🐠01漫剧剧本准备@炮老师的小课堂

The 🐠 漫剧 ("manga-drama") suite inside paolaoshi/ComfyUI-dapaoAPI is a text pipeline for Chinese vertical short drama: it writes the script, visual setting, storyboard, image prompts and video prompts that a separate image/video model turns into pixels. The three guided nodes - Prepare, Visual, Finish - are how you're actually supposed to run it, and DapaoDramaPrepare is node 01, the entry point.

You paste in whatever you start with - an existing script, an original idea, or a novel to adapt - pick a few project settings, and it internally runs the front half of the whole chain: novel analysis if there's a novel, series planning if you ask, then script writing or normalization. No manual branch-and-merge, no wiring eleven nodes together. One thing in, one bundle out, and the bundle carries everything later nodes need.

The input that decides everything

• 📥 内容来源 - 已有剧本 (existing script), 原创想法 (original idea), or 小说改编 (novel adaptation). This changes what the node does internally: existing scripts get normalized (kept, reformatted, contradictions flagged - not rewritten into a new story), original ideas get planned and written from scratch, novels get segmented analysis first, then planning, then writing.
• 📄 剧本或故事内容 - the actual text. The tooltip is honest about scope: one episode at a time. No auto-generating a whole season.
• 🎛️ 准备任务 (optional, hidden under advanced) - the escape hatch. 自动完成剧本 is the default; or run 仅原著分析 (analysis only), 仅系列开发, 仅剧本创作或修订, 仅导入已有文档（不调用LLM）, or - the interesting one - 续写下一集（继承前集）, which carries the previous episode's project, characters and visual baseline forward and drafts the next episode. That's how you make episode 2 without re-answering everything.

The project settings on the face

Because this node creates the project, it exposes the same config the advanced Project node does: 📛 项目名称, ⏱️ 单集目标秒数, 🎨 制作形态 (2D animated / 3D / static / ink / Q-version / live-action), 🖌️ 视觉风格, 📐 画幅比例 (9:16 default - this is vertical drama), 🎬 视频提示词方言, 🖼️ 参考方式, plus the 📚 系列规划 toggle. Episode number and other fine print live under optional inputs.

The money reality

This is an LLM node: fill 🔑 API密钥 (or set DAPAO_API_KEY before launch and leave it blank), pick 🤖 LLM模型 (defaults to the relay's gemini-3.7-flash), and understand that the pipeline bills per internal stage, not per node. The docs price it plainly: an existing script down the default chain is ~5 LLM responses (script 1, visual 2, storyboard+video 2); static form is 4; novel segmentation and series planning add calls. Fixed 🎲 随机种 + unchanged content = 48-hour reuse of successful responses (fewer actual charges); failures never auto-retry.

Outputs

📦 漫剧资料包 → wire to DapaoDramaVisual (02). 📄 阶段文档 (the script as written). ℹ️ 处理信息 (usage + checks). 💾 完整资料包JSON（续集用） - save this when the episode's done; next season, a fresh Prepare node's "续写下一集" mode accepts it directly, no need to reconnect the original nodes.

Installing and gotchas

ComfyUI Manager → search "dapaoAPI", or git clone https://github.com/paolaoshi/ComfyUI-dapaoAPI into custom_nodes, install requirements.txt, restart, and Ctrl+F5 the browser (new menu + front-end bits). No model files.

The pack's README is a changelog for its API image/video nodes and never mentions this suite - real docs live in the repo's docs/short_drama_suite.md and example_workflows/漫剧_00_三节点简化流程.json (Chinese, but the node labels match). Keys typed into nodes can sit in plaintext inside saved workflow files - the tooltip warns you to strip them before sharing, and the bundle itself never carries auth.