Asset Selector v3.6 (Prod) - Akki

The Asset Selector v3.6 is the one node in the AkkiNodes pack that doesn't call an LLM at all - and that's the point. It's pure deterministic Python that parses the production CSV and hands you master lists of every asset in the film: characters, props, set dressing, costumes, VFX, and SFX, plus counts and the ability to select a specific character or set. This is the "code is law" philosophy at its purest: this is bookkeeping, and bookkeeping should never be left to a stochastic model.

What it does

Feed it the canonical production CSV from Phase 2 and it returns a wall of outputs. The ones you'll actually reach for:

• master_character_list, master_prop_list, master_set_dressing_list, master_costume_list, master_vfx_list, master_sfx_list - every asset, deduplicated across the whole film.
• total_shots_count and total_character_count - quick production stats.
• selected_character_name and selected_character_costumes - the character chosen by the character_selector index, and their costumes.
• selected_main_set_name and set_hierarchy_json - the set chosen by set_selector, plus a JSON hierarchy of sets and their variations. This feeds the Set Lookdev node directly.
• master_main_sets_list and total_main_sets_count - the unique location sluglines treated as master sets.

The v3.6 design treats each unique location slugline as one master set and only extracts time-of-day as a variation - a deliberately simple, robust structure so downstream nodes don't have to untangle a mess of near-duplicate sets.

The inputs

Just three: csv_report (the STRING containing your CSV), character_selector (an integer, default 1), and set_selector (an integer, default 1). The selectors are 1-based indexes into the character and set lists. Bump them to move through the cast and locations - in a loop, this is how you'd iterate over every character for lookdev.

Install

Standard pack install, no extra dependencies beyond the pack itself:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/routhakash/AkkiNodes-LLM-Suite-for-ComfyUI

Or ComfyUI Manager → search "AkkiNodes LLM Suite" → install, run install.bat as admin on Windows, restart. No GGUF needed for this node since it never touches a model - though the pack as a whole does.

One thing worth knowing: the source uses hard-coded Python alias dictionaries to merge asset synonyms (e.g., "sturdy boots" and "hiking boots" count as one costume). The author's own bug log flags this as a candidate to move into a user-editable aliases.json, but for now, if your CSV uses wording the aliases don't cover, you'll see duplicates in the lists. Cosmetic, mostly - but it's the kind of thing that makes you check the console once before trusting the counts.