Single cmd arg to reference models in existing A1111 checkout

[huchenlei]

After #203, you can use --forge-ref-a1111-home cmd arg to reference models in existing A1111 checkout.

Models include:

• Checkpoint
• VAE
• LoRA
• Embedding
• Hypernetwork
• ControlNet
• ControlNet preprocessor

Example webui-user.bat setup

@echo off

set PYTHON=
set GIT=
set VENV_DIR=D:/stable-diffusion-webui/venv
set COMMANDLINE_ARGS=--forge-ref-a1111-home D:/stable-diffusion-webui

call webui.bat

[xhoxye]

I was wrong, the copied path did not modify the slash symbol

[LiJT]

Please add ESRGAN and RealESRGAN or another upscaler model would be great! For now it doesnt read any of them

[dermesut]

this seems to work for me, except for the controlnet models.
when setting the "home", the path in which it looks is "{home}\models\ControlNet"
but the controlnet models of that "home"-installation are in "{home}\extensions\sd-webui-controlnet\models".
that's not a custom path that i put there myself. it's been there by default by that "home"-installation.
any chance to take that into account?

edit:
i believe, this is where that happens (launch_utils.py, line 521):
ModelRef(arg_name="--controlnet-dir", relative_path="models/ControlNet"),
ModelRef(arg_name="--controlnet-preprocessor-models-dir", relative_path="extensions/sd-webui-controlnet/annotator/downloads"),

i don't understand, why the "correct" path (in terms of the extensions context) is there for the preprocessors, but not for the models.

btw: not joining parts of paths with os.path.join(a, b) but rather with things like target_path = a1111_home / ref.relative_path, gives me a hard time talking to your code programmatically.

but i'm not complaining. this forge-thingy is awesome. super-fast, let's me render huuuge images etc.
thank you very much for it!

[huchenlei]

If your ControlNet models location is not in {home}\models\ControlNet, you can override the default by specifying --controlnet-dir arg.

The path you use was deprecated and we never remove support for it in sd-webui-controlnet. See https://github.com/Mikubill/sd-webui-controlnet/blob/9a5f28838a3670018fe00af48e4a3ee91582d279/scripts/global_state.py#L17-L18. That model path under extensions folder is marked with suffix _old.

[dermesut]

thank you.
not sure, if this is the place to ask, but what about lycoris?
i remember something along the lines of not needed anymore, treated like loras etc.. but i have some "old" one that are still working the way they used to before that (using "lyco:lyconame:value", that is) in the "classical" a1111.
with forge, they seem to have no effect at all.

[Renfield286]

What if your lora and checkpoints are on a different drive to the installation of A1111, is there a way to point forge at specific folders?