VAE is not working, what happened?

[nuroisea]

VAE is not working, what happened?

[NUROISEA]

Can you provide the link for the VAE and model you used?

[Ayaya70]

I used Hassaku model. The link is
https://huggingface.co/nolanaatama/hssk/resolve/main/hssk.safetensors

I used the VAE present in the google colab, https://huggingface.co/hakurei/waifu-diffusion-v1-4/resolve/main/vae/kl-f8-anime2.ckpt
but normally I just upload the VAE I want to in batchlinks downloader, and never had this problem before

Stable diffusion model failed to load
Loading weights [None] from /content/models/hssk.safetensors
Creating model from config: /content/stable-diffusion-webui/configs/v1-inference.yaml
LatentDiffusion: Running in eps-prediction mode
DiffusionWrapper has 859.52 M params.
loading stable diffusion model: AssertionError
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/threading.py", line 973, in _bootstrap
self._bootstrap_inner()
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/threading.py", line 1016, in _bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/anyio/_backends/_asyncio.py", line 807, in run
result = context.run(func, *args)
File "/content/stable-diffusion-webui/modules/ui.py", line 1515, in
update_image_cfg_scale_visibility = lambda: gr.update(visible=shared.sd_model and shared.sd_model.cond_stage_key == "edit")
File "/content/stable-diffusion-webui/modules/shared.py", line 754, in sd_model
return modules.sd_models.model_data.get_sd_model()
File "/content/stable-diffusion-webui/modules/sd_models.py", line 439, in get_sd_model
load_model()
File "/content/stable-diffusion-webui/modules/sd_models.py", line 510, in load_model
load_model_weights(sd_model, checkpoint_info, state_dict, timer)
File "/content/stable-diffusion-webui/modules/sd_models.py", line 350, in load_model_weights
sd_vae.load_vae(model, vae_file, vae_source)
File "/content/stable-diffusion-webui/modules/sd_vae.py", line 138, in load_vae
assert os.path.isfile(vae_file), f"VAE {vae_source} doesn't exist: {vae_file}"
AssertionError: VAE from commandline argument doesn't exist: /content/VAE/https://huggingface.co/hakurei/waifu-diffusion-v1-4/resolve/main/vae/kl-f8-anime2.ckpt

Stable diffusion model failed to load
Loading weights [None] from /content/models/hssk.safetensors
Creating model from config: /content/stable-diffusion-webui/configs/v1-inference.yaml
LatentDiffusion: Running in eps-prediction mode
DiffusionWrapper has 859.52 M params

[NUROISEA]

AssertionError: VAE from commandline argument doesn't exist: /content/VAE/https://huggingface.co/hakurei/waifu-diffusion-v1-4/resolve/main/vae/kl-f8-anime2.ckpt

You don't need to place the entire link, you only need the file name, hence that error

Image of what to put in the VAE loader

You only need to place the link in the first cell :)

As shown in this image

[NUROISEA]

I tested both of the model links you provided, and they seem to work just fine.

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These are my cell inputs for reference:

First cell: ⏬ Download models

Second cell: 🚀 Launch web UI

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Closing this issue for now, feel free to open it again if something is really broken. And if so, please provide all of your inputs in the cells so we can debug this easier, thanks! :)

[Ayaya70]

Thanks so much, I can't believe it was something so simple this entire time... The bizarre is that I always did that and no problems happened before, oh my. One last question, did you test the batchlink downloader? I don't want to risk because I already spent hours on this but just wanna confirm if VAEs uploaded there still works

[NUROISEA]

Yep, Batchlinks works as expected!