Node property semantics into tooltip?

 
 
 
Posted by:mbreidt
Data created:25 October 2012

After watching the (cool) Constrain to UV tutorial, I would like to suggest adding some more textual information to the tooltips that appear for each node input/output port.

Right now, we can see the type of the port, but there is no way beyond guessing or experimenting to understand what the semantics of each value are - essentially: 'what do they do, what do they mean, why/when should I use them?'.

In the tutorial, you explain them verbally while you drag them out (often out of the additional parameter submenu that is hidden by default, making it even harder to find them), but I really think these informations need to go right into the node UI.

The alternative to describe them all in a reference manual sounds very laborious, unclear and ineffective.

Martin

Martin

 

Yes, one of the bigger items on our TODO list which we've been pushing off is parsing .NET XML comment/doc files and embedding the meta data into the library database so that we can display it in various places. I can definitely see the importance of this for feature discovery among other things.

Marsel Khadiyev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)