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Boreal HL

8189°
Boreal HL
Created by
kudzueye
on Civitai
by Kudzueye - realism effect video lora. makes videos look like ordinary real everyday footage
Creator notes
QUICK UPDATE: Please be aware that this LoRA is still very experimental and can be still be very difficult to get good results. I will continue to explore ways to improve on the training and workflow. If you notice anything unusual about the results, or have any suggestions on improving the training or workflow feel free to let me know. Boreal-HL: Boring Reality Hunyuan LoRA This model is my first attempt at improving the realism details of Hunyuan videos. It focuses on creating more natural backgrounds without shallow depths of field, better skin texture, more realistic lighting, and overall increase in details in a scene. I followed previous practices in training my other boring reality models where I try to use as diverse of a group of public domain and AI generated photos as possible. IMPORTANT NOTES FOR USING THIS LORA: This LoRA is very over-trained. In most scenarios keeping strength at around 0.6 should be good enough. Some prompts and seeds and what not can handle higher strength and give better quality but it is not very consistent. I have only tested this LoRA so far on the . It is still early in the process of working with Hunyuan workflows and model training so there is still a lot of potential for further improvements down the road here. Starting out recommended settings: - LoRA Strength: 0.6 (0.4-0.9 is the range I mostly worked with if this is the primary lora you are using) - Resolution: I would start with something like 512x768 for resolution with a 1.5x upscale. Go higher if not using the upscale. Vertical aspect ratios give more boring realism while wider aspect ratios will make it more cinematic. - GUIDANCE: I would start out with a higher guidance like 12.5. It will prevent a lot deformation though you will run into issues such as characters with the same face or same scene. I like to push it down to 3.5 guidance for more interesting images/videos but you have to really work around the seeds/resolution/lora strength to not get a disfigured mess. - STEPS: I recommend having a minimum of maybe 30 steps for at least that workflow. You will get better results though if you get up to 55 or so - SEED: Be mindful to try swapping out seeds as some will work far better than others. - Prompt Recommendations: Try to be descriptive where possible about the actual things and actions in the scene. If you do not provide enough info you may end up with a boring background or a character that always looks the same. As a general rule of thumb when dealing with distortion try raising the guidance, swapping the seeds, reducing the LoRA strength, increasing the steps, be more descriptive in the prompt, and raise the resolution. As a general rule to reduce the generic AI look and same characters appearing, try to reduce the guidance, maybe raise the LoRA strength, be more descriptive in the prompt, and swap the seed. Another note, is that sometimes combing the LoRA with another motion oriented LoRA may lead to more stability in the video output. Image Generation Capabilities This LoRA can also generate decent images at times via the first frame. Sometimes they may be more distorted than grabbing a frame from a longer video, so you may need to experiment with the settings mentioned above. I think Hunyuan has a lot of potential to be the next best text2image model. It will take some time though to find a better workflow for utilizing it and maybe improving on the model training. Additional Info Video for better demonstrating the different aspects of the LoRA.
4,060 downloads · 399 likes on Civitai
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Boreal HL Popularity Trend
Heat score, last 12 months
Heat score
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Boreal HL: Heat score, last 12 months7,000°7,412°7,825°8,237°8,650°Oct 2025Dec 2025Mar 2026May 2026Aug 2026Oct 20268,189°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.
+1,083°
Civitai downloads
4,060 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.
+390°
Likes
399 likes and thumbs up across the sources. A like weighs half a download, on the same log scale.
−284°
Age
−284° because the Huny weights came out in 2024. 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 8,189°, 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.
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    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
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    Add the downloads.
    4,060 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.
    +1,083°
    8,083°
    running total
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    Add the likes.
    399 likes and thumbs up, at half the weight of a download.
    +390°
    8,473°
    running total
  4. 4
    Take off the age.
    The Huny weights came out in 2024: 150° a year, up to 750°, growing until then.
    −284°
    8,189°
    running total
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    The heat score.
    Where this model stands on every list of this site. Nothing else adjusts it.
    8,189°
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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