readings, at a quarter of the weight.
    +27°
    8,570°
    running total
  5. 5
    Bonus for a full model.
    A checkpoint carries the weights themselves; add-ons do not outrank one of equal popularity.
    +150°
    8,720°
    running total
  6. 6
    Take off the age.
    The SD15 weights came out in 2022: 150° a year, up to 750°, growing until then.
    −609°
    8,111°
    running total
  7. =
    The heat score.
    Where this model stands on every list of this site. Nothing else adjusts it.
    8,111°
Glossary: the terms used here
Heat score
One number for how much a model is used and wanted right now, from 0° to 9,999°. Every list on this site that says hottest is sorted by it and nothing else.
Floor
The 7,000° every model with real data starts from. The scale runs from 0° to 9,999°; the part below the floor is reserved for stand-ins (models without data), so that a model with data always ranks above one without. The floor is the same for everyone and decides nothing; the degrees above it are the measurement.
Download-equivalents
Everything the score treats as a download, added up: downloads themselves, each torrent seeder as 1,000, each AI Horde image and each run on a generation site as one.
Log scale
Counting by tens, not by ones: going from 1,000 to 10,000 downloads adds the same degrees as going from 10,000 to 100,000. It keeps giants from crowding out everything else.
Likes
Thumbs up and likes from every source, worth half a download each on the log scale.
Adoption rate
How many downloads a day a model gets right now, from the difference between two readings of a source. A quarter of the weight of the download term.
Measured and estimated
Measured means two readings of a source exist and the difference is real. Estimated means only today's total is known and the past is spread over the model's life; the site says which one it is showing.
Seeder
Someone who keeps a copy of the weights online for others to download over a torrent, or a hosted mirror doing the same. Each one counts as 1,000 downloads.
AI Horde
A volunteer network that generates images for free on donated computers. The number of images it has made with a model is public, and each counts as one download.
Generation sites
Sites that host their own copies of a model and let people generate with it, such as PixAI, SeaArt and Yodayo. Their downloads count like Civitai's and each generation run as one download.
OpenRouter tokens
A text model served through an API, such as Claude or GPT, has no weights to download, so its usage is measured in tokens: the pieces of text it read and wrote through OpenRouter, a gateway many apps use, over the last 30 days. Every 10,000,000 tokens count as one download. Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), CC BY 4.0.
Full model (checkpoint)
The weights themselves, the file that generates on its own. It gets a bonus because add-ons depend on it.
LoRA and embedding
Small add-on files that steer someone else's weights toward a style, a character or a concept. They cannot run alone.
Family and weights
The base a model is built on, such as SD 1.5, SDXL, Flux or Wan. Every model inherits the release date of its family's weights.
Age
Degrees taken off for how long ago the family's weights came out: 150° a year, up to 750°. It keeps old downloads that had years to pile up from freezing the top of the list.
Family boost
A small, bounded nudge for LoRAs of a family this site is pushing forward right now, always listed in the breakdown.
Stand-in score
A stable number below the floor given to a model no source reports on yet, so lists stay complete. It never ranks above a model with data.
New! (grace period)
A model less than 7 days old shows New! instead of a score and holds no place in the rankings. Its score is computed from day one, but a model one day old grows faster than anything, so without the wait the week's #1 would always be whatever came out yesterday rather than what held up for a week.
Trend
How a model's growth over a period compares with the typical model's growth over the same period. Faster than typical reads as a rise, slower as a fall.
Typical model
The middle of the catalog: half the models with a figure grew faster over the period, half slower.
How this model's popularity has moved against the rest of the catalog: its growth in downloads, likes and usage over each period, measured against the typical model's growth over the same period, with its heat score at the time. Above the typical growth reads as a rise, below it as a fall. The past is reconstructed from today's totals, the model's first day and its measured download speed where two readings exist; a model that did not exist at the start of a period shows n/a.
