[ GUI Suggestions ] An Innovative More Detailed Slow Mo Data Tracker

[ GUI Suggestions ] An Innovative More Detailed Slow Mo Data Tracker

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[ GUI Suggestions ] An Innovative More Detailed Slow Mo Data Tracker

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Hi. In Unreal, sometimes you can can what's happening with the flow of data and that's a great tool to see visually what's happening. Stingray can take this to the next level. I'd like to suggest a kind of "What's happening" mode for debugging mostly but it can trump UE's version by having a slider to really slow things down and to really be detailed. For example, when you're in this mode and it's on another panel you can view, say, you're moving an actor through different lights and the actor has a complicted material, shaders (lighmaps, etc.), it'd be easier to understand if it shows you want's going on in slow mo (you set the actor to certain distance for it to repeatedly go there). on the slow mo panel, it shows you what the system is first rendering and it maybe points first to the rust_texture in the materials folder where it shows you in slow (it goes to that folder in slow mo) then goes to the other stuff, shader, scripts (in the script, you can follow the data in slow mo), if it has external subroutines, it slowly opens that so you can keep up. It's like the tv series CSI, where things are in detail and really into it. It's like the ultimate visualized debugging tool.

 

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frank.delise
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nice suggestion

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This slow mo very detailed visual tracking wysiwyg of the flow of data would also be helpful in debugging processes for multi cores (gpu or cpu or whatever next processor they invent soon) so it's easy to see in a straighforward way which actual files and nodes, etc. are operating. It'll be easier to see visually what each core is doing in slow mo
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[ Hi Frank. It's cool Autodesk employees reply fast, unlike the other established engines. By the way I was directed by Autodesk Helpdesk twitter to post Stingray things to Maya LT before I believe the Stingray forum was launched. Is there a transfer feature on the forums to transfer a lot of the posts from Maya LT? If there's non yet, that's another suggestion on improving the forums)
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