arkennemasis fal · Flux 2 LoRA Gallery Satellite View Style · $0.021/MP

Need an overhead image of a city that doesn't exist, a coastline from orbit, or a fake reconnaissance shot for a game map? This is fal's satellite/aerial style endpoint - Flux 2 with a trained look - wrapped as a node. Text-to-image, $0.021 per megapixel, no image input to confuse you.

What it is

flux-2-lora-gallery/satellite-view-style, submitted from the node, results saved to output/fal/fal-ai_flux-2-lora-gallery_satellite-view-style/. Like the rest of the gallery, the endpoint is a fixed LoRA so the "style" is a strength value (lora_scale) rather than something you describe. Also like the rest of the style half of this gallery, it generates rather than transforms: there's no picture socket.

Inputs

prompt describes the terrain and the framing. lora_scale (0–2, default 1) is the intensity of the effect - at 1 you get the satellite look, above 1 it pushes toward documentary, washed-out, high-altitude flatness, below ~0.6 it fades to generic aerial photography.

guidance_scale (0–20, default 2.5) and num_inference_steps (4–50, default 40) are the Flux 2 dials. acceleration is none or regular. image_size defaults to landscape_4_3 with the presets plus custom; overhead imagery reads as wide, so landscape_16_9 is worth trying deliberately rather than leaving the default. num_images (1–4) gets you a batch in one paid call, seed at -1 randomises, output_format defaults to png, and the safety checker returns flagged output as black.

max_cost_usd (default $20, 0 = no cap) is checked before anything is uploaded - genuinely useful on an endpoint you're likely to explore with. reuse_identical_run gives you a free re-run of identical inputs, extra_json passes raw fields to fal, and max_concurrent keeps paid calls from running simultaneously across the graph.

Outputs

images (a normal IMAGE batch), image_paths, seed, prompt and info. info is the JSON receipt - request id, estimate, saved files, fal's full response.

Install

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/Hishamahmer/comfyui-arkennemasis

Restart, then:

FAL_KEY=your-key-from-fal.ai/dashboard/keys

into the .env beside run_nvidia_gpu.bat. Standard library only - no pip step for the fal nodes.

Where people get burned

The genre has a tell, and Flux 2's encoder will happily reproduce it: satellite imagery is mostly texture at a scale, and if you prompt for "a city from space" the model gives you a stylised map rather than something that reads as a photograph from altitude. Say what the ground actually is - farmland with field boundaries, a river delta, warehouse roofs, a motorway at night - and the illusion holds much better.

Second, text and lettering: overhead shots invite labels, road markings and signage, and Flux 2's text is not reliable, so "no text, no labels" in the prompt saves you a pass. Third, cost - this is a browse-and-pick kind of node, and four images at 2MP each is roughly $0.17, which is fine once and annoying forty times. Keep the size modest while you're hunting for the shot and raise it for the keeper. One more: it's a paid third-party call, so nothing sensitive belongs in the prompt.