Zylann
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1 year ago I was thinking of adding that fancy menu too, but it will be a bit of work. Looking at VisualShaderEditor, it's not even a known control in Godot, it is entirely incorporated to the shader editor. It will have to be remade. It uses a Tree within a scrollview within a popup window. It should also be noted that the voxel graph system doesn't have as many nodes (the way they are implemented is also quite different), but due to the function system, can have user-made ones.
I like how it's done in visual shader editor and in MaterialMaker for example.
Godot visual shader editor:
MaterialMaker
They have search box - that would be really nice to have, especially when new graph nodes will come
They don't use submenus. MM displays all items in a ItemList I guess, in visual shaders items are grouped (folded) in TreeItems.
MM also have a whole dock with available nodes, which are can be dragged&dropped from (this dock also has a search box); and visual shader
add nodeswindow uses Window node, you can position it and drag&drop multiple graph ndes as well. This saves extra RMB clicks then you add many graph nodesItems have icons. Icons could be useful to display the shape to be added. It would be also nice if a custom function would have an icon (optionally).
Items have descriptions. I think it would be fine if the description hint will be shown when hovering over the item. Godot uses a separate control for displaying descriptions, but it takes some place. On the other hand a tooltip can make it hard to see the items, especially if the tooltip has multiline text.
maybe more minor one: ability to drag&drop of custom functions from godot filesystem dock. Useful when you gonna add many functions, saves extra RMB clicks