connections in FSM

[chocolacode]

Hey Gavalakis,

First of all I would like to say that Behavior Trees connections and Flowcanvas Connections are perfect, they look smooth and never disappoint .

however I am working piece of my game design using FSM in Nodecanvas. The connections in FSM are really difficult to manage. I think the problem is that the nodes auto-reconnect themselves, at the top, bottom, left and right. While in BT and FC don’t.

Also the connections sometimes get behind the states. Sometimes I need to put the states really apart so they show. Can you add the possibility to drag the info box for the connections independently? so we can move alongside the connection

When I think I have my design perfect and add another state I need to spend lot of time reorganizing the states, so the connections and box infos are visible and make sense.

May I suggest that you make optional the behavior to FSM connections reconnecting ? or make that the user decides from what part of the state node the connection will go out and where it will go in? Ian just throwing ideas, I hope you can suggest something…

Once the FSMS start to grow is really difficult to maintain a nice and organized design.

Thanks!! 🙂

[Gavalakis]

Hey,

Back when I was designing the FSM interface, I’ve tried a lot of different things, including some of your suggestions here, but by nature FSM connections tent to become spaghetti if they are complex enough after a while.
Manually choosing or locking the direction of the connections one-by-one was tedious and the reason it never happened as well/
Your other suggestion though, about dragging the info box of the connection to adjust it’s curve, is a really nice one.
I will take a look at this suggestion and see if it comes up with any good results design wise. I think it most probably will though 🙂

Thanks!

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[chocolacode]

Hey there,

Thanks for your response!!

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