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QuasarUI

A powerful and modular stable diffusion GUI and backend.

QuasarUI Screenshot

This ui will let you design and execute advanced stable diffusion pipelines using a graph/nodes/flowchart based interface. For some workflow examples and see what QuasarUI can do you can check out:

Features

  • Nodes/graph/flowchart interface to experiment and create complex Stable Diffusion workflows without needing to code anything.
  • Fully supports SD1.x, SD2.x and SDXL
  • Asynchronous Queue system
  • Many optimizations: Only re-executes the parts of the workflow that changes between executions.
  • Command line option: --lowvram to make it work on GPUs with less than 3GB vram (enabled automatically on GPUs with low vram)
  • Works even if you don't have a GPU with: --cpu (slow)
  • Can load ckpt, safetensors and diffusers models/checkpoints. Standalone VAEs and CLIP models.
  • Embeddings/Textual inversion
  • Loras (regular, locon and loha)
  • Hypernetworks
  • Loading full workflows (with seeds) from generated PNG files.
  • Saving/Loading workflows as Json files.
  • Nodes interface can be used to create complex workflows like one for Hires fix or much more advanced ones.
  • Area Composition
  • Inpainting with both regular and inpainting models.
  • ControlNet and T2I-Adapter
  • Upscale Models (ESRGAN, ESRGAN variants, SwinIR, Swin2SR, etc...)
  • unCLIP Models
  • GLIGEN
  • Model Merging
  • Latent previews with TAESD
  • Starts up very fast.
  • Works fully offline: will never download anything.
  • Config file to set the search paths for models.

Shortcuts

Keybind Explanation
Ctrl + Enter Queue up current graph for generation
Ctrl + Shift + Enter Queue up current graph as first for generation
Ctrl + S Save workflow
Ctrl + O Load workflow
Ctrl + A Select all nodes
Ctrl + M Mute/unmute selected nodes
Ctrl + B Bypass selected nodes (acts like the node was removed from the graph and the wires reconnected through)
Delete/Backspace Delete selected nodes
Ctrl + Delete/Backspace Delete the current graph
Space Move the canvas around when held and moving the cursor
Ctrl/Shift + Click Add clicked node to selection
Ctrl + C/Ctrl + V Copy and paste selected nodes (without maintaining connections to outputs of unselected nodes)
Ctrl + C/Ctrl + Shift + V Copy and paste selected nodes (maintaining connections from outputs of unselected nodes to inputs of pasted nodes)
Shift + Drag Move multiple selected nodes at the same time
Ctrl + D Load default graph
Q Toggle visibility of the queue
H Toggle visibility of history
R Refresh graph
Double-Click LMB Open node quick search palette

Ctrl can also be replaced with Cmd instead for macOS users

Running

python main.py

Notes

Only parts of the graph that have an output with all the correct inputs will be executed.

Only parts of the graph that change from each execution to the next will be executed, if you submit the same graph twice only the first will be executed. If you change the last part of the graph only the part you changed and the part that depends on it will be executed.

Dragging a generated png on the webpage or loading one will give you the full workflow including seeds that were used to create it.

You can use () to change emphasis of a word or phrase like: (good code:1.2) or (bad code:0.8). The default emphasis for () is 1.1. To use () characters in your actual prompt escape them like \( or \).

You can use {day|night}, for wildcard/dynamic prompts. With this syntax "{wild|card|test}" will be randomly replaced by either "wild", "card" or "test" by the frontend every time you queue the prompt. To use {} characters in your actual prompt escape them like: \{ or \}.

Dynamic prompts also support C-style comments, like // comment or /* comment */.

To use a textual inversion concepts/embeddings in a text prompt put them in the models/embeddings directory and use them in the CLIPTextEncode node like this (you can omit the .pt extension):

embedding:embedding_filename.pt

How to increase generation speed?

Make sure you use the regular loaders/Load Checkpoint node to load checkpoints. It will auto pick the right settings depending on your GPU.

You can set this command line setting to disable the upcasting to fp32 in some cross attention operations which will increase your speed. Note that this will very likely give you black images on SD2.x models. If you use xformers this option does not do anything.

--dont-upcast-attention

How to show high-quality previews?

Use --preview-method auto to enable previews.

The default installation includes a fast latent preview method that's low-resolution. To enable higher-quality previews with TAESD, download the taesd_decoder.pth (for SD1.x and SD2.x) and taesdxl_decoder.pth (for SDXL) models and place them in the models/vae_approx folder. Once they're installed, restart QuasarUI to enable high-quality previews.