Kennedy Richard maintains OSSIn Nodezator's dev branch: changed the magnetic sockets feature to make it closer to what I envisioned originally: the nodes had hands and would help you by grabbing the new connection for you.
The hands are CC0 assets from the excellent
@kenneynl
No guys, hear me out, we might be onto something here! What about tracking eyes that become happy when the connection is reached out? (also in Nodezator's dev branch)
Okay, you asked, and now there's a hand near the mouse to meet the one on the nearby socket as well. Thank you all for the suggestions so far. (already on Nodezator's dev branch as well). #Python #nodeeditor
In case you didn't know, Nodezator is a generalist Python node editor. Open-source proudly dedicated to the public domain. It is a serious project but still has a long way to go (it is quite useable already though).
https://github.com/IndiePython/nodezator
https://github.com/IndiePython/nodezator
And, of course, if you wish to support my work on it, I have a patreon for recurrent donations, Github sponsors for one-time donations and other options that you can find here: https://indiepython.com/donate.html
I even went and made a website for it upon its release a couple years ago. It is not much, but it is honest work. Nodezator is a project that is truly near and dear to my heart ❤️
https://nodezator.com
https://nodezator.com
Also to the people scared of the nodes/grabby hands: don't worry users will be able to fully customize this behaviour, including the ability to get rid of them, leaving only the socket proximity detection. After all, they may be distracting to some.
After all, the nodes are harmless.
Just make sure not to turn your back to them when they are on the screen.
(won't actually push this, just played a bit on a local branch)
Final version is very similar, but decided to hide the cursor. Now I use the hand that extends from the 1st socket like a cursor, instead of having it offset behind the cursor as before.
Thank you all for the feedback, specially
mechadense
&
lisa44Yes (handles from X). Feels and looks better. #Python #nodeeditor
fsniper@KennedyRichard That looks cool. I think blender could adopt some of these ideas to it's node editor.
@fsniper Absolutely. Love Blender. Created this very node editor out of my will of using Blender node editor for general computing. Never abandoned it, but didn't use it in the past few years simply cause I didn't need to do any 3D work.
Honestly, any node editor should have some sort of connection assistance, cause having to drop the mouse exactly over tiny sockets quickly becomes annoying.