Hello Karsten,

>> I am very busy at the moment....<<

Thank you so much for taking the time to get back to me, & for the explanation.

As it turns out the usual solution (that I described in my earlier post) of appending the dropped item
to the end of the bundled array, did indeed work....the issue was the sweep node option set to "union" rather than "long".

I reattached .nod file to my previous post: http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=7777.1598

Although the work around is not difficult, it would be good to have a long option builtin to the bundleArray node.


Great to hear from you
James
https://www.instagram.com/nodeology/

Hello

Is there a description for each node?

Regards from Bavarian

<< Is there a description for each node?

That's i must make at the beginning of september!
Native Elephant - Extension
French / English ( + inside the node editor itself
that is 75% made for the French part and of course 100% yet made for the English part! ;)

cool :-)

If node.js code were modified so that a regular node could be opened up like a macro, to show its output label as an output slot, than the user could change the output slot label of the node to " " (space) ...

- Brian

Or else add the ability to change the output label to the information box...

Brian,

I don't see much advantage in making the output label editable, after-all the colours indicate the type of data outputted and the nodes themselves have editable titles which could serve any explanatory role. In instances where the outputs require specific labelling, these should most definitely be retained (& IMHO should remain un-editable)

However, I think the idea would have great merit for inputs.

Often I find myself translating equations so that they have alphabetised variables. It can be a quite counterintuitive process of letter substitution. It would be ideal if the "maths" and "mathsPts" nodes allowed editing of the inputs, like shown:



Also adding new inputs ATM is a 2 step process: first RMB clicking "Inputs" then selecting submenu button denoting next letter. This second step could be removed.

Getting back to "Out" labels. Perhaps we could do an experiment. I could post an alternative nodeEditor folder with all unnecessary labels removed, and those that want to trial it could then report back whether or not they thought the removal of labels had an impact on their user experience.

James
https://www.instagram.com/nodeology/

Brian,

Although as I said before, that the colour of the output dot indicates the data type, there are a few nodes with more than 1 output of a particular datatype. These cases may require labelling to distinguish between them, but often, as in the case of your "Centroid" node, an extra object output is the same as the object input. This output is useful because it means that a "Clone" node can be avoided. However if nodes could have multiple Obj outputs (similar to Num & Pt datatypes), these extra outputs would then be superfluous. The node may then be like this:



I'm not suggesting you alter your "Centroid" node, I'm only reinforcing the point that node title itself often has all the descriptive content needed to explain the nature of outputs.

James
https://www.instagram.com/nodeology/

PS Switch node is a beautifully elegant node that demonstrates that the absence of I/O labelling is not necessarily an impediment to comprehension and usage.....quite the opposite!

Hi All,

It has been a while since I've posted an experiment in NE here,
though I have been regularly posting them to my instagram gallery of node play.

I thought I might post this, (see below) because it was a real labour of love.
It took hours & hours to finally get it to work.

James
https://www.instagram.com/nodeology/

Cool result!

Was only minutes in TopMod! ;)

Thanks Pilou,

>> only minutes in TopMod. <<

Yes I watched similar youtube video, to work out the procedure to articulate in NE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SUjZITJIOw

& although it took a long time to create, once done it is possible to adjust thickness, tapers and
even move the 5 way connectors to the interior, so that 3 way junctions are on the exterior.
Unlimited variation: as is the nature of parametric design.

Thanks again,
James
https://www.instagram.com/nodeology/

Yes i just seen something about real spiraling Shells : it uses only Scale, Rotation, Twist! :)

Math + Nature: what a fantastic source of inspiration !
Big thanks for this info !
regards
O.

Does it possible to have some nodes by default on the screen at start of Elephant like the Output ?

For function loadDefaultNodes(), see lines 21 through 26 of the file init.js, located in core subdirectory of nodeeditor.

function loadDefaultNodes()
{
var node_output = LiteGraph.createNode("Basic/Output");
node_output.pos = [800,100];
graph.add(node_output);
}

- Brian

Many thanks!
Cool : works like a charm! Will added in few times http://moiscript.weebly.com/node.html#addanodeselected

function loadDefaultNodes()
{
var node_output = LiteGraph.createNode("Basic/Output");
node_output.pos = [800,100];
graph.add(node_output);
var node_selected = LiteGraph.createNode("Objects/Selected");
node_selected.pos = [400,100];
graph.add(node_selected);
}

Ok i haved finished the Section Not Native Construct2 all English ;) Next will be Curve2
http://moiscript.weebly.com/construct2.html

...except these 2 little things where i am sucked! :(

if you have some ideas ?

Hi All,

I am getting an error message when using curveLength node. (see below)

TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'this.outputs[1].label = len[0].toFixed(2)')

moi://appdata/nodeeditor/nodes/extensions/infonodes.js   line 74

70:               out.addObject(inObj.item(i).clone());
71:               } 
72:             }
73:             this.setOutputData(0, out);
74: >>          if(len.length>0) this.outputs[1].label = len[0].toFixed(2);
75:             this.setOutputData(1, len);
76:         }
77:         crv_length.prototype.onPropertyChange = function ()
78:         {

I have attached a simple .nod file. Can someone please run it to see if problem is universal or specific to my setup. I have already tried reloading both my v4beta & nodeEditor folder without fixing this issue.

I would greatly appreciate any assistance
Have a great weekend
James
https://www.instagram.com/nodeology/

You ask a curve's length of a Point ?

Hi James,
How did you get a gold output to connect to a green input?
Once detached, I cannot get this incorrect connection to reconnect.

The green output hooked to the green input shows the length as 57.38.

Gold output to an Output node draws the curve.
Its MoI length with unwrap curve script is 57.3800598.

- Brian

Thanks Brian & Pilou,

Is is apparent now that my fiddling with the code is the issue.
I will overwrite with original code.

Thanks again
James