Enviral Load LoRA (Model Only, Deprecated)

ComfyUI's native Load LoRA assumes a CLIP is always part of the deal - model and clip inputs, always. That's right for image workflows. It's wrong for a growing class of video and model-only pipelines - WAN video chains being the poster child - where the LoRA patches the diffusion model and the CLIP isn't in the graph at all. Native Load LoRA doesn't fit, so you end up shoving a dummy CLIP through the graph just to make the socket line up.

Enviral Load LoRA (Model Only) is the loader for that case. One model in, one patched model out, no CLIP socket to fake.

How it works

Same native LoRA application under the hood as ComfyUI's own loader - it clones the model and applies the LoRA weights with strength_model. The lora_name input is the string-linkable dropdown shared across this pack's LoRA loaders: pick from the registered list or feed a linked string that resolves to a known LoRA path (exact, then case/path-normalized, then unique-suffix matching, validated before execution).

The inputs that matter

• model - the diffusion model to patch.
• lora_name - dropdown or linked string.
• strength_model - how strongly to apply it. Default 1.0; dial toward 0.5–0.8 for many style adapters, or go negative to invert.

Output: the patched model, straight into the sampler.

Install

Part of the Enviral Design Node Pack. ComfyUI Manager: search "Enviral Design Node Pack". Manual:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/EnviralDesign/comfyUI-enviral-design-node-pack

then restart. No extra dependencies.

When it's the right loader

WAN and other model-only pipelines are the honest use case - the README names WAN explicitly, where the LoRA chain patches the diffusion model without a CLIP connection. If you're loading LoRAs in an image workflow with a text encoder present, the full Enviral Load LoRA (or native) is the better fit; reaching for the model-only variant there just loses the clip patch for no gain. And if your LoRA chain involves several of these in sequence - a "LoRA stack" before the sampler - model-only loaders make the chain visually cleaner than a wall of dangling CLIP sockets.