Feedback

[rubenwardy]

I've been playing around with this editor. Thanks for this!

Here is some feedback.

Main Criticism

• Doesn't appear to be any way to copy/move nodes and subtrees. This should be possible using both standard keyboard shortcuts and mouse.
• No way to change root node type
• Disallow loading owl-bt.json file as a tree. I got confused between projects and trees
• The way file loading and stuff was confusing to begin with - maybe only require users to open owlbt with a project dir, and allow creating tree files from within the web UI
• Update font awesome, the first icon I found - running wasn't available in this editor

Minor suggestions

• Nodes with no description don't align properly

  

• Split programmatic name and readable (ie: shown) labels for nodes. Ability to comment / give custom labels.

• Logically, shouldn't decorators be above a node because they run before the node? They are like this in unreal

  

• Minor thing - when adding new nodes, maybe move camera with/relative to the parent to avoid this:

  

  Ie: if the parent node moves 10 pixels, move the camera 10 pixels

The good stuff

• It looks and feels great
• owl-bt.json is a nice way to define nodes

[rubenwardy]

I've just discovered copy and paste, and shift-right and left

[rubenwardy]

Updated first post. Note - please don't take this as demanding! If I decide to use/adapt this tool, I'll probably end up contributing a lot of that stuff. I'd appreciate your feedback and whether you are still working on this (I see your forum topic on tigsource is still active as of Jan 2020)

[pruttned]

Hi, thanks for you feedback. although I did not make any changes to owl-bt recently, I'm actively using it for developing my game. So it is still alive.

• "No way to change root node type" - yeah I would like to add support for changing type of any node in the future.
• "The way file loading and stuff was confusing to begin with - maybe only require users to open owlbt with a project dir, and allow creating tree files from within the web UI" - yes this is also something that I would like to implement in the future.
• "Split programmatic name and readable (ie: shown) labels for nodes" - that's a good idea. I would go with the optional label/comment.
• "Logically, shouldn't decorators be above a node because they run before the node?" - I was thinking in the start to do it as in Unreal, but in my personal opinion, it looked horrible. Therefore I decided to do it like this.

Currently I don't have much free time to work actively on owl-bt, but I would gladly accept any PRs.

Could you pls separate this issue into multiple issues, each with a single item? It will be easier to track individual items that way - so I'm closing this one issue for now. Thx