docs/webui_extension.md

Run SadTalker as a Stable Diffusion WebUI Extension.

1. Installing the lastest version of stable-diffusion-webui and install the sadtalker via extension.

   

2. Download the checkpoints manually, for Linux and Mac:

   
   cd SOMEWHERE_YOU_LIKE
   
   bash <(wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winfredy/SadTalker/main/scripts/download_models.sh)
   

   For windows, you can download all the checkpoints from google drive or 百度云盘 提取码: sadt.

3.1. options 1: put the checkpoint in stable-diffusion-webui/models/SadTalker or stable-diffusion-webui/extensions/SadTalker/checkpoints/, the checkpoints will be detected automatically.

3.2. Options 2: Set the path of SADTALKTER_CHECKPOINTS in webui_user.sh(linux) or webui_user.bat(windows) by:

> only works if you are directly starting webui from `webui_user.sh` or `webui_user.bat`.

```bash
# windows (webui_user.bat)
set SADTALKER_CHECKPOINTS=D:\SadTalker\checkpoints

# linux (webui_user.sh)
export SADTALKER_CHECKPOINTS=/path/to/SadTalker/checkpoints
```

4. Then, starting the webui via webui.sh or webui_user.sh(linux) or webui_user.bat(windows) or any other methods, the SadTalker can be used in stable-diffusion-webui directly.

   

Questsions

1. if you are running on CPU, you need to specific --disable-safe-unpickle in webui_user.sh or webui_user.bat.

   # windows (webui_user.bat)
   set COMMANDLINE_ARGS="--disable-safe-unpickle"
   
   # linux (webui_user.sh)
   export COMMANDLINE_ARGS="--disable-safe-unpickle"
   

(Some important discussion if you are unable to use full mode).