Feature Request: Can we get Blueprint wire knots?

General Feedback & Requests
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The biggest issue I’m facing with blueprints is the wires. It’s fine when you have just a few nodes, but once you have more than a few, it can become a (hay)wire nightmare. Especially when dealing with local variables as you can only have one node, so all accessing has to go to one single node.

So I thought it’d be cool if you could create knots on wires to rearrange and connect wires without going all the way back to the node.

To convey my idea, I made this small animation: Unreal Engine 4 - Feature Request - Blueprint wire knots - YouTube

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Just so you know, your video’s marked as private, so we can’t see it.

Sounds like a good idea though.

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It was still processing. It should be public now.

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Yup, all good. Looks like a cool idea, though I’m not sure how simple it’d be to implement.

Nice animation too :slight_smile:

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+1 from me :slight_smile:

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Post it on forums too with the poll, i think this concept might get more attention there

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+1 from me as well!
reminds me of the good old lbp days. made everything much overseeable :slight_smile:

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Ok i did that for you :stuck_out_tongue:

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Noland did a first version of it, it will be available for 4.3 :smiley:

[Feature request]Knots in blueprint linking and possibly other graphs too - Feedback & Requests - Epic Developer Community Forums

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Blender uses this in their node setup and it works wonderfully. Optionally, we can also set the knots to have hard edges vs vector edges which also goes a long ways towards cleaning up certain nodes.