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    Eldritch Cartography for Flux - Annotated v1.0
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    Flux is decent at maps - but it has a strong preference for 3d or isometric views. This model will help steer your prompt consistently toward a flat traditional cartography style.

    It's reasonably flexible in terms of producing more monochromatic or more colorful maps. It can render decent star maps or otherworldly planetary maps. Trained on traditional, real-world, hand-drawn maps, it brings a believable analog aesthetic.

    Now with a new deAnnotated version

    Although it will still render text when asked for, and sometimes when you don't, this version is capable of maps with no place names and text. My thanks (and curses, somewhat - it was tedious editing a handful of old maps to blank out all the writing!) to @clydeleegrahamAI for suggesting such. At 1.0 strength, it's very strong and inflexible. All maps end up looking monochrome and a bit simplistic and boring. But at 0.6 to 0.7 you can often get decent maps deAnnotated.

    It is hit-and-miss, how much text you get. Obviously Flux understands what maps are already and wants to render some text. So you will likely need to output a number of prompt variations to get what you're looking for.

    I still largely prefer the original for its greater versatility, but there's definitely utility in being able to make a map with no (or at least, a lot less) text on it, so I'm happy to have given it a shot and to share it here.

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    Comments (10)

    WizardWhitebeardOct 7, 2024· 2 reactions
    CivitAI

    Just: Wow!
    Briefly considered training something like this, but thought for sure it would be a fool's errand. Looks fantastic. Great work!

    eldritchadam
    Author
    Oct 7, 2024· 1 reaction

    Thanks, Wiz - it definitely took a few tries! I'm sure there's plenty of room for more than one maps LoRA. I recommend taking a look at https://www.raremaps.com/

    WizardWhitebeardOct 7, 2024· 1 reaction

    @eldritchadam Seem to work great with Schnell as well (for us GPU-challenged people)

    clydeleegrahamAIJan 30, 2025· 2 reactions
    CivitAI

    Any tips for minimizing or totally omitting the text giberish? It makes nice, but basically unusuable output.

    eldritchadam
    Author
    Jan 30, 2025· 1 reaction

    Sorry, no. I'd have to train an altogether different LoRA. Which maybe I will undertake ... I think I could manage it ...

    For now, these more graphic models can be quite good:

    https://civitai.com/models/840900/rpg-maps-dora

    https://civitai.com/models/231463

    https://civitai.com/models/1114428/cityscapes-maps-and-sketches

    eldritchadam
    Author
    Feb 17, 2025· 1 reaction

    I uploaded a first go at a LoRA that can generate (even if not 100% of the time) maps without names and annotations. But I think I can do a little better, so may upload another update soon.

    eldritchadam
    Author
    Feb 17, 2025· 1 reaction

    @himothy12516 a thumbs down on a conversation reply, that I'm trying to deliver on a request? What am I missing? You've got to explain what elicits a negative reaction here ...

    himothy12516Feb 18, 2025· 2 reactions

    @eldritchadam i think i misclicked.. lol

    eldritchadam
    Author
    Feb 18, 2025· 1 reaction

    @himothy12516 oh pheww! So confusing ...

    clydeleegrahamAIFeb 19, 2025

    @eldritchadam  Cool, and TY

    LORA
    Flux.1 D

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    Platform
    CivitAI
    Platform Status
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    Created
    10/7/2024
    Updated
    5/12/2026
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    Trigger Words:
    map
    traditional cartography

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