Keep triplanars in sync

[pechart]

Hi!
Thanks a lot for the addition of the triplanar node! It really helps in a lot of situations.

One question, though:
I often pull my maps for glossiness, reflection color, diffuse, bump etc. from a single bitmap input texture. I do some color corrections with the texture, pipe it through a vrayTriplanar and into the vrayMaterial. Now it happens that I have to come up with 5 or 6 triplanar nodes that need to be identical, because the textures need to stay in correlation, of course.
When I change an attr on one triplanar node I have to change it on all nodes connected to that shader. Do you think it would be possible to automate this?
First idea: Maybe integrate some sort of "triplanar ID mode", so that the user can assign an ID to a triplanar node that then acts as a "master" and just turn the other triplanar nodes into "slaves" that pull their settings from the master by an assigned ID.
Another idea: add a bunch (like ten) of additional vector inputs and outputs to the triplanar node. Those just need to inherit the settings from the main texture input.

What do you think?

[Morbid Angel]

you can just connect attributes from one to all of the other ones and it will drive them - why not?

[pechart]

Just because I have to do it every time. But maybe I just do that with a simple script.

[Morbid Angel]

so you setup one triplanar with connections, then duplicate - with connections to network, it will preserve those connections...

you can also script that.

[pechart]

Just if somebody is interested in this. Select your slave nodes first, then the master node and execute this script (I made a shelf button):

### Connect vray triplanar nodes ###
### Select the slave nodes first, the master node last and execute the script ###

import pymel.core as pm

mySel = pm.ls(orderedSelection=True)

myMaster = mySel[-1]
print 'Master: ' +myMaster.name()

mySlaves = []
for each in mySel[:-1]:
    if each.type() == 'VRayTriplanar':
        mySlaves.append(each)
        print 'Slave: ' +each.name()
        myMaster.scale >> each.scale
        myMaster.blend >> each.blend
        myMaster.frameOffset >> each.frameOffset
        myMaster.texRotation >> each.texRotation
        myMaster.rndMode >> each.rndMode
        myMaster.rndTexOffset >> each.rndTexOffset
        myMaster.rndTexRotation >> each.rndTexRotation
        myMaster.rndAxis >> each.rndAxis
        myMaster.rndFrameRotation >> each.rndFrameRotation
        myMaster.refSpace >> each.refSpace
        myMaster.nodeRefTransform >> each.nodeRefTransform
        myMaster.uCoord >> each.uCoord
        myMaster.vCoord >> each.vCoord

### END ###

[t.petrov]

Have you considered using a single triplanar texture and connect the remap nodes after it (to the outputs), not before?