VRGDG_LoadTextAdvanced

The VRGameDevGirl music-video workflow is a text factory with a memory: it writes lyrics, story concepts, style sheets, and scene prompts to disk, and on later runs it needs to read them back. VRGDG_LoadTextAdvanced is the reader for that whole system. Where VRGDG_LoadText handles the simple subject/scene case, this node understands the pack's actual file-tree - a dozen named folders, each holding a specific kind of intermediate.

That matters because the pipeline's most powerful trick is resumability. You don't re-run the LLM over the whole song every time; you re-read what it produced last run and continue. This node is how the workflow "remembers."

What it does

Inputs that matter:

• folder_name (enum, 12 choices) - which part of the pipeline to read. The options are the pack's working folders: fulllyrics, fullstory, storyconcept, storygroups, subjectandscenes, themestyle, themestyle2, lyricsegements, plus the prompt folders t2i_Prompts, t2v_Prompts, t2iNotes, i2vNotes. Each is a different intermediate the workflow writes.
• use_most_recent (BOOLEAN, default true) - auto-pick the newest file in the folder instead of a specific one. This is the setting that makes reruns just work.
• text_file (enum, 12 choices) - the specific file, e.g. full_lyrics.txt, storygroups.txt, subjectsandscenes.txt. Only matters when use_most_recent is off.
• folder_name_override (STRING) - type a folder name that isn't in the enum, for custom layouts.
• use_custom_base_path (BOOLEAN, default false) and custom_base_path (STRING) - point the whole loader at a different root when your outputs live somewhere else (a shared drive, a specific project folder).

Outputs:

• text (STRING) - the file contents.
• file_path (STRING) - where it was loaded from.

How the loop works

Run one: the LLM writes themestyle.txt and storygroups.txt; the pipeline consumes them; done. Run two: you want to tweak only the style and re-render. VRGDG_LoadTextAdvanced with use_most_recent on reads the newest themestyle.txt back into the graph, and you're iterating on the same creative decisions without regenerating them. That read-back loop is the difference between a workflow you use once and a workflow you refine for weeks. It's also how VRGDG_LLM_OutputSaver-style outputs (or this pack's own saved LLM text) get re-ingested.

Installing it

Part of the comfyui-vrgamedevgirl pack. ComfyUI Manager: search "vrgamedev", install, restart. Or:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/vrgamegirl19/comfyui-vrgamedevgirl

then install the README's requirements:

pip install -r custom_nodes/comfyui-vrgamedevgirl/requirements.txt

If it's not working

• It reads the wrong (old) file - use_most_recent picks by modification time. If some tool touched an old file, it wins. Turn it off and pick text_file explicitly.
• Empty text - the folder exists but the file you expect hasn't been written yet by an earlier stage. This node reads, it doesn't create; make sure the generator ran first.
• Custom layout won't resolve - set use_custom_base_path and custom_base_path rather than relying on the default root; the enum folders are relative to a default that won't match a moved install.