[FEATURE REQUEST] Support extra_model_paths.yaml

[alessandroperilli]

Thanks for this great node!

Right now, the node exposes all subfolders in /comfyui/models/. Many ComfyUI users remap the location of their models to dedicated folders or drives via extra_model_paths.yaml to reuse the same model catalog across multiple ComfyUI installations (for example: dev & stable).

It would be really useful if the node could support whatever has been defined in that file.

Thanks for considering this idea.

[mythz]

Point of this is to help make workflows shareable, if it's saving to a custom path then it's not going to work for comfy instances without the same configuration.

Can't you symlink your model folders to the shared model catalog?

[alessandroperilli]

The change I'm suggesting expands the use cases to "repeatable installations, no matter the setup", and respects the way ComfyUI maps folders.

Symlinking seems significantly more complex for the average user than editing a yaml file to me, and it's not always possible in ComfyUI cloud-hosted environments.

If the extra_model_paths.yaml is populated with a different base_path, the node will take it into account. That's all I'm suggesting.

If you really want to make it explicit, the node could have a selector at the top (Folders: default | custom) and if the user chooses custom the node will refer to extra_model_paths.yaml to populate its dropdown menu.