1 Install ComfyUI

Download ComfyUI: https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI

1. Extract the folder to the location where you want to install ComfyUI.

2. Install git https://git-scm.com/download/win (standalone version)

3. Download ComfyUI Manager: https://github.com/ltdrdata/ComfyUI-Manager

4. Extract it, put it into your ComfyUI directory and run it.

5. After it’s done you can run ComfyUI by clicking run_nvidia_gpu

Congratulations, you installed ComfyUI! 🥳 To use my workflows you’ll need some extra models and extensions, but it is super easy to install them!

In the next step I’ll show you where to get and put the models. If you’re having issues check if you can just install them via the ComfyUI Manager. Just search for them and when you click “Install” they will be put in the right directory. 

2 Download the Models:

Download these models and put them in the corresponding folders:

1. Checkpoint: https://civitai.com/models/84728/photon

   📁 ComfyUI_windows_portable\ComfyUI\models\checkpoints

!!!You can also use any other SD 1.5 models, but this one works really well for most purposes!!!

2. CONTROLNET MODEL: control_v11f1e_sd15_tile.yaml

   (tile)
   📁 ComfyUI_windows_portable\ComfyUI\models\controlnet

It's easier to install them via the Manager! Go to Manager > Model Manager and search for “tile”. Download the one for SD 1.5. 

2. ANIMATE DIFF: https://huggingface.co/guoyww/animatediff/tree/main
   (v3_sd15_mm.ckpt)

   📁 …ComfyUI_windows_portable\ComfyUI\models\animatediff_models

It's easier to install them via the Manager! Search for “v3” and download animatediff/v3_sd15_mm.ckpt (ComfyUI-AnimateDiff-Evolved)

4. ANIMATE DIFF LORA: https://huggingface.co/wangfuyun/AnimateLCM/tree/main
   (AnimateLCM_sd15_t2v.ckpt) 

   📁 \ComfyUI_windows_portable\ComfyUI\models\loras\lcm\SD1.5

You can also just put it in "loras", but I like to create these additional folders for organizational purposes.

5. IC LIGHT: https://huggingface.co/lllyasviel/ic-light/tree/main

   (IC-Light/fbc)

It's easier to install them via the Manager! Go to Manager > Model Manager and search for “IC light”.

6. Visual Studio https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/

   Download and install. You need this for the Reactor Face Swap node. 

3 Download the Custom Nodes:

Drag and drop my workflow into the ComfyUI Interface. Go to “Install Missing models” and click “install”. After it is done click “restart”. 

4 Bug Fixes: 

1. In some cases, custom nodes are not installed correctly via "install missing custom nodes". In this case, check which models are missing by clicking on "install missing custom nodes", but instead of installing them from there, go back and click on "install custom nodes", find the name there, uninstall it and install it again.
   
   Restart ComfyUI by using “Update All”
   
   
   

2. If Reactor Face Swap is not installing correctly:
   
   

   Find out which Python version you are using by running “python” in ComfyUI_windows_portable\python_embeded 

   
   Download the corresponding insightface version here:  https://github.com/Gourieff/Assets/tree/main/Insightface

   
   

   Right click on that file > “Copy as path”

   
   Go back to your comfyUI main directory and right click > open terminal and run this command: 

   
   .\python_embeded\python.exe -m pip install "paste path here" onnxruntime

   
   in my case it looked like this: 

   
   .\python_embeded\python.exe -m pip install "C:\Users\mickm\Downloads\insightface-0.7.3-cp311-cp311-win_amd64.whl" onnxruntime

   
   Start ComfyUI and it should work!