With cropping on, the sampled latent is the crop's, which is exactly what a
refinement pass wants: the face has pixels there and the surrounding frame
never needed a second pass. But the node composited before returning, so
there was no way to get between the two.
paste_back: off now keeps images and latent in crop space, crop_bboxes comes
out alongside them, and the new BFS Head Swap Paste Back node composites at
the end with the same edge-aware feather and mask confinement.
Inpainting preserves the INITIAL latent outside the mask. The node was
handing it the empty latent, so everything outside the mask came back grey
instead of the source video -- the encode that a normal inpaint graph does
before Set Latent Noise Mask was simply missing.
The guide chunk is now VAE-encoded and becomes the sampling latent whenever
a mask is in play. On AV latents the audio stream from the connected latent
is kept and only the video stream is replaced.
The frontend fetches node help from /extensions/<module>/docs/<NodeID>.md,
which is served out of WEB_DIRECTORY -- a docs/ folder at the pack root is
never reached. Moved to web/docs/.
mask_strength controls how completely the masked region is replaced. It is
NOT how you get expressions: those arrive through the aligned guide, which
carries the whole source performance regardless of the mask. Below 1.0 the
original latent blends back, keeping the original geometry and dragging the
original identity along with it -- an average of both faces. Documented as
such so it is not reached for by mistake.
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