How to share drawing models between ComfyUI and other Stable diffusion AI drawing WebUI?

How to configure the shared drawing model with A1111 for the ComfyUI Desktop version

In the ComfyUI Desktop desktop version, extra_model_paths.yaml You can find extra-model-paths in the Help->Open folder->Open extra_model_paths.yaml menu after starting the ComfyUI Desktop desktop version

Select the corresponding menu item and open it with Notepad program

 Or find the extra_model_paths.yaml file in the C:UsersAdministratorAppDataRoamingComfyUI directory

The corresponding original file content is as follows:

 # ComfyUI extra_model_paths.yaml for win32
comfyui_desktop:
  is_default: "true"
  checkpoints: modelscheckpoints
  classes: modelsclassifiers
  clip: modelsclip
  clip_vision: modelsclip_vision
  configs: modelsconfigs
  controlnet: modelscontrolnet
  diffusers: modelsdiffusers
  diffusion_models: modelsdiffusion_models
  embeddings: modelsembeddings
  gligen: modelsgligen
  hypernetworks: modelshypernetworks
  loras: modelsloras
  photomaker: modelsphotomaker
  style_models: modelsstyle_models
  unet: modelsunet
  upscale_models: modelsupscale_models
  vae: modelsvae
  vae_approx: modelsvae_approx
  animatediff_models: modelsanimatediff_models
  animatediff_motion_lora: modelsanimatediff_motion_lora
  animatediff_video_formats: modelsanimatediff_video_formats
  ipadapter: modelsipadapter
  liveportrait: modelsliveportrait
  insightface: modelsinsightface
  layerstyle: modelslayerstyle
  LLM: modelsLLM
  Joy_caption: modelsJoy_caption
  sams: modelssams
  blip: modelsblip
  CogVideo: modelsCogVideo
  xlabs: modelsxlabs
  instantid: modelsinstantid
  custom_nodes: custom_nodes/
  download_model_base: models
  base_path: D:ComfyUI

How to modify the configuration

The following is the configuration instructions for the yaml file:

If below is the custom model configuration file example I provided

 comfyui_desktop:
  is_default: "true"
  checkpoints: modelscheckpoints
  classes: modelsclassifiers
  clip: modelsclip
  clip_vision: modelsclip_vision
  configs: modelsconfigs
  controlnet: modelscontrolnet
  diffusers: modelsdiffusers
  diffusion_models: modelsdiffusion_models
  embeddings: modelsembeddings
  gligen: modelsgligen
  hypernetworks: modelshypernetworks
  loras: modelsloras
  photomaker: modelsphotomaker
  style_models: modelsstyle_models
  unet: modelsunet
  upscale_models: modelsupscale_models
  vae: modelsvae
  vae_approx: modelsvae_approx
  animatediff_models: modelsanimatediff_models
  animatediff_motion_lora: modelsanimatediff_motion_lora
  animatediff_video_formats: modelsanimatediff_video_formats
  ipadapter: modelsipadapter
  liveportrait: modelsliveportrait
  insightface: modelsinsightface
  layerstyle: modelslayerstyle
  LLM: modelsLLM
  Joy_caption: modelsJoy_caption
  sams: modelssams
  blip: modelsblip
  CogVideo: modelsCogVideo
  xlabs: modelsxlabs
  instantid: modelsinstantid
  custom_nodes: custom_nodes/
  download_model_base: models
  base_path: D:ComfyUI

 custom_models:
  base_path: E:
  checkpoints: modelscheckpoints
  classes: modelsclassifiers
  clip: modelsclip
  # ...Other model paths ...
a1111:
  base_path: D:stable-diffusion-webui
  checkpoints: models/Stable-diffusion
  # ...Other model paths ...

base_path has added new customization in each configuration.

You can customize the name of each configuration node, such as custom_models or a1111, etc., but it cannot be repeated, otherwise an error will be reported.

is_default This is used to specify whether this configuration file is the default configuration file. There can only be one. If set to true, then this configuration file will become the default configuration file, otherwise it will become a non-default configuration file.

The key name needs to be consistent with the original configuration file, and the folder is your actual folder

Please note that the custom_nodes folder is used to store the path of the custom plug-in. This is not available in the original Portable version, but in the desktop version. It is best to keep the default one.

How to configure the shared drawing model with A1111 in the ComfyUI Portable version

The file extra_model_paths.yaml.example can be found in the installation directory corresponding to ComfyUI Portable, with the path as follows

ComfyUI_windows_portable

├──ComfyUI

│ ├── extra_model_paths.yaml.example // This file is a configuration file

│ └── ...Other files are omitted

└── ...Other files are omitted

 After finding the above file, modify the file name extra_model_paths.yaml.example to extra_model_paths.yaml, and then edit it with Notepad software.

The corresponding original file content is as follows:

 #Rename this to extra_model_paths.yaml and ComfyUI will load it


  #config for a1111 ui
#all you have to do is change the base_path to where yours is installed
a111:
    base_path: path/to/stable-diffusion-webui/

     checkpoints: models/Stable-diffusion
    configs: models/Stable-diffusion
    vae: models/VAE
    loras: |
         models/Lora
         models/LyCORIS
    upscale_models: |
                  models/ESRGAN
                  models/RealESRGAN
                  models/SwinIR
    embeddings: embeddings
    hypernetworks: models/hypernetworks
    controlnet: models/ControlNet

 #config for comfyui
#your base path should be either an existing comfy install or a central folder where you store all of your models, loras, etc.

 #comfyui:
# base_path: path/to/comfyui/
# checkpoints: models/checkpoints/
# clip: models/clip/
# clip_vision: models/clip_vision/
# configs: models/configs/
# controlnet: models/controlnet/
# embeddings: models/embeddings/
#loras: models/loras/
# upscale_models: models/upscale_models/
# vae: models/vae/

 #other_ui:
# base_path: path/to/ui
# checkpoints: models/checkpoints
# gligen: models/gligen
# custom_nodes: path/custom_nodes

You can see that in the settings part of a111: there is base_path: used to specify the path where the WebUI root directory is located. You can modify this to the path where your WebUI or custom model folder is located. Remember to have a space after:. After the modification is completed, save the corresponding file and restart ComfyUI.

 You need to make sure that the file path under the base_path: path is correct

 Note that the path format may be different in different systems such as Mac or Linux systems.

 If you assume that the WebUI installation path is D:stable-diffusion-webui, then the corresponding path vae under the configuration file settings above vae The model file path will eventually be D:stable-diffusion-webuimodelsVAE, please check the corresponding folders other checkpoints and loras, and also check the corresponding configuration.

If you find that your checkpoints or VAE are not loading smoothly after restarting, please check whether your configuration is correct.

For other UIs, you can also refer to the configuration file above to modify it, such as other_ui:, etc. You can cancel the # comment before the code to add the settings of the corresponding UI, and then modify the paths of base_path: and the corresponding drawing models.