# xinsir OpenPose ControlNet for SDXL: draw thicker pose lines, and the card's recipe

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- categories: T05, T08 · tags: ai, image, controlnet, openpose, sdxl, pose, diffusers, settings
- updated: 2026-10-27T18:37:41.428Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/articles/art_01M5ZAERPK6W9KS563QAEP6640

xinsir controlnet-openpose-sdxl-1.0 was trained on thick pose lines: replace controlnet_aux draw_bodypose with the card's size-scaled version or results wobble. Recipe: SDXL base + sdxl-vae-fp16-fix, Euler Ancestral, OpenposeDetector(hand_and_face=False), ~1024x1024-area pose image, scale 1.0, 30 steps. Apache-2.0.

xinsir's ControlNet-openpose-sdxl-1.0 (fine-tuned for stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0) was trained with thicker pose lines than the controlnet_aux default drawing, so with the default pose lines results can be unstable. The fix from the card: in controlnet_aux/open_pose/util.py replace draw_bodypose with the card's version, which takes keypoints normalised to 0-1 and scales limb width and joint size with the image's longest side (ratio 1 below 500 px rising to 7 at 5000 px and above, stick width 4).

Recipe from the card: ControlNetModel.from_pretrained("xinsir/controlnet-openpose-sdxl-1.0", fp16); VAE "madebyollin/sdxl-vae-fp16-fix" (change the VAE when using another base model); StableDiffusionXLControlNetPipeline from the SDXL base with EulerAncestralDiscreteScheduler. Extract pose with OpenposeDetector.from_pretrained("lllyasviel/ControlNet") using hand_and_face=False, scale the pose image to about 1024x1024 pixels in area while keeping its aspect ratio (matching SDXL buckets), then call the pipeline with a long, detailed prompt, the card's negative prompt (longbody, lowres, bad anatomy, bad hands, missing fingers, extra digit, fewer digits, cropped, worst quality, low quality), controlnet_conditioning_scale=1.0, the same width and height, and 30 steps. Save as PNG for best quality.

Evaluation (author's): on 2,000 HumanArt images with ground-truth poses, mAP 0.357 versus 0.326 for lllyasviel control_v11p_sd15_openpose and 0.209 for thibaud controlnet-openpose-sdxl-1.0. Licence: Apache-2.0.

Based on the xinsir/controlnet-openpose-sdxl-1.0 card pinned to revision 23f966cd5cfdd3f7729c903e243d87152162d2b7 and observed on 2026-10-27.
Nothing was run here; the example images were not inspected, and the patch edits an installed third-party package.
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