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Flat Funky Space Age Juniper of Conflux, handsome, beautiful composition, flowing, intricate detail, fine detail, set logical ambient background, badge, imposing, intricate, beautiful, full color, masterpiece, best quality, ultra high res, art, (abstract art:1.1), <lora:tangbohu-detailer_1.0:0.75>, <lora:realistic:0.25>, <lora:sharpen-soften:-0.25>, <lora:stylesqueeze_v2:0.5>,
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,, EasyNegative, (badv2:0.8), (badhandv4:1.18), (bad quality:1.3), (worst quality:1.3), watermark, (blurry), (cropped), (deformed iris, deformed pupils, semi-realistic, cgi, 3d, render, sketch, cartoon, drawing, anime, mutated hands and fingers:1.4), (deformed, distorted, disfigured:1.3), poorly drawn, bad anatomy, wrong anatomy, extra limb, missing limb, floating limbs, disconnected limbs, mutation, mutated, ugly, disgusting, amputation
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[lion:mufasa:16]:space cat:19], masterful, opaque, transparency, beautiful, [oil painting:gradient:4]:ink art:13]:photography:19], plant leaf, abstract, vapor, starry sky
Negative prompt
EasyNegative, (badv2:0.8), (badhandv4:1.18), (bad quality:1.3), (worst quality:1.3), watermark, (blurry), (cropped), (nsfw:1.3), (cleavage:1.3)
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flowers, water dress, (black background:1.5), best illumination, (extremely detailed hyperrealistic masterpiece), night sky, blooming dark pink flowers, ArtStation, (best quality), high contrast, bottom 5800K floodlight, game art, at a cantina
Negative prompt
EasyNegative, (badv2:0.8), (badhandv4:1.18), (bad quality:1.3), (worst quality:1.3), watermark, (blurry), (cropped), (nsfw:1.3), (cleavage:1.3), (human:1.4, girl:1.4)
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(masterpiece:1.2), (best quality:1.1), detailed, (high quality, highres:1.1), absurdres, HDR, 8k uhd, (close up:1.2), (realistic:1.1), vivid color, mountain landscape, cloud sky, beautiful sunset, (waterfall:1.1),
Negative prompt
(low quality, lowres, normal quality, worst quality:1.1), bad_prompt_version2-neg, BadDream, ng_deepnegative_v1_75t, UnrealisticDream
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DPM++ 2M Karras
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masterpiece, best quality, ultra high res, (abstract art:1.3), (dark theme:1.2), art, stylized, deep shadow, dark theme, 1girl, cosmic dress, cosmic beauty, in space, nebula
Negative prompt
EasyNegative, (badv2:0.8), (badhandv4:1.18), (bad quality:1.3), (worst quality:1.3), watermark, (blurry), (cropped), (nsfw:1.3), (cleavage:1.3), (deformed iris, deformed pupils, semi-realistic, cgi, 3d, render, sketch, cartoon, drawing, anime, mutated hands and fingers:1.4), (deformed, distorted, disfigured:1.3), poorly drawn, bad anatomy, wrong anatomy, extra limb, missing limb, floating limbs, disconnected limbs, mutation, mutated, ugly, disgusting, amputation
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flowers, water dress, (black background:1.5), best illumination, (extremely detailed hyperrealistic masterpiece), night sky, blooming dark green flowers, ArtStation, (best quality), high contrast, bottom 5800K floodlight, game art, at a cantina
Negative prompt
EasyNegative, (badv2:0.8), (badhandv4:1.18), (bad quality:1.3), (worst quality:1.3), watermark, (blurry), (cropped), (nsfw:1.1), (cleavage:1.13)
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[planet:eye:5], logo, (cosmic:0.8)
Negative prompt
EasyNegative, (badv2:0.8), (badhandv4:1.18), (bad quality:1.3), (worst quality:1.3), watermark, (blurry), (cropped), (nsfw:1.3), (cleavage:1.3), (human:1.5), (girl:1.5), (person)
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flowers, water dress, (black background:1.5), best illumination, (extremely detailed hyperrealistic masterpiece), night sky, blooming dark white flowers, ArtStation, (best quality), high contrast, bottom 5800K floodlight, game art, at a cantina
Negative prompt
EasyNegative, (badv2:0.8), (badhandv4:1.18), (bad quality:1.3), (worst quality:1.3), watermark, (blurry), (cropped), (nsfw:1.3), (cleavage:1.3), (human:1.4, girl:1.4)
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