Shader Editor Switches: Easily swap between up to 10 colors, vectors, values, or shaders!

📦 Shader Switch Essentials

Description:

A clean, modular utility node pack for Blender's Shader Editor, designed to streamline dynamic material workflows. This pack includes four intuitive node groups:

• Value Selector – Swap between float or integer values like roughness, emission strength, alpha, and more.
• Color Selector – Switch between color values, texture nodes, image-based inputs, and more.
• Vector Selector – Dynamically choose vectors such as texture coordinates, normals, or direction vectors.
• BSDF Selector – Swap between entire shader setups (e.g., different materials or shading models) using a single index input.

Each node uses a clamped index (0–9) to ensure stable, predictable results. These switches are particularly powerful when used with Geometry Nodes menus. You can use a Menu Switch node in integer mode, capture the result with a Capture Named Attribute, and pass that attribute into your shader tree—allowing for seamless control of materials via Geometry Nodes-driven UI elements.

They’re easy to drop into your workflow with zero setup headaches—and can save you hours of repetitive logic building for each new material system.

Perfect for procedural assets, stylized materials, interactive variations, or logic-based shader systems.

⚙️ Installation

How to Install:

1. Download the .blend file or node group bundle.
2. Locate your Blender User Asset Library folder:
   • You can find or set this path in Edit > Preferences > File Paths > Asset Libraries.
3. Drop the downloaded file into that folder.
4. In Blender, either restart the application or refresh the asset library.
5. The nodes will now appear in your Shader Editor Add Menu under the "Unassigned" category unless you assign your own.

Once added, you can drag and drop them into any shader node tree and begin wiring up indexed-driven material switches with ease.