Locations

A location is a reusable place, such as a street or a room, that looks the same in every image and video of a project. You create it once in Location Studio from an approved main image, then add variants such as night, rain or an aerial view. Connect the Location Asset node wherever the scene happens, and every shot starts from the same place.

What a location holds

Create a location

Approving costs no credits and writes the Canonical description. The description appears under the main image. For an unfamiliar or imaginary place, generate 2 or 4 candidates, because the first one is rarely the right one.

Reference photos

Each reference photo has a kind that tells the model what the photo is for.

Choose the kind, paste the photo's URL and click Add. A location holds up to 20 photos, and you can add several of the same kind. Before the first photo, tick the box that confirms you have the rights to the photos and that any people in them consented. The page then shows the date of your consent.

Reference photos travel with the location. Every node that uses the location receives them as extra references.

Variants: time, weather, seasons, angles and light

Each variant page shows the same place in one kind of change.

• Click a preset to generate that variant. A preset you already made shows as done.
• Generate All generates every preset that is still missing on the page.
• Type in Custom prompt (free-form) and click Generate for any other variant, for example "flooded street after a storm".
• Search the variants by name, select several, and delete them at once.

Each variant costs one image on the location's image model. Name variants carefully: the name is what you mention, as in @old-library:1:weather/rain.

Style Lock

Style Lock is the main consistency switch of a location. It is on for every new location.

Turn Style Lock on or off in the studio header or in the node's settings panel. The node shows "Style locked" next to the style when it is on.

Motion clips

The Motion page turns the approved main image into short ambient clips: drifting fog, slow camera moves, parallax and fly-overs. Use a clip as an establishing shot, or as B-roll between scenes.

• Approve a main image first. Until then, Generate is disabled.
• Presets: slow dolly-in, slow pan-left, slow pan-right, push up, drone fly-over, gentle drift, parallax, static atmospheric.
• Custom prompt: describe what moves and how, for example "fog rolls in from the left while light beams shift slowly".
• Models: Kling 2.6 (the default), Kling 2.5 Turbo Pro, Kling 3.0, Wan 2.6 I2V, Wan 2.7 I2V and Seedance 2.
• Frame: clips are 16:9, like a cinematic establishing shot.
• Cost: a clip costs the same as an image-to-video run on the chosen model.

Use a location in your scenes

Connect the Location Asset node's Location output to the Assets input of a Generate Image or Generate Video node. The node receives the main image, the reference photos and the canonical description.

To place the location exactly where you want it in the sentence, mention it in the prompt. The mention name comes from the location's name: "Old Library" becomes @old-library:1.

A variant is written as page and name, for example weather/rain, seasons/winter, angles/aerial or lighting/neon. Spaces in a name become dashes, as in weather/light-rain. The easiest way is to type @ and choose the variant from the menu, which lists every variant of every connected location.

The roles for a location are location (the default), background, atmosphere, as-is, empty background, layout, lighting and style. empty background takes the background without the objects in front of it. as-is uses the picture without a role phrase. Read Reference roles for the full grammar.

The Image output of the node is the main image as a plain picture. Use it where you want only the picture, without the description or the variants.

In the settings panel of an image or video node, the Injected references list shows every picture the node will send. Remove the location's pictures from one node there, without disconnecting it.

Use a location you already have

Click Choose existing on the node, or Choose from Library / Gallery in the settings panel.

• My Library lists your own locations.
• Public Gallery lists locations shared by the community. Choosing one copies it into your library first. The tab appears on multi-user installs, such as Nodaro Cloud.

Choosing or replacing a location brings its main image, every variant and every motion clip, so connected nodes use it at once.

Delete and restore a location

In the asset picker's My Library tab, point at a location and click Delete from library. The location is archived, and nodes that use it keep working.

The Location Library page, at app.nodaro.ai/library/locations, lists your locations in two tabs: Active and Archived. An archived location has Restore and a permanent delete. To delete permanently, type the location's exact name to confirm. This removes the location and its pictures for good.

If a restored location's name is already taken, "(restored)" is added to it.

Tips

• Approve before you vary. Variants, motion clips and the description all come from the main image.
• Keep Style Lock on inside one film. Turn it off only when you want a different take on the place.
• Give imaginary places a mood board. Three to six reference photos give the model the context it needs for a faithful first main image.
• Use one style for every location in a project. Mixed styles break the look of a story.
• Make a motion clip for every location you revisit. A 5-second drift or dolly works as an opening shot and as B-roll.

From code and agents

The REST API, the SDK and the CLI create locations, generate and approve main images, add variants and motion clips, and archive and restore locations. They also set the category and the style, and rewrite the canonical description from the current main image. See Locations.

On Nodaro Cloud, the API can also build a 360-degree look-around of a location without visible seams, one ring view at a time.

The MCP tools include create_location, update_location, generate_location, approve_main_image, recaption_location, generate_location_motion, list_locations and get_location. They cannot delete or restore a location. See the MCP tools.