⚡ Illustrious Workflow as of version 18
🛠️ Purpose & Design Philosophy
This workflow is a high-fidelity environment built for Illustrious XL. 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 SDXL 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.
All-in-One Logic: The workflow handles generation, detailing, and upscaling in one continuous pass.
🚀 Key Features & 2026 Logic
Global Model Patching (RescaleCFG): Includes a pre-configured RescaleCFG patch (Multiplier: 0.7) applied globally. This acts as "HDR Insurance," preventing the "deep-fried" or over-saturated look common in high-CFG Illustrious runs.
Detail Daemon Sampler: Integrated to enhance structural depth. In this version, it is tuned to start at 0.4 to preserve the core Illustrious character proportions while sharpening hair and eye details.
Hybrid Upscale Strategy: * Group Bypass Switch: Easily toggle between a Pixel-only (Lanczos) path for flat anime styles and an Upscale-Model path for 2.5D/highly detailed renders.
Ultimate SD Upscale: Re-draws the upscaled canvas at a 0.35 denoise to lock in fine textures.
Power LoRA Loader: Manage multiple Illustrious-specific LoRAs without messy wiring.
Triple Detailer Groups: 3-stage targeted refinement for faces, hands, and clothing using standard detection models.
CivitAI Meta-Sync: Images are saved with full metadata (Model, LoRAs, Sampler info) for automatic site parsing.
⚠️ Disclaimer & Compatibility
Install at Your Own Risk: Custom nodes can break your environment. I am not responsible for troubleshooting your specific installation.
ComfyUI Portable: Built and tested on the Portable 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
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
v9 tested on Better Days with Touching Grass, and this PornMaster lora.
This workflow should work with any SDXL, Pony, Illustrious, and NOOB (NAI) models.
Layout changes primarily on the left side of the workflow.
Most of these changes stemmed from someone mentioning lora clip weights and concat conditioning. I tried both. Didn't care for the clip weights thing and concat had some interesting results, but not consistent enough for me to want to use it in the workflow.
I had spent a good amount of time trying out some lora loader alternatives to ImpactWildcardEncode. Unfortunately, this caused Image Saver to no longer detect any loras being used, even when utilizing Widget to String to send the model names to Image Saver.
This led to trying alternatives to Image Saver, but as expected, they lacked in areas where Image Saver performs better for my needs.
Dropped FreeU_V2. While it can be really useful, it's not consistently good. I think there's enough extra settings in my workflow that I don't need this too.
Added all the Sampler Selectors from ComfyUI-ppm. At least one of them I haven't seen mentioned on their project page, but I encourage you to try them out if you like trying new samplers.
There is now a toggle for 4 sampler groups.
Standard Samplers
CFG++ Sampler Select (from ppm)
Dyn Samplers (from ppm)
PPM Samplers (from ppm)
Ideally, just have one toggled on. If you have multiple groups toggled on, it's going to use the sampler group that is first in numerical order.
Bookmarks 1 through 5 will take you to what I consider the important parts of the workflow.
Tweaked the tile size settings to be opposite of what the initial image resolution is. This has yielded good results for me and makes it so I no longer need to use Half Tile mode to be satisfied with the results.
Workflow file has been saved with the settings I used with Euler + Karras to generate one of the sample images.