VNCCS Character Generator

The node description tells you exactly what this replaces: "Replacement for VNCCS Pose Generation, Upscaler, and BG Remove subgraphs." Earlier VNCCS versions strung three separate subgraphs together to get from a character sheet to a finished, transparent sprite set. Character Generator collapses all three into one node - same job, fewer wires to keep track of.

What it does and where it sits

This is the base-character sibling of VNCCS_ClothesGenerator (which does the same thing for clothing outfits). You feed it a character source and a pose set, and it runs the generated poses through an upscale pass, then background removal, and hands you back a finished sheet. It's the node that actually turns "I designed a character" into "I have a sprite set I can drop into a game engine." It's is_output_node: true, so it writes to ComfyUI\output\VNCCS\Characters\ as part of running.

Inputs and outputs that matter

• poses and character (IMAGE) - pose set from Pose Studio, and the character source.
• pipe (VNCCS_PIPE) - comes from VNCCS Control Center. No downloaded models, no generation.
• background (enum: Green / Blue / White / Alpha) - chroma-key colour for the cutout. Pick the colour least present in your character's design so the key doesn't eat real detail.
• prompt (STRING) - additional text guidance on top of whatever the character/pose combo already implies.
• widget_data (STRING, JSON) - same shape as the Clothes Generator's: upscaler mode and quant (defaults to a Q4 GGUF build of SeedVR2), background-removal preset, SAM3 Details Recovery toggle, target resolution. Edit it through the node's widget UI rather than by hand.
• Optional sheets_path (STRING) - repoint at an existing character folder to regenerate in place instead of starting over.
• Outputs: sheet (the finished character sheet) and faces (cropped face outputs, useful for the emotion-generation stage later), plus the intermediates pose_generation and upscaled so you can see which stage produced a bad frame.

Notice it outputs sheet where Clothes Generator outputs sprites - same shape, different name, because one produces a character base and the other an outfit.

Installing it

ComfyUI Manager: search "VNCCS - Visual Novel Character Creation Suite", install, restart. Manually, clone https://github.com/AHEKOT/ComfyUI_VNCCS.git into custom_nodes, restart, then use Manager's Install missing custom nodes - Pose Studio, which feeds this node's poses input, lives in the author's separate VNCCS-Utils repo and needs installing too.

Common issues & troubleshooting

Generation errors with nothing obviously wrong in your inputs. Start at VNCCS Control Center. Every generator node in this pack depends on its pipe output, and a partially downloaded model set fails downstream in confusing ways rather than at the source.

Upscale quality is disappointing on a mid-range card. The default upscaler quant is the light option, not the good one. It's the same GGUF trade-off you'd see on any large model - smaller file, some fidelity given up. If you have VRAM to spare, step it up to a heavier quant in Control Center.

Clothing or eye colour bleeds into the removed background. Turn on SAM3 Details Recovery in widget_data - it's slower but specifically fixes this. If it fails to run at all, check for Triton on Windows; that's the known blocker for SAM3 support in this generation of node packs.

You only need to fix one pose in a batch. Use sheets_path to point back at the existing output folder instead of rerunning the whole set - this node (and its Clothes Generator sibling) is built to regenerate into an existing character folder.