IPAdapter Mad Assistant V4

IPAdapter Mad Assistant V4 is the same slider-to-string helper as the rest of the family, with the twelve layer Weight sliders stretched to -4.0 to 4.0. It's another rung on the same ladder: each V-number just widens the range, and V4 is where the ladder stops feeling like extra headroom and starts feeling like overkill.

To be direct: you will almost never need a weight this large. The Mad Scientist ecosystem's honest advice is that a 0.7–0.8 weight already lets the reference override the prompt, and the per-layer versions exist so you can push a specific layer further without nuking the whole image. At 4.0 on one layer, you're asking that layer to reproduce the reference's signal at maximum force - a legit trick for a late style layer, paired with early structure layers parked near zero, but a very narrow job. The realistic V4 workflow has one slider at the extreme and the other eleven barely off zero, and you arrived here by testing V2 and V3 first.

Nothing else changes. Twelve sliders in, comma-joined layer:weight string out through the layer_weights STRING output, wired into the IPAdapter Mad Scientist node's layer_weights input after converting that widget to an input. Random mode fills zero layers from the full -4.0 to 4.0 range - at this spread it's a dice roll with real teeth, so keep non-zero layers pinned and probably don't use it here at all. The seed input is declared in the schema but never referenced by the code, so random mode isn't reproducible no matter what you set.

Which one do you want?

V4 is the answer to "I tried V3 and the extreme still wasn't extreme enough." If you're at this point, you already know which layer you're fighting, and this node is just permission to fight it harder. For everyone else, the base node (0..1) or V1 (-1..1) is the daily driver.

Install

Same single-file pack, same steps:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/11dogzi/ComfUI-EGAdapterMadAssistant

Restart ComfyUI, or search ComfUI-EGAdapterMadAssistant in ComfyUI Manager. No pip, no dependencies, no model files - this pack ships zero requirements. You still need ComfyUI_IPAdapter_plus and its models for the Mad Scientist node to exist.

If the output seems to do nothing, the usual suspect applies: you forgot to convert Mad Scientist's layer_weights widget to an input before wiring this node into it.