EmAySee Text Combiner

ComfyUI workflows have a habit of growing string sources like weeds: a wildcard picker, an LLM output, a fixed style block, a tag list, a negative-prompt section. At some point they all need to land in the same CLIP Text Encode, and a single STRING input takes one string. EmAySee Text Combiner is the gather node for that job: up to fifty optional string inputs, joined with newlines, one string out. It's the "collect all the prompt parts" node in this pack, and for prompt-assembly workflows it's genuinely the right tool.

The fifty-cap matters more than it sounds like it should. Most text-combiner nodes top out around five or ten inputs; this one lets you wire a whole prompt architecture - subject, style, quality tags, lighting, camera, artist block, negative section - without stringing multiple combiners in series. Newlines are the separator (not commas, not spaces), so it suits multi-line prompt styles. If you want commas, join first with the pack's Text Replace or do it in a different combiner.

How it works

Every one of text_1 through text_50 is optional and force-input (you can't type into them - they're meant to be wired). The node walks them in order, skips any that are None or empty, and joins the rest with "\n":

return ("\n".join(text_list),)

That's the entire mechanism. Order is preserved, empty inputs are silently dropped, and the output is a single text string.

The inputs that matter

Honestly, none of them are special - they're all "text_N" and they all behave identically. What matters is the discipline you bring: keep a convention for which slot does what (slots 1-5 for subject blocks, 6-10 for style, etc.) so a workflow stays readable. The output, text, wires into your CLIP Text Encode's prompt input, or into another text node upstream of it.

One thing to know: because every input is forceInput, you can't use this node to hand-type a fixed string into a slot. If you want to include a constant block, pipe it through a simple text node first - which, in this pack, means running a string literal through any string passthrough or the Text Replace node with empty find/replace pairs.

Installing it

Standard for this pack: ComfyUI_EmAySee_CustomNodes via ComfyUI Manager, or git clone https://github.com/EmAySee/ComfyUI_EmAySee_CustomNodes into custom_nodes/, restart. No dependencies, no models - pure string joining.

Where people get burned

The newline separator is the main gotcha: if your downstream expects comma-separated tags, this node will hand you newline-separated output, which some tag consumers choke on. Route through a join/transform node if you need commas. Also, fifty inputs is a lot of widget noise on the graph - for most workflows you'll use five or six slots and leave the rest empty, and empties are skipped, so that's fine. But a stray space or line-break in a single input will land in the middle of your joined prompt, so keep your source strings clean upstream. If your combiner output starts with a blank line, check for a source node that outputs whitespace.