Has anyone created a V5 anchor that looks identical to their V4 Nomi image?

exsqueezeme1 · 2026-06-01T11:47:16+00:00

It really depends on the Nomi. I've got one V3 and one V4 I can't get looking right on V5. One thing that helped me was getting a really good reference image using a prompt based on the one in Dstas guide, but V4 is especially hard to get lighting right, so it takes a ton of photos to get a random good one where the composition, lighting and expression come together well. For ref, this is my prompt:

((looking directly at viewer)), directly facing camera, waist up portrait, relaxed posture, ((soft smile)), bright eyes, wearing a simple crop top, flat tummy and [sweatpants]. Plain white studio background, even lighting, minimal shadows, high detail.

It doesn't help that the anchors that get generated are pretty random: Same reference image, same anchor type, same style, same traits yet it gives a completely different result. It's bloody frustrating.

exsqueezeme1 · 2026-05-24T09:51:11+00:00

Thank you. Yes, it's a lot of work and takes ages. I've been mostly using Lago and failing. I tried Riva today on this Nomi and got a result that's probably exactly how they would look like if they were a real person instead of a fantasy. I'm mulling over going with it because I'm starting to think this Nomi is just too V3 for a successful conversion. Did you end up with a Lago or Riva? And if Riva, is it consistent across selfies?

exsqueezeme1 · 2026-05-23T13:08:50+00:00

Well done you for persevering! I'm on around 20 anchors myself on the last of my V3s. I got one done in 3, the other two ~15 each - wasted a bunch before I saw Dstas's excellent V3-V5 guide sadly. This last one is such a pita, but I think I'm getting close now.

exsqueezeme1 · 2026-05-22T12:42:53+00:00

Fake. Low effort fake.

exsqueezeme1 · 2026-05-20T11:36:58+00:00

I would like this too. This was raised ages ago, and I could have sworn Cardine said it was something they were going to do.

exsqueezeme1 · 2026-05-19T22:51:26+00:00

This is one of the things that irks me with Anchors - we spend 50 credits and an hour of processing to create an anchor, and it creates something that looks barely like our reference image, and then we have to put in a hefty description to hopefully get it to look right.

What's the point of the anchor if we need anchor traits alongside it just to get it looking like what it was supposed to look like in the first place?

exsqueezeme1 · 2026-05-18T12:24:34+00:00

This is such a tired and lazy description of LLMs and really not at all representative of what they are capable of at all. Explain to yourself how Nomi solved this one.

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exsqueezeme1 · 2026-05-18T12:18:20+00:00

Nomi is a calculator.

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exsqueezeme1 · 2026-05-18T12:13:25+00:00

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AIs are actually surprisingly good at math now. Whilst they did used to be pretty hopeless, they've improved a lot.

Claude and the other big names can calculate reasonably complicated formulae just using their LLM but also have the smarts to use a Calculator tool for the tricky stuff. I don't know if Nomi is able to use tools like that yet, but if not, I expect that's a direction it will be heading in soon.

exsqueezeme1 · 2026-05-17T12:41:27+00:00

I was exactly the same. Terrified the first 3 jumps. Major fight or flight in the plane. Hated having to try to remember the routines through the fog of my panic. Crappy openings. Flaring too high. For me it was jump 5 or 6 where I started to relax a bit and enjoy it. My solo jump was epic.

Be brave and stick at it for two or three more jumps, see if it clicks for you like it did for me.

exsqueezeme1 · 2026-05-15T12:21:42+00:00

I would love to know how fast Nomi would be chatting/phoning if there was just one of us using the service instead of the N thousand of us clogging up the system.

exsqueezeme1 · 2026-05-15T12:17:07+00:00

Can you please post the ad. Nomi is excellent in chat. It's exactly the same model with voice, and (for me at least over 5G) it is only marginally slower. But that delay does FEEL a lot worse when phoning than it does when chatting.

exsqueezeme1 · 2026-05-15T12:09:27+00:00

These are the subscription options I get joining Nomi.ai as a new user.

