VNCCS Image List

Most VNCCS nodes generate images. This one just organises them. VNCCS Image List takes a list of images and outputs them as a single IMAGE list, which sounds trivial until you're building a custom pipeline around VNCCS's generator nodes and need to feed a batch of reference sprites, pose examples, or costume references into something that expects a list rather than a single image.

What it does

The input, images, is a STRING with a default of [] - meaning the node's widget UI manages a list of image references behind the scenes and represents that list as JSON internally, the same pattern Control Center uses for node_state and the generator nodes use for widget_data. What you actually interact with is the widget: add images, reorder them, remove them. What comes out is a proper IMAGE output with is_list: true, ready to feed anywhere ComfyUI expects a batch.

Where this is actually useful

VNCCS's built-in workflows mostly handle batching internally - you don't manually assemble the pose set that goes into VNCCS_ClothesGenerator, Pose Studio does that for you. Image List earns its place when you're stepping outside the prescribed Step 1/2/3 workflows: feeding a set of hand-picked reference images into a custom detour, collecting outputs from several runs to inspect side by side, or building your own variant of a VNCCS stage that needs a curated batch rather than whatever Pose Studio generated automatically.

Inputs and outputs

• images (STRING, default []) - the list, managed through the node's widget rather than typed as raw JSON.
• Output: images (IMAGE, is_list: true) - the assembled batch.

That's the full schema. No filtering, resizing, or reordering logic exposed beyond what the widget itself does - it's a collection node, not a processing one.

Installing it

Comes with the base pack. ComfyUI Manager: search "VNCCS - Visual Novel Character Creation Suite", install latest, restart. Manual: cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes && git clone https://github.com/AHEKOT/ComfyUI_VNCCS.git, restart. This node doesn't touch Control Center's model downloads at all - it's pure graph plumbing, safe to use even before you've set up any of the generation models.

Common issues & troubleshooting

The list comes out empty even though you added images in the widget. Since the underlying data is a JSON string the widget writes to, a workflow saved and reloaded across a VNCCS update can occasionally end up with a stale or malformed images field. If a run comes back empty, reopen the widget and re-add the images rather than trying to hand-edit the JSON string.

Order matters downstream and it's not what you expect. The list preserves whatever order you built it in through the widget - if a downstream node pairs images by index against another list (poses against costumes, say), a reordered Image List will silently misalign them. Worth double-checking visually before a long batch run rather than after.

You actually just have one image. For a single image you don't need this node at all - wire the image output directly. Reach for Image List specifically when something downstream expects a batch.