RealityStop / Bolt.Addons.Community

A community-driven project for extending Unity Bolt
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Consider having two themes, one with less information, like here . . . #45

Closed charlesmlamb closed 2 years ago

charlesmlamb commented 2 years ago

Really like Bolt, want to use it, to learn C#, but there's simply a bunch of information, that I don't need, as a fairly good coder, not looking to replace current theme, but I'd like an alternative, like this . . .

2021-10-09 1450

Also, the weird orbs, on the side, of the nodes, doesn't really add any useful information, my hope is we can get a more ' compressed ' theme, like shader graph, at least have it, as a customization option . . . The current theme is really good, but I don't need the icons, in the boxes, for instance, just takes up space, for me, I just need a more simple, compressed version, as, an alternative, possibly, just as a theme, in some global setting, or so . . .

2021-09-23 0901

I hope you'll look into making a more sleak UI, to go alongside the current one, also I don't need the animations, while it is running, sort-of, the animated logic lines, it prob. just takes processing power, I don't know if this is possible, but having two options, would help span range, of almost not visual coders, to very visual coders, thanks . . . .

The current theme is actually really good, esp. for beginners, but as someone that has used visual script, for almost two years, it sort-of becomes redundant, hope you might make two themes, or so, or a setting, to not show icons, for instance, in the boxes, to save space, so on . . :OO

But, at same time the current one, is by now, sort-of a classic, I hope we can just get some options, to customize, the look of the graph, esp. towards simplicity, but one could add even more, on a theme say slider, or so . . . Thx . . .

2021-10-09 1456

I think many users, really like the current theme, I've been thinking, a big group of people, that might get more into game - dev, could be girls, if they're not the most logical thinkers, having a less logical code system, I think will allow many more people to use the engine, so I think there needs to be themes, also, the current one is a master-piece, anyway, please just consider it, if anything, at all, can be done <3 . .

charlesmlamb commented 2 years ago

For me, reducing size of boxes, means I can have more on screen, so, there can be more code, and, in my opinion, useless information, doesn't add much to me, over time, makes me annoyed, I have to look, at it, since, it's well, pointless . . .

So, I'm hoping there might be some theme options, or ways to customize look, of the graphs, to appeal to more users, expand the one that's already there, to get ' everybody ', thanks . . .

Imo, one could consider the ENTIRE use-base, for visual script, and make a range, from one possible extreme, to other, from very visual, to sort-of almost, a minimum, just, the info, or so . . . Hope the current theme will stay, bec. I can see it appealing to many users, it's actually quite nice, sort-of, well, a classic . . . .

For instance, to make it even more visual, you could make the boxes italic, or skewed, a bit, for no reason . . . That'd be making a MORE visual theme, and that would appeal to some, prob. quite a few, in the ENTIRE demographic, my point is, to have some customization options, so everyone, in entire range of visual script community, has a nice experience . . .

Or, you could make the lines, sort-of fade, in an animated way, sort of, fade to 80 % opacity, then back to 100 %, that'd add more useless information, and make some people, in the entire visual script demographic also happy, that's all . . . I think the range should be from just practical, to even more visual, ' graphicy ', or so, than now, that'd be the ENTIRE demographic, for visual script <3 . . !

MasterSubby commented 2 years ago

I'm sorry but these are better sent to Unity themselves. Maybe try posting all this into the Visual Scripting forum of theirs? Unfortunately pretty much everything you listed here is impossible as just an extender, and needs direct source changes. It's not possible to do stuff to every node but our own, and not possible to edit already existent behavior of the graph.

Thank you for taking the time to do such an extensive write up. Hope you'll share with Unity!