[Bf-cycles] Unique socket names?

[Gottfried Hofmann]

How about Shader0 and Shader1? Since the Fac input is between 0 and 1 
and 0 means 100% top and 1 is 100% bottom. I always wondered why it's 
"Color1" and Color2" for the color mix node...

Gottfried

On 08/08/2013 09:18 PM, Brecht Van Lommel wrote:
> Ok, I'm not opposed to changing it to Shader1 and Shader2. Do you want
> to write the version patching or should I do it?
>
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> IMHO breaking scripts isn't much an issue for this - any script that
>> relies on lookups on non-unique items is asking for problems.
>>
>> UI - subjective but I don't see it as an issue personally,
>> maybe some hidden delimiter could be used "Shader.1", and the UI can
>> display as 'Shader' for eg.
>>
>> Version patching however is a pain, this is a reason against I
>> suppose... but an annoying one since this does really make it crappy
>> to link up nodes from python :S
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Brecht Van Lommel
>> <brechtvanlommel at pandora.be> wrote:
>>> I like it better in the UI without the 1/2 but can see it's not great
>>> for scripting. Changing this will need a version patch and may break
>>> existing scripts and forward compatibility, so I'm not sure if it's
>>> important enough to change now?
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi, recently I've been using python to create a node-tree, and ran
>>>> into a limit with socket names.
>>>>
>>>> The 'Mix' and 'Add' shader nodes have both sockets named 'Shader',
>>>> this means Python can't usefully reference them by name,
>>>> instead you need to reference them by index which is more fragile
>>>> since it may break the script if sockets change order.
>>>>
>>>> Is there any problem with naming these 'Shader1', 'Shader2' ? --- this
>>>> matches Color Mix which is called 'Color1', 'Color2'.
>>>>
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