[Twitch] 4.6 Roadmap - Oct. 23, 2014

[BinarySword (Benjamin D. Smith)]

@benjamin.smith;168096

– QUESTION –
Whatever happened to the plan to share snippets of and/or full Blueprints via multi-select than the engine generates a share-link and puts it into the (Epic) Cloud?

@;168128

Rather than put things on the cloud, it would be nice if when you crtl+c it saves the text necessary to generate that blueprint to the os clipboard. then you could copy it into a broswer/chat/email or save a text file somewhere. Then someone else can copy the text and past it into the eventgraph and be turned into nodes.

is how nuke ( vfx compositing software) works and is incredibly useful for sharing graphs.

Other things I would like to know are

• the future of paper 2d
• how is forward rendering for pixel depth sorting for translucent materials coming?
• c++/gameplay framework docs
• more compiling time speed increases please!

@;168310

Hi ! You should already be able to do - if you select some nodes and copy them, then open a text editor and paste, you will get the text representation of those nodes for easy sharing.

To expand on my question further,
I was more referring to what was briefly discussed in the past by Epic Games staff via the forums and early Twitch streams regarding an easy way to distribute and visualize Blueprint snippets both internally and externally through the forums among other places the likes of a service similar to say gyazo.com

As mentioned there would always remain the option to share your full Blueprints of snippets there of through other means for those who have security concerns and/or are paranoid with storing data on the Cloud.

If you wanted to go one step further,
You could harness some of the HTML5 features and allow not only the rendering of Blueprints but a basic animated visual representation of a Blueprints nodes firing off, timers counting down, etc. So that you could get a better understanding for the flow of said Blueprint at a glance ( would be a great addition for those out of the office).

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**-- Further Suggestions –
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I started I thread awhile back discussing the now implemented Blueprint Reroute Node and I thought I would voice some suggestions for improvement for said .

Since pictures are worth a thousand words, I guess GIF’s are ten thousand are just some of the shortcuts Blender has for their node editor

Lazy Connect

http://wiki.blender.org/uploads/3/38/Nw_lazy_connect.gif

http://wiki.blender.org/uploads/f/fa/Nw_lazy_menu_connect.gif

Lazy Mix

http://wiki.blender.org/uploads/9/90/Nw_lazy_mix.gif

Merge

http://wiki.blender.org/uploads/f/f3/Nw_merge_selected.gif

Batch change blend type / math operation

http://wiki.blender.org/uploads/d/d8/Nw_batch_change_mode.gif

Change Mix Factor

http://wiki.blender.org/uploads/e/e3/Nw_change_mix_factor.gif

Swap Links

http://wiki.blender.org/uploads/e/e9/Nw_swap_outputs.gif

Switch Node Type

http://wiki.blender.org/uploads/d/d0/Switch_type.gif

Copy Settings

http://wiki.blender.org/uploads/b/b6/Nw_copy_settings.gif

Add Reroutes to Outputs

http://wiki.blender.org/uploads/b/bb/Nw_add_reroutes.gif

Link Active to Selected

http://wiki.blender.org/uploads/f/f4/Nw_link_active_to_selected.gif

Detach Outputs*
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http://wiki.blender.org/uploads/e/e2/Nw_detach_outputs.gif

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GIF source: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/Nodes/Nodes_Efficiency_Tools

Original post:** Additional Blueprint & Material node functionality suggestions [general use] - C++ - Epic Developer Community Forums

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EDIT: For those who are interested, I have reposted question in the following thread [Feature request]Knots in blueprint linking and possibly other graphs too - Feedback & Requests - Epic Developer Community Forums for further in-depth discussion.