Sunday, January 5, 2014
With the completion of the pointer editing node today (including abstract base classes), the data editor is once again in working order, this time more elegant than ever since it's all implemented with the nodal UI!! The other major task du jour was fixing that blasted UI bug that was causing all of the nodes to jump to the upper-left corner of the screen for a moment when closing the UI (did anyone catch that in the update video? ). Well, I got it! Thankfully. That one was really annoying me
I spent a while thinking about the difference between "informational" and "functional" nodes today. In most UIs there is a distinction between input and output - something that displays information versus something that takes it in. I keep thinking that there must be some elegant way to separate these in the nodal interface - it feels a bit messy to have the "new" and "delete" action nodes sitting next to the informational nodes within the pointer type viewer, for example. I feel like there should be some difference - maybe you have to pull up an action menu if you want to see the node's inputs. Maybe the input nodes are in a different location, lining the top or bottom of the screen. I'm not sure what the right solution is yet, so now I'll just leave them in the mix with the other nodes, but it does bother me a little.
So far, January is on track to be a big month If I can keep up the pace (and I will!), 2014 may just be the year I'm hoping it'll be.
The bulk of tomorrow's schedule is finishing the new local fog technique...but with SMAA integration and "working" research both due in two days, I've got my work cut out for me, as always
PS ~ Another interesting tidbit: I played around with square / rounded square nodes today rather than circular. Kind of an interesting effect..not sure which shape I prefer yet
PPS ~ Rather behind on weekly summaries again..who would have thought
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Mon Jan 06, 2014 7:32 am
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Week of January 5, 2014
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.” ~ Henry Ford