What does the Era / Period picker do?

It sets the decade or historical period of an image or a video. The picker adds the fashion, surroundings and photographic look of that time to the prompt of every connected node. It never runs a model and costs no credits.

Does the Era / Period picker cost credits?

No. Pickers only change the prompt. You pay only for the generation node that uses it.

Which eras are in the catalog?

28 eras in 3 groups. 20th-Century Decade runs from 1920s Flapper to Gen Z 2020s. Pre-Modern covers periods such as Ancient Rome, Medieval and Wild West. Speculative covers futures such as Cyberpunk Future and Retrofuturism.

Why do the Era tiles have no pictures on my self-hosted install?

Era tiles show a real render of each era on Nodaro Cloud only. Era has no drawn illustration, so on a self-hosted install each tile shows the era's name and a short description.

Era / Period picker — set the decade or historical period of AI images and video

Pick one of 28 eras, from Ancient Egypt and Victorian to 1980s Neon and Cyberpunk Future, and Nodaro adds its fashion, places and film look to your prompt.

The Era / Period picker sets the decade or historical period of an image or a video. You choose one era from its catalog, such as Ancient Egypt, Victorian, 1970s Disco or Cyberpunk Future. Nodaro adds that era's fashion, surroundings and photographic look to the prompt of every node you connect it to. The picker never calls a model, so it costs no credits.

When to use it

Lock a period look for a narrative or a documentary-style piece.
Keep every shot of a story in the same time period.
Strengthen a retro trend together with the Aesthetic / Microtrend picker.

How to use it

Add the picker

Open the node picker and choose Creative Controls › Scene › Era / Period.

Choose an era

Select the node and choose an era in the settings panel. The tiles are grouped as 20th-Century Decade, Pre-Modern and Speculative. On Nodaro Cloud, each tile shows the same base frame rendered in that era.

Connect it

Drag from the picker's output to the Look input of a Generate Image or Generate Video node. You can also connect it to a Text or Prompt node to include the wording in a longer text.

Run the image or video node

The era's wording is added to the end of the prompt when the connected node runs.

Era / Period and Camera / Film Stock pickers feed the Look input of Generate Image to date the scene and its photograph.

Settings

Setting	What it does
Era / Period	The era to add. The default is 1990s Mall.
Custom text (before)	Your own words, added before the era's wording.
Custom text (after)	Your own words, added after the era's wording.
Prompt hint	Full adds a description of the era's fashion, surroundings and look. Compact adds only its short term. See Creative Controls.

To see the exact words the picker will add, switch the node to the Prompt or Both display mode. The settings panel shows the same text under Will inject into prompt.

What it adds to the prompt

Each era bundles the details that make a time recognizable: clothes, places, lighting and the look of photographs from that time. For 1990s Mall it adds this text in Full mode:

set in the 1990s mall era — denim and crop tops, slip dresses, chokers and platform sneakers under fluorescent food-court lighting, with slight VHS-grain and a warm disposable-camera flash cast

In Compact mode, it adds only 1990s mall culture.

Every era

The catalog has 3 groups: 20th-Century Decade, Pre-Modern and Speculative. Search it or filter it by group. The words under each name are the term the picker adds in Compact mode.

20th-Century Decade · 11 options

1920s Flapper
1930s Art Deco
1940s Wartime
1950s Diner / Pin-up1950s diner pin-up
Atomic Age 50s1950s atomic age
1960s Mod
1970s Disco
1980s Neon
1990s Mall1990s mall culture
2000s Tabloid / Y2K2000s tabloid y2k
Gen Z 2020s2020s gen z

Pre-Modern · 10 options

Medieval
Renaissance
Victorian
Edwardian
Wild West
Ancient Rome
Ancient Egypt
Feudal Japan
Fin-de-siècle (1895-1905)fin-de-siècle 1900s
Pre-War Roaringlate-1910s pre-war

Speculative · 7 options

Near-Future
Far-Future
Dieselpunk
Atompunk
Cyberpunk Future
Post-Apocalyptic
Retrofuturism

Pictures on Cloud and self-hosted installs

On Nodaro Cloud, every era is pictured with a real render: the same base frame put through that era. Era has no drawn illustration, so it offers no switch between a render and an illustration. On a self-hosted install, each tile shows the era's name and a short description instead. The pictures never change the prompt.

Tips

Date the photograph too. Pair the picker with Camera / Film Stock, for example 1980s Neon with VHS.
Dress the cast for the period. Add Styling for specific pieces, and Vehicle for the cars on the street.
Change the season or the texture. Use Custom text (before), for example late summer, or Custom text (after), for example with VHS grain.

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