GraphEdit/Graphnode set_slot help

ron

Im trying to learn how to use the graphedit and graphnode nodes. But I cant find a simple example of how to use it or add connection slots using set_slot. I have found some examples using these nodes but they are tough to tear apart and figure it out.

thanks for the help

Megalomaniak

@ron said: I have found some examples using these nodes but they are tough to tear apart and figure it out.

thanks for the help

Could you post those links?

ron

@Megalomaniak said: Could you post those links?

https://github.com/bruno-ortiz/Behave https://github.com/StraToN/godot-dialogtreetools

ron

Also is there a way to add slots without code?

Megalomaniak

I wouldn't know since I haven't looked at the graph-edit/node before, but I'm interested myself so I'll take a look and see if I can't figure it out.

edit: also quick googling got me this result: https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/4sxxpr/looking_for_a_graphnode_graphedit_example/

not much but a helpful starting point/insight non-the-less.

ron

@Megalomaniak said: I wouldn't know since I haven't looked at the graph-edit/node before, but I'm interested myself so I'll take a look and see if I can't figure it out.

edit: also quick googling got me this result: https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/4sxxpr/looking_for_a_graphnode_graphedit_example/

not much but a helpful starting point/insight non-the-less.

Yea i found that but it lacked enough detail for me to get started. But thank you

Megalomaniak

After quickly looking through StraToN's dialogTreeTools I think it is actually a pretty good example to pull apart, not too many nodes in that system yet to be too confusing. You might have a different issue here, that is to say you are not perhaps too familiar yet with godot and the way it works. Might perhaps want to do more practice projects before you get into a more complex project like this. Then again that is not to say that this can't be a good type of project to learn from, just that it's going to involve learning a lot of new things, which if you are a new user could get a bit frustrating.

ron

Well yes i am not an expert in godot but im familiar with how it works. I just needed to be pointed in the right direction since documentation is minimal on this. but than you for the help

@Megalomaniak said: After quickly looking through StraToN's dialogTreeTools I think it is actually a pretty good example to pull apart, not too many nodes in that system yet to be too confusing. You might have a different issue here, that is to say you are not perhaps too familiar yet with godot and the way it works. Might perhaps want to do more practice projects before you get into a more complex project like this. Then again that is not to say that this can't be a good type of project to learn from, just that it's going to involve learning a lot of new things, which if you are a new user could get a bit frustrating.

Megalomaniak

As I said, I'm interested in this myself, and I'm going to keep exploring this. Also just to be clear I didn't try to be discouraging really, just give a heads up that if you intend to keep working on this it's definitely going to take a bit of an effort. Certainly not the easiest thing to start off with.

So with that said, if you are adamant in doing this I suggest you just do what I'm about to do: Download the dialogTreeTools and instead of installing it as a addon/plugin - edit the project and just start messing around with it to get a bit more familiar with it. In my personal experience it won't really take long to figure out what is basically what.

ron

thank you again for the help. I didn't think you were being discouraging. I just wanted state that I am not inexperienced with godot and this is not my first project with it. Im looking forward to hear what you get out of the dialognodetree project.

Megalomaniak

Yeah OK, so your problem was that you couldn't add connection slots. You have to create the template GraphNode(that you will presumably want to instance through code) and add child nodes(such as labels) which then produce the slot indices in the inspector.

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edit: run-time result:

ron

Yes that was the hurdle I was trying to get over. Its the simple things that catch me sometimes. Thank you.