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  • Published 1 Jun 2024

Menus saved as named Attribute

I am really fascinated by the new switch menu function in gnodes 4.2, but at the moment that function is not as versitaile as it could be.

Proposal: Add Menu as an accepted Data Type for the "Strore named Attribute" node, and therefore also the named Attribute node. In my opinion that would help in many cases to structure group nodes.

I am not really familiar with how the nodes are processed internally, but I would guess a lot of the restrictions concerning the menus (i.e. having to use groups in case one wants to connect more than one node to a menu) stem from the menu being created by the menu switch node itself. Wouldn't it make more sense if the Menu was created in the Group input and the inputs of the switch menu node are created as soon as the node is connected to the menu output of the "group output" node? That way the problem of connecting two menu switch nodes with different menus to the same output socket wouldn't exist. menu_switch idea.png (Another advantage would be that the group input menu on the side panel is more used anyways, so one wouldn't have to change the sidepanel that often.)

P.S. I just created this account and this is my first post here, so I hope it's the right thread for proposals/opinions like that.

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Mathias-Kilcher
1 Jun 2024

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