docs: add MiniMax H3 attention, step-count, and audio-lane guidance plus Qwen-Image-2.1 settings

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This PR adds usage guidance to four existing pages. Nothing is added outside those pages: the MiniMax H3 changes extend the resolution notes and add a step-count and a sampler section on the H3 overview page plus audio-lane items and a dialogue section on the prompt guide, the Qwen-Image-2.1 changes extend the Sampler settings and Resolution sections, and the startup-flags changes add a note to the Cache section and a note to the API-nodes flag.

MiniMax H3 overview (tutorials/video/minimax/minimax-h3.mdx)

New section Speeding up generation with sparse attention:

• Keep sparse attention out of the first and last steps of the schedule. The node defaults to start_percent 0.2 and end_percent 1.0, so sparsity runs from 20% of the schedule through the final step. Starting later (around 0.4) lets the shot's overall motion resolve with dense attention first, and ending earlier (around 0.9) keeps the closing frames dense.
• Keep sink_conditioning at exact_kv_and_rows on H3 so the packed text, audio, and reference rows stay exact and the generated audio is not degraded.
• tau sparsity levels for sol-attn (1.0 about 16% of key blocks exact, 1.5 about 7%, 2.0 about 2.7%; default 1.3).
• Short clips gain little: sequences under min_tokens and blocks listed in dense_blocks stay dense.

Defaults and parameter meanings were verified against the BlockSparseAttention node schema in comfy_extras/nodes_sparse_attention.py.

New Step count section. The step count a shot needs depends on its content: shots with simple content hold up at 12 to 16 steps, while shots with high-frequency detail (chainmail, filigree or floral patterns, piles of small objects) keep improving up to about 50 steps. Below that range those areas show unstable triangular grid artifacts that swim under motion, and distilled step-reduction LoRAs and turbo checkpoints surface them first. Higher counts also improve prompt adherence and motion, with most of the gain by step 16, and steps do not add sharpness the native canvas cannot resolve. The section replaces the previous step-count sentence, which sat inside Setting the output resolution and only covered stiff motion.

Earlier commits on this branch cover the remaining H3 attention and resolution items: INT8 attention artifacts and the Comfy Kitchen attention / Model Attention Backend fix, the INT8-convrot incompatibility caveat (ComfyUI issue #15529), the ComfyUI 0.32.0+ requirement for --use-ck-attention, and the 1MP native canvas guidance.

MiniMax H3 prompt guide (tutorials/video/minimax/minimax-h3-prompt-guide.mdx)

New item 7 in General tips: write the audio lanes explicitly.

• Fill in overall_soundscape and non_diegetic_music on every prompt, and write N/A for a lane you do not want.
• Undefined audio lanes are the usual cause of unwanted talking in quiet shots: H3 fills the silence with speech or gibberish, and an audio reference makes it worse because the model behaves as if a character should always be talking.
• When a clip keeps producing unwanted speech, adding an explicit overall_soundscape line plus non_diegetic_music: N/A is the first thing to try.

The field definitions and the N/A semantics follow MiniMax's official base prompt writing guide (overall_soundscape covers ambient sound, physical action sounds, and non-verbal human sounds; non_diegetic_music covers score only the audience hears).

Startup flags (development/comfyui-server/startup-flags.mdx)

Note in the Cache section, next to the existing flag table: cached node results are reused between runs in the same session, and --cache-none is the flag for starting each run from a clean cache (debugging a workflow, comparing settings, or ruling out carry-over from an earlier run), at the cost of re-executing every node.

Qwen-Image-2.1 (tutorials/image/qwen/qwen-image-2-1.mdx)

Sampler settings now documents both sampling levers.

cfg: the templates ship cfg 1, and at cfg 1 ComfyUI skips the negative conditioning pass entirely (sampling_function() returns early with uncond_ = None in comfy/samplers.py), so a negative prompt has no effect at the default. The useful range starts just above 1: cfg 2 follows dense prompts more closely, including small text and numbers, and makes the negative prompt active again, at the cost of some edge sharpening. Exposure shifts toward over-bright or over-dim above 1, cfg 5 degrades quality badly, and cfg 0.5 breaks the image. These are starting points rather than official recommendations.

steps: the template's 25 is a middle setting rather than a floor. Simple localized edits hold up at 4 to 8 steps, so a request such as changing one garment's color runs several times faster than at the default, while edits that rewrite the whole frame lose coherence and need the full 25. Stubborn fine detail such as hands and fingers settles by about 30 steps, and going from 25 to 40 steps reduces fizzle in detailed areas.

Resolution: the section now follows the node logic in comfy_extras/nodes_qwen.py (TextEncodeQwenImage21). resolution is a pixel budget applied to the first reference image, and the sampling latent comes out at that resized size, so a large reference means a large canvas: a 3000x4000 reference samples at 3008x4000 (about 12 MP) with resolution 0, against about 896x1184 (about 1 MP) at resolution 1024, which is roughly 6 s/it against about 0.3 s/it on an RTX 5090. The node's own default is 1024 and the template ships 0, which keeps each reference at its own pixel size rounded to a multiple of 32. Lowering resolution speeds an edit up by generating a smaller result, not by adding detail.

