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    Switch - Arnold for Maya

    Further Reading
    See Utility Shaders in the Arnold User Guide for the full shader documentation.

    Evaluate and return input index as selected by the index parameter, ranging from 1 to 20. The non-selected inputs will not be evaluated.

    Switch shader used to look dev different noise shader attributes

    Parent page: Utility Shaders

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