Sprawling Buildings

SPRAWLING BUILDINGS v1.0 for FLUX

Trigger word: sprawldings

Recommended strength: 1

Flux is a big fan of very regular, rectangular, logical buildings. I'm not. I grew up in pub that was 500 years old, and it was deeply irregular, weirdly shaped, added onto at random points over the centuries, and generally strange. So I trained this LORA on 40 images of large, sprawling buildings -- ancient forts and castles, ruined asylums, factory complexes, horrifying megamalls, tasteless hotel complexes, and so on.

This is Epoch 31 of the training. Any further, and it tended to overtrain, so that too many generations came out with inappropriate ruined windows and weird style overlaps. I'm not 100% pleased with this, but it will definitely add some chaotic sprawl to an image. I might revisit it at some point.

All the images above are just the raw output of Flux + this LORA. Most of them were generated using the following phrase:

sprawldings, a sprawling building stretching on and on into the distance, occupying an impossibly large area, in the style of XX at YY, shot from 20 feet up.

I replaced XX with a type of building -- 'Haunted Library' or 'Ruined Abbey', for example. I replaced YY with a time of day, a type of light, or some other visual style modifier -- 'at golden hour', 'at dusk', etc.

The end part, 'shot from 20 feet up', annoyingly tends to camera points from more like several hundred feet up. I can't find a way to reliably get roof-height images, even though there were plenty in my photo set. I think Flux may be overtrained on drone vantage shots. Without a height, it's more likely to give you a ground-level shot, which cuts off some of the sprawl, but can still look interesting.

It seems to work reasonably from about 0.4 to about 1.7 strength, depending on your needs. Stronger tends to the more chaotic; weaker lessens the tendency to be photographic if you want to try other art styles.