🕷️ Spider Color Space Switch - Srgb to Aces

Smart switching between ACES and sRGB inside Blender — with automatic save and safe relaunch.

🎯 Description

Spider Color Space Switch is the ultimate add-on for VFX professionals, colorists, generalists, and post-production artists working in color-managed pipelines. It makes switching between ACES and sRGB in Blender effortless, reliable, and fully automated.

Your color space choice is saved directly inside the .blend file, ensuring session persistence and color consistency. When opening a project that was saved in a different mode than your current session, the add-on will automatically relaunch Blender with the correct OCIO environment, avoiding color mismatches and production errors.

🧠 Key Features

✅ One-click switching between ACES and sRGB
✅ Per-project persistence: stores the color mode inside the .blend file
✅ Auto-relaunch when opening a file with a different color mode
✅ Clean and informative UI panel in the N-Panel
✅ Compatible with Blender 4.5+
✅ Validates the config.ocio path to prevent relaunch errors
✅ Smart timer system waits for file save before relaunching (if file hasn’t been saved yet)
✅ Optional branded footer for studio signature or support info

📂 Where to find it in Blender

View3D > Sidebar > Spider Color Space Switch

🛠️ Requirements

• Blender 4.5 or newer

• A valid config.ocio file path for ACES (set in the add-on preferences)

  Link Download OCIO config files:
  GitHub - colour-science/OpenColorIO-Configs: Color Configurations for OpenColorIO

🧩 Perfect for...

• Pipelines using ACEScg and EXR linear workflow

• Artists switching between sRGB and ACES projects frequently

• Freelancers working across different color specs

• Studios that demand automated color consistency in all projects

💡 Why Spider Color Space Switch?

Managing OCIO color environments manually is error-prone and time-consuming. With this add-on, you get:

• 🎨 Reliable color management

• 💾 Smart save & relaunch logic

• ⚡ Speed and automation in every project

It’s an essential tool for professionals who want to work fast without compromising color integrity.