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"switch colors in MixRGB node" hotkey/button

I do, more often than I want to confess, need to switch the colors in otherwise color-input-unconnected MixRGB nodes because I got the factor input exactly the opposite way around from what I was thinking it would be when I set the colors up. Yes, I know there is an option to switch inputs when you connect colors to the node but that's two more nodes I don't necessarily need in my shader spaghetti, right?

Other 3d DCC apps offer a button or hotkey you can click or press to switch the colors, so maybe I'm not the only one feeling this could be a useful addition? Code-wise, the amount of work to be invested should be minimal but if nobody but me ever wanted this, maybe it is just too small of a niche wish. It is, after all, not important but rather a "nice-to-have" addition to the MixRGB node :)

Anyone else for easy color switching? :D

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shadingandlighting
20 Apr 2020

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bestelix

What I'd like is to have expanded the current drag and drop for color slots by using a modifier key for switch instead of copying over. Even nicer to work between nodes.

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Vyach

Agree. Switching sockets aren`t always handy.

frederico4d

Yes this would be cool! Nore wranglers does that with Alt+S for connected sockets only, but would be cool it it worked with mix nodes and just switch the colors when no node is connected.