🛠️ Purpose & Design Philosophy
This workflow is a high-fidelity environment built for Illustrious. It prioritizes stability and professional texture over generation speed. It follows an "all-in-one" philosophy: configure your prompts, hit queue, and let the workflow handle the multi-stage refinement from start to finish.
Not for Speed: This is a heavy-duty refinement tool. If you want 2-second previews, use a basic workflow.
Personal Use: Built for my specific production needs. It is shared as-is for those who want a "set-and-forget" pipeline for Illustrious. Adjust the settings and models to fit your needs. The defaults on v19+ will be what I used for the sample images.
All-in-One Logic: The workflow handles generation, detailing, and upscaling in one continuous pass.
If you're needing something with more features: Try checking out Silly All-in-one, Multiple Characters With Regional Loras which is on civitai.
⚠️ Disclaimer & Compatibility
Install at Your Own Risk: Custom nodes can break your environment. I am not responsible for troubleshooting your specific installation.
ComfyUI: Built and tested on the non-app version. Desktop app users may face additional hurdles.
The "Your Version" Factor: Your node versions and environment are 99.9% likely to differ from mine.
Nodes 2.0: I do not recommend using Nodes 2.0. It creates unpredictable UI behavior; I will not provide support for issues involving this feature.
🤝 Support & Boundaries
I have not and never will monetize my workflow. CivitAI is the only platform I am maintaining this workflow on. If you find a version of my workflow posted and/or monetized anywhere and use it, then whoever posted it is responsible for providing you any support. This is the main reason why I don't monetize this: I don't want to be or feel obligated to provide support.
No DMs: DMs are disabled due to repeat spam. Please check the Discussions tab below; most questions have already been answered.
Modifications: You are free to hack this workflow apart. However, you are responsible for fixing it if it breaks.
Custom Requests: I do not make private workflows. If you need a custom solution, post a Bounty on CivitAI. There are many talented creators ready to help you for a fee.
Description
v9f changes:
Added Detail Daemon back to the workflow.
The settings I have them at are what has worked well for me.
Just like FreeU V2, it is not a one-size-fits-all solution.
This will be toggled off by default.
I have Detail Daemon nodes placed in their own groups and attached to the KSampler and both USDU nodes individually.
No funky switches this time. You can just use the Fast Groups Bypasser node to toggle them off or bypass them normally.
Notes regarding USDU (Ultimate SD Upscale)
Based on the FAQ from the original USDU project, they recommend using a denoise setting of 0.1 to 0.2 for upscaling and up to 0.35 for enhancing the image.
The FAQ also covers what the other settings can do. Just please be aware the original project was made for A1111, so some things may be different.
The ComfyUI version has some instructions, but points to the same FAQ.
For technical questions regarding USDU, I suggest reaching out to one of those two project pages.
The first few example images were generated with both FreeU V2 and Detail Daemon fully enabled across the workflow.