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I think that's the right option. There are three there. With Connections will duplicate the shader and maintain the connections to the original source ramps. Shader Network should dup all nodes in the network, and "Without" only dups the shader.
I tend to agree with the above though. It's well worth learning to use the utility nodes. They save on resources, and keep the scene much more structured. FOr instance: Let's say you had a few objects that needed the same specular effects AND different colors. Duping the shading network will do just that, until you decide to tweak the specular and suddenly you have to tweak THREE shaders. With a triple switch you adjust the shader's spec, drop a tri-switch into color, and drop different ramps into the switch, along with different geo. Later when you want to adjust the spec, you only have one node to adjust. You can see the benefit as your scenes get more complicated and you're changing things on the fly.
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Is that possible ?
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But I'm not sure I was clear enough. I want to use the triple switch node on the same object, with the same material, but with different colors on different components of this object.
I tried some dirty method by first assigning another material to some faces and then in the node editor moving the right connections from one shading group to another and so on, so that the "object group" outputs of the objectShape go to the right "In Shape" inputs of the Triple switch, but as soon as I disconnect the "Dag set members" of the newly made shading group, the vertex group or whatever it is that defines the selected faces seem to be deleted.
Wow, that was NOT very clear, but anyway if you know how to do it can you explain it ?
Because googling "triple switch node on single object" does not return any good result.
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When using a switch, the bump doesn't render in viewport 2.0, and doesn't always render in Maya software and mental Ray. It's very random.
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