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Feedback Just sharing opinion on Bolt

Discussion in 'Visual Scripting' started by adamstepinski, Mar 17, 2022.

  1. adamstepinski

    adamstepinski

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    I forgot to write a few things in the survey, I would like to share my opinion:
    • Make Embed the default option when creating a Flow Machine
    • Bolt's main point is that it will be compared to UE's blueprint. Therefore the most important thing is to make it look beautiful
    • -> Make "search new method" background a little darker in dark mode
    • -> Make node's big icons way smaller, and without colors
    • -> Add gradient to nodes, add shadows behind nodes, make icons for green flow arrows smaller
    • -> Make node background and title colors darker in dark mode
    • -> Generally make colors (like green background of Start node) less saturated
    • -> Make graphs' background grid darker a little
    • Rename "Flow Machine" -> "Visual Script," "State Machine" ->"Visual State Machine Script"
    • if Flow Machine is added to GO, it should contain Variables. Variables shouldn't be separate component
    • Remove "Title" and "Summary" of a Flow Machine
    • Unity's system of setting variables in public inspectors is so simple that Bolt development should be lower priority
    • Add shortcut for creating a group from selected nodes, I would prefer it to be key "C" like in UE
    • Integrate Bolt documentation with Unity's documentation e.g. https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3.Dot.html would have info about Bolt's Vector3 dot node
    • Add attribute to single public method to be usable in Bolt (I know about [IncludeInSettings(true)] but it's for a class).
    • -> Also, there should be documentation on integrating scripts with Bolt. I found [IncludeInSettings] on forum-there should be a tutorial page instead (I found a tutorial, but it was about [RenameFrom])
    • If possible, add new public methods into Bolt after script compilation
    Context: I'm a programmer, and I use Bolt rarely
     
  2. PanthenEye

    PanthenEye

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