Control Panel Pixaroma

What it does

Gather every dial, switch and setting you care about into one node and wire each straight to where it belongs, instead of hunting through the graph. Add a control, name it, then connect its output to any input. Each control becomes whatever you plug it into, and changes to match if you re-wire it elsewhere.

The kinds of control

Slider

For a number: steps, cfg, denoise, a LoRA strength, a width. Drag it (hold Shift for fine control) or double-click to type. Whole number or decimal is decided by the input you plug it into.

Switch

For a true / false setting. Click to flip it. Sends true / false, or 1 / 0 for a number input. You can rename its two states and set which one it starts in.

Dropdown

For a picker: sampler, scheduler, checkpoint, VAE, a LoRA name. It learns the whole list from the input; in the settings you tick which options to show, so it only offers the ones you actually use. For a long list, type part of a name in the filter box at the top, then All or None ticks or unticks just the matching ones.

Seed

For a seed input. R randomizes it on every run, N rolls a new fixed one, or click the number to type an exact seed.

Text

For words: a prompt, a filename, a style tag. Type straight into it on the node.

It matches whatever you plug it into

A fresh control is blank until you connect it. Wire it to a number and it is a slider, to a true / false and it is a switch, to a picker and it is a dropdown, to a seed and it is a seed, to a text box and it is a text field. Unplug it and wire it somewhere else and it changes to match. It will not connect to things it cannot drive, like a model or an image - it tells you if you try.

Settings

Right-click the node for the settings panel: add and remove controls, rename them, set a slider's range, choose which options a dropdown shows, and pick the colour the node paints with (per node, and you can save it as the default for every new Control Panel node). Reset values sends the sliders to the middle of their range and the switches and dropdowns to their default, leaving seeds and text as they are. Once a control is wired its type is fixed to match that input, so unplug it if you want to change the type.

Step size, and what it does to your value

A slider's Step is how far one nudge moves it, and it also decides how many decimals the control keeps: 1 gives whole numbers, 0.1 one decimal, 0.01 two, 0.001 three.

Changing the step re-snaps the current value onto the new grid, and that happens quietly. Coarsen a denoise of 0.7 to a step of 1 and it becomes 1, which is a real change to your render and will make that run take longer. If a run suddenly costs more after you touched the settings, check the value on the control rather than the step itself.

• The step is a control setting only. It never reaches the sampler, so no choice of step or decimals is slower than another: measured at 512x512 and 25 steps, three decimals ran 2030 ms against 2027 ms for whole numbers.
• Changing the step alone does not re-run anything either. Only a changed VALUE does.