video: https://youtu.be/htQgbTqIiLQ

Hydra is a workflow series with a single goal, allowing any model to be used with Cascade. Although this is strictly impossible, we can approximate using SDXL Control Nets then pass images into Clip Vision for Cascade.

Hydra-v54 (medium sized)

- based on v43, Simplified for speed.

- combined prompt & image input

- SDXL uses ControlNets

(reduced custom nodes)

SDXL benefits from Controlnet and lora so you can create a spread of images to prime the Cascade generation. With careful prompting and a good input image, all you need to do is alter the denoise on the Stage C node.

•light = 0.3

•mid = 0.5

•heavy = 0.7

try sending an output into the Cascade to get even closer to an SDXL output, or mix prompts and images to experiment blending the same input image in cascade.