From 6e3c6087d4f4e24d8eedd8d5c6e17c9e88eb91ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: blepping <blepping@tuta.io>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:06:10 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Allow using Flux2 TAE is a normal VAE

---
 comfy/sd.py |  5 ++++-
 nodes.py    | 53 +++++++++++++++++------------------------------------
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

diff --git a/comfy/sd.py b/comfy/sd.py
index e573804a5..6a4eeb001 100644
--- a/comfy/sd.py
+++ b/comfy/sd.py
@@ -477,7 +477,10 @@ class VAE:
                                                             encoder_config={'target': "comfy.ldm.modules.diffusionmodules.model.Encoder", 'params': encoder_config},
                                                             decoder_config={'target': "comfy.ldm.modules.temporal_ae.VideoDecoder", 'params': decoder_config})
             elif "taesd_decoder.1.weight" in sd:
-                self.latent_channels = sd["taesd_decoder.1.weight"].shape[1]
+                if isinstance(metadata, dict) and "tae_latent_channels" in metadata:
+                    self.latent_channels = metadata["tae_latent_channels"]
+                else:
+                    self.latent_channels = sd["taesd_decoder.1.weight"].shape[1]
                 self.first_stage_model = comfy.taesd.taesd.TAESD(latent_channels=self.latent_channels)
             elif "vquantizer.codebook.weight" in sd: #VQGan: stage a of stable cascade
                 self.first_stage_model = StageA()
diff --git a/nodes.py b/nodes.py
index 299b3d758..8817e78e2 100644
--- a/nodes.py
+++ b/nodes.py
@@ -728,50 +728,26 @@ class LoraLoaderModelOnly(LoraLoader):
 
 class VAELoader:
     video_taes = ["taehv", "lighttaew2_2", "lighttaew2_1", "lighttaehy1_5", "taeltx_2"]
-    image_taes = ["taesd", "taesdxl", "taesd3", "taef1"]
+    image_taes = ["taesd", "taesdxl", "taesd3", "taef1", "taef2"]
+
     @staticmethod
     def vae_list(s):
         vaes = folder_paths.get_filename_list("vae")
         approx_vaes = folder_paths.get_filename_list("vae_approx")
-        sdxl_taesd_enc = False
-        sdxl_taesd_dec = False
-        sd1_taesd_enc = False
-        sd1_taesd_dec = False
-        sd3_taesd_enc = False
-        sd3_taesd_dec = False
-        f1_taesd_enc = False
-        f1_taesd_dec = False
-
+        have_img_encoder, have_img_decoder = set(), set()
         for v in approx_vaes:
-            if v.startswith("taesd_decoder."):
-                sd1_taesd_dec = True
-            elif v.startswith("taesd_encoder."):
-                sd1_taesd_enc = True
-            elif v.startswith("taesdxl_decoder."):
-                sdxl_taesd_dec = True
-            elif v.startswith("taesdxl_encoder."):
-                sdxl_taesd_enc = True
-            elif v.startswith("taesd3_decoder."):
-                sd3_taesd_dec = True
-            elif v.startswith("taesd3_encoder."):
-                sd3_taesd_enc = True
-            elif v.startswith("taef1_encoder."):
-                f1_taesd_dec = True
-            elif v.startswith("taef1_decoder."):
-                f1_taesd_enc = True
-            else:
+            parts = v.split("_", 1)
+            if len(parts) != 2 or parts[0] not in s.image_taes:
                 for tae in s.video_taes:
                     if v.startswith(tae):
                         vaes.append(v)
-
-        if sd1_taesd_dec and sd1_taesd_enc:
-            vaes.append("taesd")
-        if sdxl_taesd_dec and sdxl_taesd_enc:
-            vaes.append("taesdxl")
-        if sd3_taesd_dec and sd3_taesd_enc:
-            vaes.append("taesd3")
-        if f1_taesd_dec and f1_taesd_enc:
-            vaes.append("taef1")
+                        break
+                continue
+            if parts[1].startswith("encoder."):
+                have_img_encoder.add(parts[0])
+            elif parts[1].startswith("decoder."):
+                have_img_decoder.add(parts[0])
+        vaes += [k for k in have_img_decoder if k in have_img_encoder]
         vaes.append("pixel_space")
         return vaes
 
@@ -827,6 +803,11 @@ class VAELoader:
             else:
                 vae_path = folder_paths.get_full_path_or_raise("vae", vae_name)
             sd, metadata = comfy.utils.load_torch_file(vae_path, return_metadata=True)
+        if vae_name == "taef2":
+            if metadata is None:
+                metadata = {"tae_latent_channels": 128}
+            else:
+                metadata["tae_latent_channels"] = 128
         vae = comfy.sd.VAE(sd=sd, metadata=metadata)
         vae.throw_exception_if_invalid()
         return (vae,)