VfxGraphBuilder

Remarks

Blocks, not expressions. A shader node emits a line of source; a VFX node adds an operation to one of three lists, or names the renderer. That is the difference between the two graphs, and it is the whole difference: everything else — the ports, the typing, the ordering, the diagnostics — is the same framework.

Parameters are numbers, not text. A VfxOperation holds two Vector4s, so a node reads its ports through Value rather than through the expression a shader node would interpolate. That is why the framework hands over both forms.

Fields and properties (8)

• public List<VfxSpawner> Spawners

  The spawners, in the order the graph produced them.

• public List<VfxOperation> Initializers

  The initializers.

• public List<VfxOperation> Updaters

  The updaters.

• public VfxRenderer? Renderer

  How the particles are drawn, when a node has said.

• public int Capacity

  The most particles that may be alive at once.

• public List<VfxCustomAttribute> Customs

  The custom attributes the graph declares.

• public List<string> Problems

  What a node found wrong while contributing, for the compiler to report against the graph.

• public string RibbonAttribute

  The attribute a ribbon output named, resolved to a slot once every node has contributed.

Methods (3)

• public int Custom(string name, VfxAttributeType type)

  The slot a named custom attribute occupies, declaring it if this is the first mention.

• public int SlotOf(string name)

  The slot a named custom attribute already occupies, without declaring one.

• public static bool TypeOfLanes(int lanes, out VfxAttributeType type)

  What a lane count means as an attribute type.

Used by (34)

• AngularVelocityNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• AttractNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• BillboardOutputNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• BurstNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• CollidePlaneNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• CollideSphereNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• ColourNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• ColourOverLifeNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• CustomOverLifeNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• DragNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• EffectNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• GravityNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• IntegrateNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• LifetimeNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• LightOutputNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• MeshOutputNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• PositionInBoxNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• PositionInSphereNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• PositionNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• RandomCustomNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• RandomVelocityNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• RateNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• RibbonOutputNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• RotateNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• RotationNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• SetCustomNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• SetVelocityNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• SizeNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• SizeOverLifeNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• TurbulenceNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• VelocityInConeNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• VfxGraphCompilerVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• VfxNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph
• VortexNodeVixen.Editor.VfxGraph