⭐ Star Load Sampler Settings

Sampler configuration is the part of ComfyUI you redo by hand every single workflow: steps, CFG, sampler name, scheduler, denoise - and if you get one wrong on a distilled model, you get garbage that's hard to debug. Star Load Sampler Settings turns your favorite configurations into named presets you pull from a dropdown, so the settings live in one place instead of scattered across ten widgets.

How it works

The node ships with four presets baked in - SDXL Fast 10 Steps Refiner, SDXL Fast 12 Steps, FLUX Fast 12 Steps, and FLUX Fast 10 Steps Refiner - and the settings_name dropdown lists whatever's stored in the StarNodes settings manager. You pick a name and the node emits the settings as typed bundles: sdstar_settings for the SD/SDXL family, fluxstar_settings for Flux. Those custom types are the contract - they plug into the pack's ⭐ StarSampler (Unified) settings input, which is the node that actually consumes them. It's a load-and-play pair: Loader here, StarSampler downstream, done.

You're not stuck with the four defaults. ⭐ Star Save Sampler Settings writes your own named presets into the same manager (persisted to disk, so they survive restarts), and ⭐ Star Delete Sampler Settings cleans up the ones you outgrew. The message output is a plain STRING confirming what was loaded - wire it into a text display if you want visible confirmation in the canvas.

Inputs and outputs

• settings_name - the preset dropdown.
• sdstar_settings (out) - SD/SDXL settings bundle for ⭐ StarSampler.
• fluxstar_settings (out) - Flux settings bundle for ⭐ StarSampler.
• message (out) - what got loaded, as text.

Only the bundle you're using is populated - a Flux preset returns sdstar_settings as None, so don't wire the wrong one into your sampler and wonder why it's blank.

Where it fits

If you keep a handful of go-to recipes - a fast draft preset, a slow quality preset, a distilled-Turbo preset - this turns "remember and retype" into "pick from a list." It's the small discipline that stops you from running a 40-step quality setup when you meant the 10-step fast one. The KB's sampler advice applies: take the model card's pair first, and this node just makes it repeatable.

Installing

Part of the StarNodes pack - install Starnodes via ComfyUI Manager, or:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/Starnodes2024/ComfyUI_StarNodes
cd ComfyUI_StarNodes
pip install -r requirements.txt

Restart, then search star on the canvas. No models.

Common issues

The most common confusion is that this node alone does nothing visual - it emits bundles, and you still need ⭐ StarSampler (or a compatible consumer) on the receiving end. If the dropdown is missing presets you expected, you haven't saved them with ⭐ Star Save Sampler Settings yet - the four shipped ones are a starter kit, not a library. And remember the SD bundles and Flux bundles are separate types: loading a Flux preset and feeding the result to an SDXL sampler is a type mismatch that fails visibly.