The MagmaFlow grid isn’t working for me. I can change the background, but can’t get a grid to show up.
Oh, and something else… none of my flows “reorder” well. I might just be confused about how the reordering works, but… Could you add an function to set all the Input Sockets on one side and the Output Sockets on the other? Like “Set Output Sockets to Right”, “Set Input Sockets to Left”, etc? So that I can “reset” my flow without having to look really hard to see what’s in and what’s out?
Nothing terribly important, just trying to move through the MagmaFlow work nicely, and it’s less “Fusion-like” than I would like, and I’m having a hard time adjusting.
The background uses a bitmap, at zoom scale of 1.0 it should appear. If it does not, it is a question for Kees I guess, we just use his Helium controls as much as we can, and the background image was an option I abused to do a tiled grid background. It disappears at some scale factors because I cannot get 1:1 pixel to position correspondence.
We couldn’t reproduce Fusion since we had no control over the Helium feature set and no time to write our own.
I will look into the socket side issue - currently, some modes tweak the location of the sockets to make the flow look better (sometimes neither side is good).
I could add a flag to disable the socket switching - the nodes already have a flag to flip the socket manually if desired, so once the auto-change is disallowed, you should be able to do what you want. Then I could add “Inputs OutSockets Right”, “Inputs OutSockets Left”, “Operators OutSockets Left” and “Operators OutSockets Right”. Right now there is no option to flip the InSockets of operators to the right, only the OutSockets default to right and can be flipped to the left.
Not related to the grid, the loading of colors was broken when we switched Local Settings and Local preference files.
The values were saved to the Local Settings (bad idea) but loaded from the Local Plugcfg folder. Since colors should be customizable per Max version, the Local folder should be used, not the Local Settings user folders.
Fixed.
Thanks for reporting, now this looks like a proper Beta process
Yeah, it sucks when I have real work to do. Can’t spend the time I need on testing stuff. The Fusion 6 beta ate up a lot of my bug generation resources, too.
It seems to me, personally, that you’d want to position the nodes such that the pipes all flow in one direction, either left to right, or bottom to top. The reordering doesn’t seem to preserve this. I’m getting a lot of pipes flowing backward, mostly related to having the output connect to two (or more) inputs where the inputs are at opposite ends of the flow.
