While on the topic of UX improvements: can we please get some visual hint when a node has variable input pins.
Case in point: the Format (String) node. When you browse for it, this is what you see:
So you think, ah, the input just needs a spread of objects and then in the format string I can reference the indexes.
Well, no, you can’t as it turns out:
After asking in the chat someone told me that it does indeed have variable inputs.
Since the node doesn’t have a help patch, how would someone ever know about this other than asking?
Even the Inspector does not help in this regards, other than the fact that you can actually remove the input, which might give you a hint.
There is also no way to add a pin from the inspector and in fact you can simply remove the last input and now you also need to learn about the keyboard shortcut first.
In this Cons node if I remove all the input pins from the inspector I now have some broken wires as well:
So I think 3 things should be fixed/added:
- In the inspector don’t let us remove the last input unless we have a way to get it back
- Let us adjust the number of inputs in the inspector
- Highlight a variable input by something, a color or whatever and also highlight it in the node browser
Thanks for considering/fixing.