👺 User Input (Float)

Every workflow ends up with a handful of numbers that are technically inside other nodes - the CFG strength buried in a sampler, the blend amount in some utility - and once they're buried, you can't see them at a glance. 👺 User Input (Float) pulls a value out to the top level and gives it a name. It's a labeled float passthrough: type a number, get the same number on the output, but now it's a named node in your graph instead of a widget tucked inside something else.

The one genuinely useful detail is the step size. The value field steps by 0.001 by default, so you can nudge a parameter in fine increments - handy when you're animating a strength between runs and want a tight knob, not a coarse one. The value itself has no clamp in the schema, so it'll accept whatever you type. And like its siblings in this pack's user-input family, the input_name field is a label: cosmetic in vanilla ComfyUI, but it's what the pack's controller system (Nilor Preset/Group nodes, built for the Brando UI) uses to identify the input. The _controller_hook output is that integration point - None in a plain graph, ignore it.

The pattern that makes this more than a widget: a single labeled float at the top of your graph, wired into every node that needs that value. Change one number, everything downstream updates. It's the same single-source-of-truth trick as the Boolean variant, just for numbers - and it's the node I'd reach for over the others in the family, since unnamed strength/scale values are the ones that actually bite you in a shared workflow.

Inputs and output

• input_name - the label, e.g. my_float_input. Cosmetic in vanilla ComfyUI, semantic in the controller UI.
• value - the float, stepped at 0.001 (default 0).
• float (FLOAT output) - the pass-through value, wire it wherever it's consumed.
• _controller_hook - only for the pack's controller nodes; ignore it otherwise.

Installing it

Part of Nilor Nodes (nilor-corp/nilor-nodes):

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/nilor-corp/nilor-nodes

or ComfyUI Manager → search "Nilor Nodes" → install → restart. No model files. The README lists Kijai's comfyui-kjnodes as a prerequisite, and the pack's dependency stack (boto3, fastapi, huggingface_hub, openexr) is heavy for a passthrough - you get it all regardless.

Troubleshooting

Set your expectations right: it's a passthrough, not a global variable. Changing the value on this node won't reach other nodes unless you actually wire the output to them, and input_name is a label, not a binding. If a float isn't doing what you expected, check the wires first. There's no community support for this pack to lean on, so the source is the reference. One honest note: if your workflow is small, a plain widget in the consuming node is fewer nodes and zero confusion. This family pays off when naming things - and the 0.001 stepping - actually save you time across a big graph.