Forge Neo silently ignores selected ControlNet models, falls back to presets

Donovanth1 · reddit · 2026-09-18

A Reddit user reports that Forge Neo refuses to load any manually selected ControlNet model — it only downloads and uses the presets its preprocessor requires, with no console errors. Enabling "[Anima] Enable Reference" in settings and restarting didn't help. The post links the ControlNet-ReFlatents-Anima model they're trying to use (which has little documentation). No workaround yet; a troubleshooting record for others hitting the same issue.

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