Julian Field, AKA Expresso Mechanic shows how you would go about using the Xpresso Switch Node in Cinema 4D. The Node can be a bit mysterious, because it doesn’t have any inputs, and only has a single output. So how do you go about using the Switch Node?

how to go about using the xpresso Switch node.

The Xpresso Switch node is probably the only node in C4D that required you to use it along with a keyframe. The keyframe can be used to switch the node on and off.

Understanding this, you can easily hook the Xpresso Switch node into some conditional nodes and have the switch drive those conditions. A while back, Orestis Konstantinidis had an introductory look into using If/Else statements.

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