Best Practices for Customizing Node Model Paths

[xingren23]

Here's a suggestion for best practices regarding model paths for your custom nodes:

1. Support configuration of model paths in an extra_model_path.yaml file.
2. Store models downloaded by users in the root directory /comfyui/models/xxxxx.
3. Store models downloaded during runtime in either the root directory /comfyui/models/xxx or within the node itself at /comfyui/custom_nodes/xxxx/models/xxxx.

This approach provides clear guidelines for developers and ensures consistency in managing model paths

Feel free to discuss and refine this further!

[alexisrolland]

Is there any documentation available somewhere for point "1. Support configuration of model paths in an extra_model_path.yaml file."?

[christian-byrne]

Do you mean docs for the extra models paths file itself? If so, there is some documentation in comfyui model sharing and custom model directory configuration section of docs.comfy.

If there's anything that those docs leave out, I can perhaps try to help answer and also update the docs accordingly.