Timeofday Styler (Advanced)

The Advanced version of TimeofdayStyler: same time-of-day presets - Afternoon, BlueHour, Evening, GoldenHour, Midday, Morning, Night, Sunrise, Sunset, Twilight - but built for SDXL's dual text encoders. If your workflow uses a CLIPTextEncodeSDXL node with separate text_g and text_l boxes, this is the one that fits without an adapter.

The reason for the split: SDXL runs OpenCLIP-ViT/bigG and CLIP-ViT/L in parallel, and that second encoder carries a good part of SDXL's control over light and atmosphere. The Advanced node lets you address each encoder directly instead of copying the same string into both.

What you set

• text_positive_g / text_positive_l - your prompt for the G and L encoders; same text in both is the usual case.
• text_negative - your negative prompt.
• timeofday - the preset; No option disables it.
• negative_prompt_to - Both, G only, or L only, routing the preset's built-in negative. Default Both.
• log_prompt - prints the assembled prompt to the console so you can see what landed in each encoder.

Outputs: text_positive_g, text_positive_l, a merged text_positive, and the three negatives (text_negative_g, text_negative_l, text_negative). Wire _g and _l into CLIPTextEncodeSDXL. Not on an SDXL dual-encode graph? Take the merged pair and feed a normal CLIP Text Encode.

Installing it

ComfyUI Manager, search ComfyUI_MileHighStyler. It's an older, niche pack Manager doesn't always index, so if it's missing, clone it:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/TripleHeadedMonkey/ComfyUI_MileHighStyler

Restart ComfyUI. No models, no dependencies - pure JSON templates, instant install, no VRAM cost.

Common snags

Two recurring ones. The six outputs: don't wire all of them, pick a lane - SDXL dual-encode uses _g and _l, everything else uses the merged pair. And the overlap with lighting: GoldenHour here and a preset from LightingStylerAdvanced both push on the light, so stacking them can double up or conflict. Check log_prompt and keep it to one source of light direction.

A useful pairing on SDXL: set timeofday to GoldenHour here and route the shot through PerfectionStyler's camera field, and you get warm low sun plus a named lens - the two cues the community rates highest for pulling SDXL out of its default plastic look. Just don't also stack a lighting preset that fights the sun direction.

The honest limitation, same as the rest of the pack: the two-encoder split is an SDXL thing, so this node belongs on Illustrious, Pony, Juggernaut and other SDXL finetunes. On a 2026 LLM-encoded model (Flux 2, Z-Image, Anima) there's no G/L to address, the weighting is discarded, and the negative is inert at CFG 1 - so it's the right node on the older stack and a no-op on the newer one.