Eric Qwen Direction Load

The read side of your direction library. Eric Qwen Direction Load is the simplest node in the direction system: a dropdown that lists every .safetensors direction file under ComfyUI/models/qwen_directions/, and one output that hands the loaded QWEN_DIRECTION to a Direction Apply or Direction Inspect.

That's genuinely all it does, and that's the point. The heavy lifting - computing, averaging, normalizing, saving - happened once. This node is how you consume the result without redoing any of it.

The one input

• direction_name - the dropdown. It scans recursively, so directions saved into subfolders like silvermax/01 show up too, and it refreshes on every run, so a freshly-saved direction appears without a restart. When nothing's been saved yet it shows a placeholder - "(none - save a direction first)" - which is exactly the hint you need if the list is empty.

One output: direction, ready to feed Direction Apply (to push a base conditioning along it) or Direction Inspect (to visualize what's actually in it before you commit).

The library workflow it closes the loop on

# once: build and save
Encode(color) → Encode(B&W) → Direction Compute → Direction Save("silvermax_final")

# every time after: consume
Direction Load("silvermax_final") → Direction Apply(base_cond, scale=1.0) → Conditioned Edit

A typical workflow pattern the docs push: load your direction, branch it to both Inspect and Apply - look at the heatmap once to confirm the direction is doing what you think, then let it drive the edit.

Installing it

ComfyUI Manager → "Eric Qwen-Edit", or:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/EricRollei/Eric_Qwen_Edit_Experiments.git

Restart. Loading a direction needs no model - it's a small tensor read. But the full graph it slots into (Encode → Apply → Conditioned Edit) needs a loaded Qwen-Image-Edit pipeline via the pack's loader; model from Qwen/Qwen-Image-Edit-2511, ~54 GB.

Gotchas

• Empty dropdown? You haven't saved a direction yet, or the file isn't in models/qwen_directions/. It only scans that one tree.
• It's the file you saved, not a live link. Load reads the tensor once. If you overwrite the file with a new version, re-run the workflow to pick it up (the dropdown refreshes per run).
• Directions are LoRA-portable. Don't worry about which LoRA was loaded when the direction was created - direction files live in text-encoder embedding space, so they're independent of the denoiser LoRA you later apply. Load and go.