[Pending Review] Circuit Visual Scripting

Circuit Visual Scripting

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This tool has been a long time in the making, original work on it started over four years ago. The goal is to create a complete visual scripting solution for Unity, that is well integrated into the Unity Editor and Player, but also allows quick creation of node graphs and handles many advanced code features and concepts for you.

Features

• Support for MonoBehaviour, NetworkBehaviour and State Machines.
  
• Support both for reusable documents and prefab specific documents.
  
• Run-time debugging with execution flow, breakpoints, step forward/back and value inspection.
  
• Generates optimized C# code, no run-time evaluation of graphs.
  
• Visual drag-and-drop integration with Unity (Prefabs, Assets, Animator Parameters, UNET, etc.).
  
• Powerful interface system that enables a scale-able approach to game development.
  
• Extendable to create your own project specific graph types.
  
• Advanced nodes that abstract away common operations.
• Smart and configurable node importer that takes it one step above simple reflection.
  
• Advanced "Photoshop-like" history for easy navigation.
• Comes with full source code, no DRM.

It of course has support for all usual copy, paste, duplicate, pan, zoom, etc. editor commands.

Compatibility

• Works on all Unity deployment targets.
  
• Works on Unity Personal, Plus and Pro.
  
• Themes specific for Light/Dark Unity editor skin.

Asset Store Info

• Will be available for sale shortly (hopefully one week).
• Initial price will be 30 USD during beta, final price point around ~60 USD
• You can join the current ongoing beta by sending an email to development@ff-games.com and request beta access. The beta is covered by an NDA.

Features In Development

• GOAP AI Document Type (Same type of system used in the "Fear" games.)
• Dialogue Tree Document Type.
• More advanced nodes for common game development tasks.
• Inheriting documents from C# types.

Screenshots

 

Seeing the vendor in action, how he has continuously devoted time and effort into perfecting Circuit Visual Scripting and proactively worked with feedback - small and big features - gives me a solid trust in any of his submissions to Asset Store. Seeing the time frame from a mere idea of this tool to actual asset store submission is worth the mention that this has a promising start. For those unfamiliar with visual scripting: it is a tool for visual development, acting as an abstract design layer for Rapid Application Development (RAD) as a practice - not the mumbo jumbo sales crap. It is also one of the features Unity does not ship even though it has been on the roadmap for a while. I had the wonderful opportunity to have hands-on experience with Circuit in its beta stage and I can recommend it to everyone - beginners, intermediate and experts. @fholm has done an awesome job on this masterpiece.

 

I was able to beta-test it, and i must say the developer is really active and devoted to improving it.
Apart from a few small usability quirks (well, it was beta), it's already very powerful and continually being enhanced.
It compiles to code not some intermediate custom stuff, so it's also pretty performant.
Definitely worth keeping an eye on it.

 

I had the pleasure to participate in beta tests of the Circuit. This asset is very functional. Working with it is really nice. Interface is easy to learn and quite intuitive. Creating new scripts is fast enough what definitely speeds up working on your projects.

Very important advantage is also developer - Fholm. He is very involved into his asset. Bug fixes and users' suggestions comes really fast. I'm sure he won't stop supporting this project any time soon. He's also very nice and helpful for new users.

I recommend Circuit for any developer seeking for some visual scripting experience.

Regards

 

Hey guys, thanks for all the nice feedback!

Here's a quick update to the look and feel of the nodes, been trying to add some icons to "special" nodes for control flow and other actions, and a light tint on some nodes.

 

Here's the asset store screenshot images for Circuit, showing some more features and this weekends updates.

 

Package is still pending review on the asset store, hopefully it will be done soon

 

Wow- this looks great! I will definitely pick it up- awesome that you're going to build GOAP into it

 

Thanks for the kind words!

Yes, I am working on a GOAP AI document type for it, which is a great way to build AI's, more information coming later

 

Your tool looks very interesting for a non-coder like me, mostly because of the C# output code.
I know it's also not an easy task to write detailed documentation and provide plenty of learning examples. Can you provide access to your docs before purchase? How about tutorials? I'm asking all this because without proper learning tools the Circuit's visual scripting power will not be accessible to guys like me.
Anyway, congrats for the big effort you made to bring this tool to life.Wish you good luck!

 

Hi!

Yes they documentation will be uploaded so it can be reviewed before purchase, still working on it so it will be up by the time the package goes live on the store.

I'm also working on a video tutorial of creating "full" game with Circuit.

 

That sounds cool!
I'm interested in a tower defense game, so it might really help.

 

Still pending unity review

 

Still not released ? Looks incredible.

 

Have had my eyes on this for a while. Quite excited

I have two questions though:
- How do you add new nodes? What does that menu look like? etc. Used several VS systems and many have been quite hard to work with since finding the right node took a while.
- Will there be a way to use the dark style with unity set to light theme? Love the look of the dark themed graph. Easier on the eyes

 

Looking forward to trying this- another asset creator had an asset in review for 3 weeks- they apparently emailed the asset store about it and their asset was available 24 hours later- might be worth a try as a few of us want to buy

 

No news here ?

 

The last thing i heard is that he's thinking about dropping it, because Unity hinted to develop its own system in the future and i can understand that this would mean having to give support for something that may not even have amortized the countless hours of development. But i don't know for sure. The folks at unity also didn't mention when they plan to start developing theirs though... it may aswell be one of these things they keep talking about but are only 'researching' for yet many years to come.

 

Maybe Unity is buying this ?

 

Is this still being reviewed? Was looking forward to buying/using it

 

Where is fholm ?

 

Sorry for the late reply here, but this is not getting released, sorry.

 

Why ?

 

Because I don't have the energy for support, etc... and it would be unethical to sell it knowing I don't really have the time/energy to provide proper support.

 

Ok, sad, this has really looked beautifull. Thank you for your answers.

 

Yeah, I'm a bit let down also, it does work super well and everything, just not sure I have it in me to do another big asset with a lot of users, I was building it because I thought it was a fun project with the goal of selling it on the asset store if it got a point where I was happy with it, and it has... I just don't have the energy needed for support, dealing with customers, etc. sorry

 

This after four years of development. And submitting it to Asset Store? Hmmm.

 

But all of the time we spent making those gradients perfect on slack! Think of the children! And puppies!

 

If it's that awesome, maybe either sell it to Unity or contract someone to deal with the service / support for a cut of the sales, while you fix bugs that are verified at the front line and pushed back to you.

 

It's not like it was years of constant development, just tinkering on it here and there when I had energy/time, etc.

lol

Possibly, but right now it's not an option for me

 

A GOAP visual style was the selling point for me. Did you get to implement it or you were just starting ? That could be a really cool asset