The wording across all four pages is written for first-time readers: statements describe what happens under which conditions, without references to outside testing threads.

Second pass: source-verified corrections

A fresh-eyes review of each page end to end turned up factual gaps beyond the original additions. All were checked against the ComfyUI source, the workflow templates, and MiniMax's official prompt guides, and are fixed in the same branch:

• H3 overview: the open weights generate at a 768-pixel short edge, so 2K output needs a separate upscale (the intro used to promise 2K while a later section explained the upscale). Per-template ComfyUI requirements are now stated (0.30.0 / 0.34.0 / 0.35.0 / 0.36.0). The page list and template list include FastH3 and the Image to Video continuation template. The INT8 attention section splits the fix by checkpoint, since Comfy Kitchen attention crashes with the int8-convrot checkpoints the templates ship (issue #15529); it names the bf16 counterparts and the model-chain position for the backend node. Sparse attention states the sol-attn method, the CUDA and comfy-kitchen requirement, and the silent dense fallback. The step-count numbers carry their premise (base weights, Lightning LoRA switch off, 20 template steps). Added the missing UpdateReminder snippet import.
• H3 prompt guide: added the official prompt structure (image-alignment instruction line for I2VA, FL2VA, and L2VA, then the three core fields), split the overall_soundscape and non_diegetic_music N/A rules, listed all four audio relationship markers, specified on-screen text as verbatim and untranslated, and described length as frames.
• Qwen-Image-2.1: 16 node slots against the 10 the templates wire, the resolution control's location and range with the two canvas rules split, cfg and steps aligned with the template's own notes, and the cache node's device / dtype controls plus its experimental status documented.
• startup-flags: documented the 12 flags that were missing from a page that claims to cover every flag (--use-ck-attention, --models-directory, --high-ram, --vram-headroom, the --disable-* family, --enable-asset-hashing, --debug-hang), corrected the --cache-ram inactive ceiling to 128 GB, and added DETAIL plus the file output form of --verbose.

Still open, listed here rather than guessed at: the H3 commercial licence note (needs the official licence Q&A), per-aspect resolution examples for the H3 Resolution Selector, platform notes for Sage Attention, the two page descriptions over the 155-character target, and the embedding wording in the prompt guide.

Changes

• tutorials/video/minimax/minimax-h3.mdx (zh / ja / ko synced)
• tutorials/video/minimax/minimax-h3-prompt-guide.mdx (zh / ja / ko synced)
• development/comfyui-server/startup-flags.mdx (zh / ja / ko synced)
• tutorials/image/qwen/qwen-image-2-1.mdx (zh / ja / ko synced)

The translations were written by hand in the same commit, and sync-hash-i18n.ts refreshed translationSourceHash together with the changed block hashes for every page. check-anchors.py and check-i18n-sync.mjs pass locally on the changed files. The branch is merged with the latest upstream/main.

Additional page: MiniMax H3 sampler behavior

tutorials/video/minimax/minimax-h3.mdx (zh/ja/ko synced) now carries a Sampler and scheduler section between Step count and Speeding up generation with Sage Attention, and the page's own summary bullet lists it.

• Every local MiniMax H3 workflow samples with res_multistep and the simple scheduler. The Text to Video, Image to Video, and FastH3 templates keep KSamplerSelect and BasicScheduler inside the workflow's subgraph, so the subgraph has to be opened to reach them. In the Reference to Video, Multiframe Reference, and Fun ControlNet Union templates both nodes sit on the top-level canvas.
• res_multistep reuses the denoised estimate from the previous step, so its first step runs as an ordinary first-order (Euler) step and the second-order steps start with the second step. er_sde ramps its stages the same way: one stage on its first step, two on the second, and, at the default max_stage of 3, all three from the third step on.
• Multistep history lives inside a single sampling run rather than in the latent, so a workflow that splits the schedule across two samplers starts the second one from an empty history: its first step runs at first order and the second-order update resumes from its second step. A short tail is where that shows, because one of its few steps is spent at lower order.
• The page's own summary bullet now lists step count and the sampler section, so it matches the sections the page actually has.

Verified against comfy/k_diffusion/sampling.py (res_multistep, sample_er_sde), comfy/samplers.py, comfy_extras/nodes_custom_sampler.py, and the eight local H3 and FastH3 template JSONs in workflow_templates.