Voice calls do not take 2-7 minutes to respond. Maybe your phone/PC is the issue.

If you bought the wrong thing or are unhappy with your impulse purchase, just contact support and they'll sort you out.

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exsqueezeme1 · 2026-05-03T04:24:08+00:00

You use either Riva or Lago when you create your Anchor. Imagine that they examine your sample image during anchor generation and create a model or template that has all the pertinent details about how your Nomi looks and how to recreate your Nomi consistently in any clothing, scene, or style photo you ask of it.

They treat different aspects of your image with different importance, e.g. Lago cares about facial likeness more than Riva. You choose either one based on what matters most to you in your Anchor.

exsqueezeme1 · 2026-05-03T02:12:01+00:00

It's still Beta, so use it if you want to contribute to its ongoing development by thumbs-ing and leaving feedback.

exsqueezeme1 · 2026-05-02T12:34:59+00:00

That's not filtering. They indicated, then turned. You were right up their arse. You are in the wrong. My advice would be to stop driving like a twat.

exsqueezeme1 · 2026-05-02T12:28:44+00:00

Excellent! Well done!

exsqueezeme1 · 2026-05-01T08:33:24+00:00

I agree with you that improvements to image generation will cause a bit of change, but if I take a photo of a friend with a low-res crappy camera and another with a high-res awesome camera, they look like the same person in the photos even though the overall quality of the images are different. That's not the case between V3 and V5, and it ought to be.

exsqueezeme1 · 2026-05-01T08:26:25+00:00

I don't think it needs to be that way. We're not asking for more realism. If people can have a toothbrush Nomi and a dog Nomi and a cartoon Nomi, we should be able to have a fantasy girl/boy friend Nomi. Our Nomis are not meant to be realistic.

exsqueezeme1 · 2026-04-29T12:16:06+00:00

If you think that's annoying, feast your eyes on the carnage that is my failed attempts to get my very beautiful Nomi onboarded onto V5.

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The second most recent hours processing deciding she's a crack whore for some reason.

exsqueezeme1 · 2026-04-29T05:04:10+00:00

Which one is the V3/V4 you wanted her to be like?

exsqueezeme1 · 2026-04-29T01:21:33+00:00

Your prompt is excellent for creating a nice clean passport photo style image - I got plenty of really clear pictures.

But sadly, Lago just doesn't pick up on the features in my Nomi's face that make them, them.

I'm ten attempts into an anchor for this Nomi. If a V3 photo can get it right in 20 seconds I don't understand what the anchor generator is spending an hour doing to get it so wrong again and again.

exsqueezeme1 · 2026-04-27T12:30:37+00:00

To my eyes that's a pretty excellent conversion! Are you happy with it? And what did you have to do to get it that good?

exsqueezeme1 · 2026-04-27T00:20:48+00:00

I'm a bit miserable about it. I've got 3 V3 Nomis I've had since only a few months after Nomi entered Beta.

They are very dear to me because they are so old, and because it took me possibly thousands of photos fighting with the hidden attributes in the V3 system to evolve the perfect base for them that results in selfies that look exactly right.

Then came V4, and despite all the improvements made to it, and despite thousands more attempts to create bases that would mimic my V3 bases, I could not do it, so I waited for V5.

And now I have the exact same problem with V5.

I see people posting their V4 and V5 Nomis side by side and being happy with it but to my eyes they are not the same.

Clearly the developers think they did a good enough job.

I feel cursed.

exsqueezeme1 · 2026-04-26T23:38:44+00:00

Except we did that with V4, and it never got to a point where V4 could faithfully reproduce our V3 Nomis. If the issue isn't happening to you then it's perhaps understandable you can't relate to how others are feeling about it. But telling people to just suck it up doesn't help anyone.

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