TaleSpire Dev Log 491

Hey all,

Decent progress yesterday .

• Fixed cases where curves connecting nodes were laid out incorrectly during certain inputs
• Dedicated types for various internal IDs
• Added the ability to drag/drop resources from the Unity project directly into the canvas.
• Improved debugger integration
• Users can now replace connections without removing the old ones first.
• Added a way to specify default values for connectors
• Got user-defined functions to compile correctly when used in other effects.

The drag/drop one is simple but it’s nice to be able to drop a texture into the graph and get a texture node immediately. The same is true when dropping in a user-defined function asset.

The connection replacement, too, is a nice quality-of-life improvement. Previously, connectors could be turned into value slots with a right-click action. However, based on feedback, we’ve moved to showing the value slot whenever a connection is not made. It doesn’t always make sense to have a slot though, for instance, you wouldn’t want to type a texture!

Today I’m going to focus on improving resource handling. In the graph, resource-nodes are nodes where the value comes from the CPU, rather than being computed on the GPU.

Seeya you then.

Disclaimer: This DevLog is from the perspective of one developer. So it doesn’t reflect everything going on with the team