Latest update: dialogue and speaker rules, and the API-nodes flag note

MiniMax H3 prompt guide (tutorials/video/minimax/minimax-h3-prompt-guide.mdx, zh/ja/ko synced)

New Dialogue and speakers section between General tips and Prompt embeddings. The page already covered visible text and the audio lanes, but not the part of the prompt with the strictest format:

• Speaker IDs: every voice in the prompt takes an ID such as (S1) or (S2), including off-screen and singing voices, and repeats it in every shot where it speaks. The IDs number speakers rather than subjects, so the first voice is (S1) even when its character is numbered differently, and speakers who vocalize together take a compound ID such as (S1,S2).
• <d> tags: the identifying phrase, the speaker ID, the action, and the delivery stay outside the tags, and the tags carry only the language tag plus the words, copied verbatim. Each line belongs inside the shot where it is spoken, in the same paragraph as that shot's action.
• Voiceover: a line the audience hears without the character speaking it needs the exact phrase says in an off-screen voiceover and a statement right after the <d> block that the on-screen character's lips remain closed. A line that continues across a cut needs <scenetrans> at both connection points and a statement that the audio carries over the transition.
• Reference prompts with several speakers: H3 can hand an audio reference to the wrong speaker even when the prompt text and the reference connection order are both correct. Keep each shot to the references that shot needs, and tie a line to a visible event rather than to an absolute timecode, which is what cut times are for. A line that still lands on the wrong speaker can be generated with a voice tool and supplied as that speaker's audio reference, with the relationship marker that matches the clip: fully_copy when the clip becomes the video's complete final audio track, partially_copy when it covers part of the timeline.

The rules, the fixed voiceover phrasing, and the marker semantics come from MiniMax's official base guide (section 4.4, speakers, dialogue, and singing) and the full-reference guide's relationship marker table.

Two fresh-reader fixes on the same page: the image-alignment line presented the I2VA sentence as if FL2VA and L2VA shared it, while both have their own fixed sentences in the official guide; and the page intro plus description now name the dialogue and speaker rules alongside the sections the page actually has.

Startup flags (development/comfyui-server/startup-flags.mdx, zh/ja/ko synced)

Note directly after the flag table in Custom Nodes & API Nodes, where --disable-api-nodes is listed: the flag adds a Content-Security-Policy that keeps the page on resources served by ComfyUI itself, so images, fonts, media, frames, and network requests from other origins are blocked, on top of API nodes not being registered at all. A preview or thumbnail that normally loads going missing after a restart is the symptom to check the launch arguments for.

Verified against comfy/cli_args.py (flag help text), server.py (create_block_external_middleware() and the Content-Security-Policy it sets on every response), and main.py plus nodes.py (init_api_nodes=not args.disable_api_nodes).

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The documentation adds MiniMax H3 generation, attention, sparse-attention, and prompt audio guidance. It adds Qwen-Image workflow guidance and documents cache reuse with --cache-none. Localized pages update their translation metadata.

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MiniMax H3 guidance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
H3 generation and attention guidance tutorials/video/minimax/minimax-h3.mdx, ja/tutorials/video/minimax/minimax-h3.mdx, ko/tutorials/video/minimax/minimax-h3.mdx, zh/tutorials/video/minimax/minimax-h3.mdx	Documents native-canvas generation, separate 2K upscaling, motion-related step counts, INT8 attention artifacts, backend selection, checkpoint compatibility, bfloat16 fallback, and sparse-attention settings.
Prompt audio lane guidance tutorials/video/minimax/minimax-h3-prompt-guide.mdx, ja/tutorials/video/minimax/minimax-h3-prompt-guide.mdx, ko/tutorials/video/minimax/minimax-h3-prompt-guide.mdx, zh/tutorials/video/minimax/minimax-h3-prompt-guide.mdx	Adds guidance to define overall_soundscape and non_diegetic_music explicitly, using N/A for unused lanes.

Cache startup documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Cache behavior notes development/comfyui-server/startup-flags.mdx, ja/development/comfyui-server/startup-flags.mdx, ko/development/comfyui-server/startup-flags.mdx, zh/development/comfyui-server/startup-flags.mdx	Documents same-session cache reuse and explains that --cache-none re-executes every node and increases generation time.

Qwen-Image guidance

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Qwen workflow settings guidance tutorials/image/qwen/qwen-image-2-1.mdx, ja/tutorials/image/qwen/qwen-image-2-1.mdx, ko/tutorials/image/qwen/qwen-image-2-1.mdx, zh/tutorials/image/qwen/qwen-image-2-1.mdx	Documents CFG behavior, negative-prompt handling, resolution performance, reference-image costs, and prompt-adherence effects at oversized targets.

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🟡 Minor · Add evidence or qualify the H3 empirical guidance in all four locales. · minimax-h3.mdx:77-110

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Add evidence or qualify the H3 empirical guidance in all four locales. The native-resolution and step-count results, INT8 artifact mechanism and workarounds, and sparse-attention schedule and tau values are presented as community findings without a source or reproducible conditions. Add citations and test details such as checkpoint, ComfyUI version, hardware, workflow, inputs, seed, and comparison method. If that evidence is unavailable, label the values as anecdotal starting points and avoid guarantee-like wording. Apply the correction to the English, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese pages. Give each claim a source trail, not only a community tale. Keep the existing #15529 citation for the INT8-convrot incompatibility, but do not treat it as evidence for the other claims.

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In `@tutorials/video/minimax/minimax-h3.mdx` around lines 77 - 110, The H3
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