Pilou & Brian,
I think I can shed some light on the the case of the disappearing OUT label on "star" node.
You may recall that node labels and associated dots were formally greyed out until a wire was attached. I proposed to Max that it would be better I/O labels to be permanently coloured so as to indicate the intended wiring. I further proposed that in doing so, that labelling the output OUT seems redundant.
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=7713.830
To drive home this point I did a minor alteration to the code of a couple of nodes. (simply removing the OUT label). I was not my intention to infect others with these mutations; I had just forgotten that I'd done it. I do think though, that it is a testament to the lack of labelling necessity that it has taken till now for this issue to arise.
An advantage of removing unnecessary labelling is that it reduces the width of the node. This may sound like a trivial consideration, but when you have a node circuit with dozens of nodes, it can spread to multiple screen widths necessitating a lot of horizontal panning. Nonessential node width exacerbates this problem.
Not only can the node be reduced in width, but also input labels may be increased without increasing width, to better communicate the required input. The letter "C" for count, for example on "interp" & "random" nodes (& maybe others) could be fully labelled. See attached image below.
I have reinstated the labels to "point" & "star" nodes (see image below), posted revised NodeEditor folder to:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=9358.1
I would be interested to know what others thought about the need of output labelling.
I think the "knob" node for example demonstrates that labelling in at least some cases (maybe most) is not required.
Max said "I need to think about it." and maybe he needs to be the one to make the final determination. Nevertheless your thoughts would be appreciated.
James
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