this doesn’t regard only Stoke but Magma in general
working with magma flows especilly with Field Magma or Field Simulator or any magma flow that has several exposed parameters i discovered that is really annoing that we cant change the order of these exposed parameters
i mean when i expose elemets they get the order based on their creation number so in the place to have a well organized parameters set we only get a mess…
when you just created your setup it’s ok because you remember what you just did but when you reopen a setup months later then you have to spend a lot of time trying to remember the logic
the same is when you pass your setup to an artist you have to excuse for the mess in the parameters and spend more time to explain what you did and how to use it
i can see that this positioning respects the creation number of each node…is it possible to implement a quick way to switch the node numbers? or sometning similar? so we can create a more tidy panel
I am pretty sure it would be possible to introduce an alternative, user-defined sorting order for the exposed controls. It is definitely doable, since the whole UI logic is implemented in MAXScript anyway.
I will take a look tomorrow and see what can be done…
Just did a first test (Input and Output channels only) and it is working well. Need to add the extra order ID properties to all exposable nodes next, hope to have something working tomorrow…
I have uploaded an updated Magma UI script file to the Stoke Beta forum.
I am pretty sure you have access to it. The new script is for the current Stoke MX 2.3 Beta.
Let me know if you need a temp. 2.3. license to test it…
