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Node Switcher

Available on Superhive (ex: Blendermarket)

Overview

Blender addon for generating node networks to switch and/or blend between various datatypes.

Usage

Create Switcher for ID Map

  1. Select an image node containing the id map to be switched.
  2. Open the context menu (default: Right Click) and select "ID Switcher for Selected".

See Parameter Descriptions for per option explanation

Adding a Switcher From Selected

Switcher from Selected 1. Select the nodes whose sockets you want to switch between. 2. Right click in an empty space and select "New Switcher For Selected Nodes". 3. In the operator pop-up, select the socket type to use for switching and a switching mode.

Adding a New Switcher

New Switcher

  1. Switcher node creation is available under the add nodes menu (Shift + A).
  2. Selection will trigger a pop-up on which you can can select the number of input sockets and the type of switch to create.

Adding Bonus Nodes

All new nodes can be found in the add nodes menu under 'Converter'

Switching Types

Hard Switching Hard value based switching for arbitrary uniform socket types.

Soft Switching Blended value based switching for arbitrary uniform socket types.

Weighted Average Switch Create a node network that calculates a weighted overage of the inputs. Not compatible with shader socket types.

Switching based on the colors of an input with auto detection for image input.

Parameter Descriptions

New ID Switch

Performance

High Value Resolution and Low Sample intervals rarely improve color detection but will greatly increase node creation time.

Parameter Description
Value Resolution The color depth to use for sampling.
Sample Interval The spatial interval to use for sampling. Eg. A sample of 4 means a 1024x1024 image will be processed as 256x256.
ID Limit The maximum number of IDs that will be output. Use a higher value than you need to account for noise, backgrounds, and padding.
Socket Type The socket types to be used for switch inputs.

ID Switch Node

Parameter Description
Result The switched result
Mask 0.. The keying results as individual masks
ID Map ID Map (or other color input) to key.
Tolerance Tolerance of the keying. Increase make the keying colors less strict
Gamma Gamma of each mask. The contrast of each internal masking operation.
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New Switch From Selected

Node
Socket Type Tolerance of the keying. Increase make the keying colors less strict
Switch Type Method of switching. See switching types section for more details.

Addon's Node Groups

Node Use
Value Lerp Linear interpolation of a value.
Vector Lerp Linear interpolation of a vector.
Switch Node Primary addon function, the different switch nodes,
RGB Key Color keyer node. Create a mask of the ID Map input using the Key color.
ID Switcher Color based switching and mask generation based on the colors of an input.