diff --git a/invokeai/app/invocations/latent.py b/invokeai/app/invocations/latent.py
index 11ea7134bb..339f1333d8 100644
--- a/invokeai/app/invocations/latent.py
+++ b/invokeai/app/invocations/latent.py
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ import einops
 from pydantic import BaseModel, Field, validator
 import torch
 
+from diffusers.pipelines.stable_diffusion.pipeline_stable_diffusion_controlnet import MultiControlNetModel
+
 from invokeai.app.invocations.util.choose_model import choose_model
 from invokeai.app.models.image import ImageCategory
 from invokeai.app.util.misc import SEED_MAX, get_random_seed
@@ -28,7 +30,7 @@ from .compel import ConditioningField
 from ...backend.stable_diffusion import PipelineIntermediateState
 from diffusers.schedulers import SchedulerMixin as Scheduler
 import diffusers
-from diffusers import DiffusionPipeline
+from diffusers import DiffusionPipeline, ControlNetModel
 
 
 class LatentsField(BaseModel):
@@ -84,13 +86,13 @@ SAMPLER_NAME_VALUES = Literal[
 
 def get_scheduler(scheduler_name:str, model: StableDiffusionGeneratorPipeline)->Scheduler:
     scheduler_class, scheduler_extra_config = SCHEDULER_MAP.get(scheduler_name, SCHEDULER_MAP['ddim'])
-    
+
     scheduler_config = model.scheduler.config
     if "_backup" in scheduler_config:
         scheduler_config = scheduler_config["_backup"]
     scheduler_config = {**scheduler_config, **scheduler_extra_config, "_backup": scheduler_config}
     scheduler = scheduler_class.from_config(scheduler_config)
-    
+
     # hack copied over from generate.py
     if not hasattr(scheduler, 'uses_inpainting_model'):
         scheduler.uses_inpainting_model = lambda: False
@@ -171,6 +173,9 @@ class TextToLatentsInvocation(BaseInvocation):
     model:       str = Field(default="", description="The model to use (currently ignored)")
     # seamless:   bool = Field(default=False, description="Whether or not to generate an image that can tile without seams", )
     # seamless_axes: str = Field(default="", description="The axes to tile the image on, 'x' and/or 'y'")
+    progress_images: bool = Field(default=False, description="Whether or not to produce progress images during generation",  )
+    control_model: Optional[str] = Field(default=None, description="The control model to use")
+    control_image: Optional[ImageField] = Field(default=None, description="The processed control image")
     # fmt: on
 
     # Schema customisation
@@ -252,6 +257,63 @@ class TextToLatentsInvocation(BaseInvocation):
         model = self.get_model(context.services.model_manager)
         conditioning_data = self.get_conditioning_data(context, model)
 
+        # loading controlnet model
+        if (self.control_model is None or self.control_model==''):
+            control_model = None
+        else:
+            # FIXME: change this to dropdown menu?
+            # FIXME: generalize so don't have to hardcode torch_dtype and device
+            control_model = ControlNetModel.from_pretrained(self.control_model,
+                                                            torch_dtype=torch.float16).to("cuda")
+        model.control_model = control_model
+
+        # loading controlnet image (currently requires pre-processed image)
+        control_image = (
+            None if self.control_image is None
+            else context.services.images.get(
+                self.control_image.image_type, self.control_image.image_name
+            )
+        )
+
+        # copied from old backend/txt2img.py
+        # FIXME: still need to test with different widths, heights, devices, dtypes
+        #        and add in batch_size, num_images_per_prompt?
+        if control_image is not None:
+            if isinstance(control_model, ControlNetModel):
+                control_image = model.prepare_control_image(
+                    image=control_image,
+                    # do_classifier_free_guidance=do_classifier_free_guidance,
+                    do_classifier_free_guidance=True,
+                    # width=width,
+                    # height=height,
+                    width=512,
+                    height=512,
+                    # batch_size=batch_size * num_images_per_prompt,
+                    # num_images_per_prompt=num_images_per_prompt,
+                    device=control_model.device,
+                    dtype=control_model.dtype,
+                )
+            elif isinstance(control_model, MultiControlNetModel):
+                images = []
+                for image_ in control_image:
+                    image_ = model.prepare_control_image(
+                        image=image_,
+                        # do_classifier_free_guidance=do_classifier_free_guidance,
+                        do_classifier_free_guidance=True,
+                        # width=width,
+                        # height=height,
+                        width=512,
+                        height=512,
+                        # batch_size=batch_size * num_images_per_prompt,
+                        # num_images_per_prompt=num_images_per_prompt,
+                        device=control_model.device,
+                        dtype=control_model.dtype,
+                    )
+                    images.append(image_)
+                control_image = images
+
+
+
         # TODO: Verify the noise is the right size
 
         result_latents, result_attention_map_saver = model.latents_from_embeddings(
@@ -259,7 +321,8 @@ class TextToLatentsInvocation(BaseInvocation):
             noise=noise,
             num_inference_steps=self.steps,
             conditioning_data=conditioning_data,
-            callback=step_callback
+            callback=step_callback,
+            control_image=control_image,
         )
 
         # https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/memory-usage-by-later-pipeline-stages/23699
@@ -490,4 +553,4 @@ class ImageToLatentsInvocation(BaseInvocation):
         name = f"{context.graph_execution_state_id}__{self.id}"
         context.services.latents.save(name, latents)
         return build_latents_output(latents_name=name, latents=latents)
-        
+