(SOLVED) Question about integer1 (dropdown) parameter in Substance Designer

Obscura

Hello. I'm trying to make a dropdown list parameter, very much like an enumeration, and the only way I have found to get it working, is a bunch of branches. Is this how people normally do it?



As a bit of explanation, user selects the item from the dropdown, and it switches between different colors.

 I also have a second question, unrelated to this. Is there a way to convert an integer to a string?

And a third one . From what I see, text font cannot be exposed by default, and if you want to do it, you would need some switches to switch between different text nodes. Is this correct? 

Zack Maxwell

For something like that, normally you'd just use a multi switch node and plug in the various color nodes inside the normal graph.

Obscura

Zack Maxwell said:

For something like that, normally you'd just use a multi switch node and plug in the various color nodes inside the normal graph.

Thank you very much, this indeed worked. Didn't know about the multi switch node before. This also answers my question about the font thing.

Obscura

Little update, the multi switch kinda works for selecting font too but I need a bunch of text nodes. Thanks again, I think this was exactly what I was looking for.

poopipe

Your best bet for something you need to be very precise is to emulate the supplied reflectance node which isn't far off what you're doing there.
For anything that isn't maths based then multi switch at the graph level is a lot easier

WRT strings.  Any real support was basically missing last time I checked - I'm not sure whether it's been extended for 2018 though 

oblomov

Support for dynamic fonts is not available yet.