@ThomBlairIII Hey :D

Node editor is the most common term I've seen actually

well apparently I'm racing @X-27 for first. can I get some votes on this one for a hat...

@GiantCowFilms is your herd going on vacation this year?

@gandalf3 Hi! :) Well, I was wondering about that type of layout editor in general, not just in blender. Like, Adobe Illustrator allows you to group things and them move them and still maintain connections between vertices that aren't being moved. Same in Blender, even when you're modeling...if you move certain faces of a cube, all the faces related to that vertex will change shape accordingly.

So, I was wondering if there is a name for that style of UI

@ThomBlairIII! wow nice to see you.

oh, not just with nodes?

Yep

Hi David!

I'm playing a base-building video game

PS you two, I'd still like some votes

@ThomBlairIII name?

Not sure, I've seen "node editor" used outside of blender but I'm not aware of any more general term

And there is no planning feature in the game that allows you plot out where you might like to place things before you actually build them "physically"

I'm playing hats :)

@David Oh ok, which things should I upvote?

@ThomBlairIII Oh so you are looking for something that you can layout your base before you build it.

@ThomBlairIII linked chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/52968557#52968557 and chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/52968353#52968353 :)

Moderators endorsing vote fixing‽ Scandalous

just kidding

@gandalf3 Yes, some kind of ghost images that can be dynamically rearranged to make sure they fit into the space allowed

@gandalf3 "It's for the hatz"™

@David There was only 1 link you sent me to upvote...did you mean for that to happen?

@ThomBlairIII yah only one.

@David Gangster rap made me do it

lol

XD

Don't worry I won't tell anyone else in the whole of stackexchangia

@gandalf3 nah I got to get iklsr and Duarte to UV it too :)

lol

XD

lol

That cinches it

corruption runs deep

All for hatz

....

Whatever shall we do

Every day we stray farther from God's light

I mean, that tends to happen when you wear multiple hats

XD

Well, I do endorse fun upvoting as long as no body gets hurt

Especially if there are unicorn hats

@gandalf3 I got it, the answer... more hats!

Brilliant

Just don't poke anyone with the unicorn one

As long as you don't stoop to drive-by shootings over it, then it's ok

Or impale any hats with it

make sure to wear it on top

OH OH you could have a narwhale tusk hat

I almost lost it when I saw that in the news

@ThomBlairIII well now that you mention it... the hats list could use some help (its a CW so the votes dont matter.)

I was like WTFFF???

Is this real news???

Who is responsible for trolling us this badly??!?

But it turned out to be REAL NEWS!

@ThomBlairIII "fake news, very fake news"

Well, they did a really impressive job of making it look real

I couldn't do that in Blender

It'd look kinda cheesy if I'd tried to fake it in Blender

At least I think

It started to feel like it might be close to proof we're living in a simulator that some kid loaded Goat Sim into

(Disclaimer: in case people don't know what I'm talking about, it was in the news

Oh gosh, I've forgotten the markup

Markup/markdown should be standardized for Pete's sake

@gandalf3 Oh ok, I thanks for your input

I didn't see it when you first posted it

@ThomBlairIII [link text](http://theurlhere.com)

Oh ok

Thanks!

Ah, it's already set up, like concrete

Wait too long and it just get's hard as a rock

can't edit it no more

@ThomBlairIII dont worry I know a mod that can edit it. @gandalf3 :)

poof

omg, thank you!!!

the perks!

yeah, I've never liked concrete that much tbh

so Ik has a ban hammer, gandalf3 has a jackhammer!

I mean, it's nice and all, but so hard if you hit it

It smells funny too

But better than asphalt

WAY better

Ok, I don't want to ramble on too long here, no matter how fun it might be

I've got bases to build on mars

Planetbase

don't use too much asphalt

have fun!

store.steampowered.com/app/403190/Planetbase

Ok, y'all too

Oh that looks cool

Yeah, it could be really awesome if they allowed it to be modded

I'd love to make some mods for it

The devs didn't put in some features that'd be awesome

But it's still really stable and bug free

Which is pretty impressive

It's a lot like Rimworld

But 3D

So that's cool

Nice graphics & sound

nice \o/

yep!

@DuarteFarrajotaRamos you have to get the unicorn hat (gold badge) then all 4 of us mods can be unicorns :)

@David Nope!

@GiantCowFilms aww. but on the plus side you can get hats. or help others here get hats :)

Yeah, I clean forgot about hats until today.

@GiantCowFilms WHAT!?!? HOW ON EARTH COULD YOU FORGET ABOUT THE WINTER BASH

(caps intentional.)

@GiantCowFilms I'm almost in first, but you'll recognize the guy in first...

No idea who he is, but he looks like a pyromaniac.

Also, we do really well at this hat bash thing for being a site of middling volume.

@GiantCowFilms lol is it the avatar that gives it away?

@GiantCowFilms :) 🐄

@David I'm interested!

We've been unfrozen!

holy shit blender is cool

I just started 5 min ago. Doing fluid simulations and trying to create a tsunami for a vfx shot.

@JBis That's an ambitious first shot. Good luck!

thank you!

keep us posted on the tsunami