Marionette Wishes

[Kevin McAllister]

Could we have the co-ordinates and rotation of a Marionette Object available in the OIP like we do for symbols and other PIOs? It clearly is container with an insertion point like these are.

A general observation about Marionette is that right now its essentially a visual porting of Python scripting. This is really apparent when you start trying to work with text objects. Ultimately if Marionette is supposed to make scripting more accessible it should help to hide how bad scripting in VW can be in certain areas. Text is a prime example of how terrible scripting in Vectorscript can be. As a user what I really need is a simple text node with an insertion point, justification, and input for a string. That way I could easily insert an position a text object in relation to other geometry using the current text defaults.

Kevin

Edited August 4, 2016 by Kevin McAllister

[Kevin McAllister]

I wish for a modern, real world Marionette text node that creates a proper visual scripting wrapper for the archaic text functions in Vectorscript / Python. Something that incorporates a dropdown font menu and all the other normal font controls you expect for a text object. There should also be a simple version that uses a dropdown for text styles.

Visual scripting is supposed to be a simple gateway to scripting, not a direct port of a scripting language that has been cobbled together over 20+ years....

KM

Edited August 7, 2016 by Kevin McAllister

[Kevin McAllister]

I really wish we could use the Debug mode to trace things within a Marionette object.....

And that selecting the Node dropdown menu automatically switched back out of the Debug mode....

Kevin

[RickR]

+2

There are several dialogs where you have to click one thing in order to click on something else. I call that poor UI design!

[Kevin McAllister]

I'd like to be able to right click on a node and have the option to "disconnect".

(The current workaround is cut/paste.)

KM

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(The current workaround is cut/paste.)

KM

Cool, didn't know that.

I always tried to pull it out with the drag tool.

[RickR]

I use Ctrl-Drag a lot, a new version about where I need it.

[Kevin McAllister]

Another Marionette wish to add - I would like Marionette Objects to be able to display values generated by a Marionette network in the OIP as static text much like VW displays things like area for regular objects.

See this thread - Example One - and this thread - Example 2

KM