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Geometry Nodes: Dimmed dashed lines
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Authored by Dalai Felinto (dfelinto) on Oct 5 2021, 3:40 PM.

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Summary

This tweaks the dashed lines for the function flow so it doesn't ever go
full transparent. It is supposed to add less noise for complex
node-trees.

Based on suggestion from devtalk.


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rB Blender
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dimmed-dashed-lines (branched from master)
Build Status
Buildable 17571
Build 17571: arc lint + arc unit

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Dalai Felinto (dfelinto) requested review of this revision.Oct 5 2021, 3:40 PM
Dalai Felinto (dfelinto) created this revision.

Ah that's a nice idea! Definitely less shocking but still communicates the idea. +1

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Oct 5 2021, 3:48 PM

Great, this looks much less busy to me.

Tweaking the lines parameters

I asked around the studio and there seem to be no one solution that fits it all. For the record:

  • Simon and Pablo like the dimed dashed lines (though changing the data-flow line thickness to 1.0).
  • Ton and Andy like the dashed lines (and Andy would love the dashes to be equidistant).

I will set this on the side for now (and the patch as abandoned). It takes some energy to get those big UI decisions onwards, and I would rather use that energy to other aspects of the usability at the moment. (that said, anyone from the UI team is welcome to pick this topic up).

Think this is the best solution for the dashed lines. Since colors for Noodles will be used for the socked types and the dimmed lines remove a lot of "noise" from the "hard" dashed lines. We should go with that!