video:  https://youtu.be/htQgbTqIiLQ

Hydra is a workflow series with a single goal, allowing any model to be used with Cascade. Although this is strictly impossible, we can approximate using SDXL Control Nets then pass images into Clip Vision for Cascade.

Hydra-v43 (full sized)
- separate prompt and image inputs for SDXL and Cascade
- passes array of generated images to Cascade
- SDXL used controlnet, Cascade used img2img+vision
(faceswap optional, bypass with ctrl+B)

• SDXL benefits from Controlnet and lora so you can create a spread of images to prime the Cascade generation. With careful prompting and a good input image, all you need to do is alter the denoise on the Stage C node.
  
• light = 0.3
• mid = 0.5
• heavy = 0.7
  try sending an output into the Cascade to get even closer to an SDXL output, or mix prompts and images to experiment blending the same input image in cascade.