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[bhowiebkr]

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[jimkring]

Hi @bhowiebkr. I was curious if you've used this in any applications. I'm a LabVIEW programmer (and also use Python a lot, too), so I'm familiar with node-based programming. :)

[bhowiebkr]

Sofar nothing. I like the concept of nodes but never found a good use for them in my own code. My experience with nodes is in Autodesk Maya when I used to be a rigger. All kinds of messy node graphs. Many VFX tools are node based. Then in Unreal Engine which works great with nodes from blueprints to shaders. But I find it difficult to organize and mentally maintain a node graph of code in my head. In the case of Unreal Engine once I get lost in the nodes I redo it all in C++

Sebastian Lague’s series on YouTube of Exploring how Computers Work is really interesting and I’ve thought about remaking that with this node editor so I can follow along.

Alot of this python node editor code I wrote a long long time ago and it was used as a visualizer tool to show dependencies of assets and their relation to shots in a VFX pipeline.

I’d like to turn this into a general python computing tool with nodes where you write your python code in a new node type and it communicates with connected nodes through Qt’s signals and slot framework. Have a concept of caching nodes if their state doesn’t change.

I don’t know how people are using this code but I feel like it’s incomplete and I bet many people are downloading this code and having to implement the same common missing things: save/load graph, implement some kind of logic on the nodes so they do something.

[jimkring]

@bhowiebkr -- I like where your ideas! 👍