sanforgestudio/luanodeeditor

A powerful and simple Lua Visual Node IDE Tool for game engines, mods and software.

luanodeeditor's Issues

Startup Splash

A splashscreen to promote and load the application for few seconds.

Cannot save or load when using While Loop Node

Found a bug that the .lvs wont open or save with the While Loop Node

Issue:

• While Loop changes to the For Loop when opening the file

Results:

All the attached nodes will be removed because the node changes.

A-Star Support

Adding A*(A-Star) Alghoritm support. For much deeper complex code.

We need a solution to make this easier to implement within our nodes or graphs.

Sample of an A* in usage within Lua.

-- Define a graph (adjacency list)
local graph = {
    A = {B = 1, C = 4},
    B = {A = 1, D = 5},
    C = {A = 4, D = 1},
    D = {B = 5, C = 1}
}

-- Heuristic function (example: Euclidean distance)
local heuristic = {
    A = 5,
    B = 3,
    C = 2,
    D = 0
}

-- A* Algorithm
function astar(start, goal)
    local openSet = {start}
    local cameFrom = {}
    local gScore = { [start] = 0 }
    local fScore = { [start] = heuristic[start] }

    while #openSet > 0 do
        local current = getLowestFScoreNode(openSet, fScore)
        if current == goal then
            return reconstructPath(cameFrom, current)
        end

        table.remove(openSet, findIndex(openSet, current))

        for neighbor, cost in pairs(graph[current]) do
            local tentativeGScore = gScore[current] + cost
            if not gScore[neighbor] or tentativeGScore < gScore[neighbor] then
                cameFrom[neighbor] = current
                gScore[neighbor] = tentativeGScore
                fScore[neighbor] = gScore[neighbor] + heuristic[neighbor]

                if not contains(openSet, neighbor) then
                    table.insert(openSet, neighbor)
                end
            end
        end
    end

    return nil  -- No path found
end

-- Helper functions
function getLowestFScoreNode(set, scores)
    local lowestScore = math.huge
    local lowestNode
    for _, node in ipairs(set) do
        local score = scores[node]
        if score < lowestScore then
            lowestScore = score
            lowestNode = node
        end
    end
    return lowestNode
end

function findIndex(array, value)
    for i, v in ipairs(array) do
        if v == value then
            return i
        end
    end
    return nil
end

function contains(array, value)
    for _, v in ipairs(array) do
        if v == value then
            return true
        end
    end
    return false
end

function reconstructPath(cameFrom, current)
    local path = {current}
    while cameFrom[current] do
        current = cameFrom[current]
        table.insert(path, 1, current)
    end
    return path
end

-- Example usage
local path = astar("A", "D")
print("Path:", table.concat(path, " -> "))

Adding a Node Library in the editor as a window.

Add an extra window in the editor where you can find all the nodes and perhaps a description of the nodes, so beginners can instantly deep dive in the code.

Hardware Profiler

Add a hardware profiler to check hardware performance on the application.

OOP Support

Adding a way to support object oriented programming.

Break Node

What feature do you want to request?

I wanna include a Break node so we can break loops.

Use Case

Usage for breaking loops.

More information

No response

Comment Node

Add a node that allows to insert comments to the code.

Adding AI Co-Pilot (Aka. Nodey)

Adding a chat based AI Co Pilot that can help add nodes.

Add Modulus Node (%)

What feature do you want to request?

Using Modulus(%) operations like divide or multiply

Use Case

The modulus operator (%) in programming returns the remainder of a division operation.

More information

No response

Adding Lua Export Support

Add a way to export .lua files

Plugin support

A way to make custom plugins for the application.

Adding .lua Import Support

Making a .lua file import allowing to import an actual .lua file to the node editor.

Integrated Lua Debugger & Compiler

A must have feature to integrate a internal Lua Debugger / Compiler for running code directly in the program.

• Connect to cusom console log
• Need to set the print node to add result to console log aswell.

Nodes for (for, while, repeat, until, do)

What feature do you want to request?

Nodes for the operations: for, while, repeat, until, do

Use Case

more variation and needed for deeper code.

More information

N/A

Zoom in / out

Allow to scroll zoom in and out on the grid.

Undo, Copy, Paste

Copy, Paste and undo with the nodes while in the grid, aswell as applying keybinds to them.

Logical NOT Node

What feature do you want to request?

Implement a logical NOT as a node to the node editor.

Use Case

can be used for example like:

local negatedValue = not value

More information

N/A

Code Highlight Syntax

A way to color the generated code syntax from lua.

Click to open on windows desktop

Add a feature that allows the lua node editor to execute by right click on Windows Desktop to show:

"Open with lua node editor"

Include XOR Operator

A way to add XOR?

exclusive OR

Wikipedia link here

Sample of Lua code to demonstrate usage of XOR

local A = true
local B = false

local result = A ~ B

print(result) -- Result is True

In Lua, the bitwise XOR operator is represented by the ~ symbol.

Collapsable Function Node

What feature do you want to request?

Make it so that the function is being drawn to a diffirent graph so it can save optimization.

Use Case

Can be usefull for more complext and deep logic using nodes.

More information

No response

Adding blocks like Scratch?

An idea to create additional blocks like Scratch? To combine with Nodes. Not sure if we can manage it but it is a nice idea.