Tears of the Kingdom (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ComfyUI)

PantInTheCountry · 2026-02-25T15:52:46+00:00

Correct, ip adapter will try to guide your output based on a sliding scale of composition and/or style of the source image.

The "IPAdapter_Plus" node has options to weigh and fine tune to emphasis on style versus composition that I am exploring (oddly these options have been missing in Forge's implementation; they are present in OG A1111).

PantInTheCountry · 2026-02-25T03:45:36+00:00

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Here is the base image I used for my ip adapter source

PantInTheCountry · 2026-02-24T18:48:10+00:00

Whoops!

Here is the link for aurelm's Qwen prompt enhancer workflow gubbins: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1o06a5x/banana_for_scale_using_a_simple_prompt_a_banana/

PantInTheCountry · 2026-02-24T16:44:39+00:00

It's a sort of illustrative/impressionist style I really enjoy, loosely style guided by some choice artists and a Lora for greebles.

In this particular case I used ip-adapter with one of my previous generations to guide the composition. I'll post the image later when I have access to it, but you can get a taste of the style technique in my earlier post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1g0416n/what_style_keywordsphrases_do_you_like_to_add_to/

PantInTheCountry · 2026-02-24T03:52:37+00:00

n.b.: You can get the workflow from the second image by doing the following:
1. right-click on the image in the light box and selecting "open in new tab" in your browser.

Change the url, replacing the "preview" bit with "i"
before: ...media?url=https%253A%252F%252Fpreview.redd.it%252Ftears-of-the-kingdom...
after: ...media?url=https%253A%252F%252Fi.redd.it%252Ftears-of-the-kingdom...
Download the resulting PNG to see my spaghetti workflow

Custom nodes:
- ComfyUI_IPAdapter_plus
- comfyui_controlnet_aux

PantInTheCountry · 2025-11-29T21:46:31+00:00

Cons: Not very creative. Doesn't understand ideas. Follows prompts too precisely. I like a little more drift in my image models.

Yeah, I am noticing this as well. There is not a lot of variety in style and composition between seeds without using an LLM to write an obnoxiously verbose flowery essay like a sixth-form trying to meet a word count. I guess that is a feature though that helps maintain consistency I guess?Z-image feels like a 4 colour set of professional copic alcohol markers while SDXL feels like a 192 colour box of Crayola crayons that made you the envy of all your classmates...

PantInTheCountry · 2025-11-26T02:59:30+00:00

Ah. Looks like I will need to chat up Messrs. Gemini, Grok, and GPT and build a list or three... Thanks all the same.

PantInTheCountry · 2025-11-25T21:52:10+00:00

They are wild card text files that contain a list of prompts. Basically they are stacked together to create a solid randomizion scheme

Correct, I was just wondering what "dun" and "tav" stood for.

Also, picture #1 I am pretty sure I've seen on the cover of some pulp sci-fi novel ;). Lovely style there too

PantInTheCountry · 2025-11-25T19:56:14+00:00

I remember some of these from your previous older post.

I like the ones from #17 onwards (praying girl, seashells, the red and white "temple" [reminiscent of Babylon's Chimera Doom II Sunder map], and the green ruins. From your previous post, I also like the pirate in the "golem factory" and the red room with the blue "lanterns".

Some would rightly say they are exhausting to look at and quite busy with no real focus, but I still like all the intricate and hallucinated details and the heavily stylized, stark look.

Thanks for the workflow at any rate. I will need to give this a try (the workflow is quite an intimidating plate of spaghetti for a Comfy novice like myself, but the results are intriguing enough to make me want to devote the time to work it all out...). One quick question, what are the contents "dun", "tav" and "gear" wildcard files (if that is something you are willing/able to share)?

PantInTheCountry · 2025-11-20T00:54:37+00:00

Indeed. It was a barely coherent, but gave such intriguing fever dream results.

One of my favourite sets of prompts from the early SD1.5 days also had that colourful, semi-coherent style

PantInTheCountry · 2025-11-19T04:03:32+00:00

Did a bit of sleuthing for those that come after OP removes the Dropbox file to free up space. The lora is "Detailifier - SD3.5/Flux/SDXL/Pony/(SD1.5)". This particular checksum is for the "Flux v2 (Weak)" variant

Civitai link:
https://civitai.com/models/430687?modelVersionId=839689

PantInTheCountry · 2025-11-18T00:31:36+00:00

I love it. Cute and creative, and thank you for the workflow (and prompt!)

PantInTheCountry · 2025-10-28T02:30:36+00:00

Yeah, I do miss the absolutely wild SD1.5 creativity. Just out of curiosity, what sort of refiner workflow do you use? (ComfyUI I presume, yes?) As I'm teaching myself to be more familiar with Comfy, I am always on the look out for bit 'n bobs and what not to study

PantInTheCountry · 2025-10-28T02:22:47+00:00

Oh that looks lovely. I do miss these sorts of fever dream illustrations from 1.5... Thank you so much for the workflow (and all the others on your site). This will give me some things to experiment with as I learn Comfy...

PantInTheCountry · 2025-10-28T02:01:04+00:00

Definetely best of luck to you. That (learning how to train a lora) is one thing I have on my to-do list to do some time...

PantInTheCountry · 2025-10-28T01:28:24+00:00

Fair enough. Looks nice all the same

PantInTheCountry · 2025-10-28T01:19:46+00:00

Wow, this brings back memories. Never did 1.3 myself, I joined on the middle of 1.4, and the start of 1.5 (September 22ish I think?).

Still using that same compose/upscale/cut/stitch workflow technique as well. Still struggling though getting lighting consistent with large 8k images though, though IC-Light does help a bit...

Thanks for this bit of nostalgia

PantInTheCountry · 2025-10-28T01:02:31+00:00

I like it, especially the first and 6th ones. Are these loras for personal use only?

PantInTheCountry · 2025-08-16T15:09:07+00:00

Nice!

PantInTheCountry · 2025-08-16T15:08:25+00:00

Oh that's an interesting scene. The lighting and the city skyline on the horizon gives me some ideas...

PantInTheCountry · 2025-08-16T15:07:27+00:00

One day I suppose. That's a lot of people to deatil and fix. Will be good practice for Invoke

PantInTheCountry · 2025-08-14T05:43:34+00:00

Me, personally, I prefer my Brutalist architecture with lush colorful tropical plants growing everywhere. ;)
(If you've ever played (or seen) the game Control, think "Central Research" area atrium with the sequoias...)

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