Field Guide

How to Use Superhero Forge AI

Everything you need to forge your first scene.

1 — Story Idea

Type a plain-language description of the scene you want — who is in it, what they are doing, and where it takes place. Example: "A fearless hero defends a neon city rooftop from alien drones while her partner hacks the central tower."

This field is required. The more vivid and specific you are, the more on-target the generated image will be.

2 — Scene Type

Describe the visual era and setting of the scene. The default is set to a 1950s Atomic Age adventure, but you can type anything — for example"1990s gritty street-level showdown" or "retro space opera".

This shapes the overall art direction: colour palette, costume design, background architecture, and mood.

3 — Choose an AI Model

Each model has a different speed and visual style:

  • Stable Diffusion XL Base — richest detail, slowest (~45 s)
  • SDXL Lightning — fast distilled model, good sharpness (~22 s)
  • Flux Schnell — modern architecture, vivid colours (~30 s)

A progress bar and countdown will appear while the model is running. Cloudflare queue time can add a few seconds on top of the estimate.

4 — Freeform Prompt Text

An optional second text field where you can give direct low-level instructions to the image model — lighting, camera angle, colour grading, and so on. Example: "fisheye lens, deep shadows, saturated reds".

This is appended to the automatically built prompt, so use it to fine-tune rather than replace your Story Idea.

5 — Style Notes

Add broad artistic direction like texture preferences, framing mood, or colour contrast hints. Example: "Retro halftone textures, cinematic comic framing, punchy colour contrast".

6 — Legacy Influence Notes

Describe the cultural or creative legacy you want the image to feel inspired by — a decade, a movement, a genre. Example: "Classic comic storytelling spirit and golden age entertainment energy".

The generator will channel that inspiration without copying specific trademarked characters or logos.

7 — Reference URLs

Paste one URL per line. The generator will fetch a summary of each page and use it as creative context. Great for pointing at a comic publisher's about page, a style guide, or a Wikipedia article about an era.

References never copy characters directly — they only inform the atmosphere and composition.

8 — Custom Tagline

The tagline shown in the page header. Leave it as-is or type your own to personalise the forge for your session or project.

9 — Generating & the Gallery

Hit Forge Scene and wait for the countdown. Once complete, the new image appears in Latest Generation and is automatically added to the gallery (stored in Cloudflare R2).

Open the Multi-Page Gallery to browse every image ever generated. Use the search bar to filter by idea, scene type, or model name. Click any image to expand it to full size; click again or press × to close.

10 — Analyze an Image

Each history card has an Analyze Image button. This runs a Cloudflare AI vision model over the stored image and returns a plain-English description of what it sees.

Hit Collapse after reading to restore the card to its original size.

11 — Share a Scene

Click Share on any history card to generate a signed share link. The URL is copied to your clipboard automatically. Anyone with the link can open the gallery and see that specific scene loaded at the top.

12 — Feedback & Rate Limits

Leave a note in the Feedback textarea on any card and clickSave Feedback. Future generations will incorporate your signals — useful for nudging the style over time.

The forge enforces an hourly rate limit per IP address. If you hit it, wait a short while before generating again. The exact retry window is shown in the error message.