Drag a link off a pin onto empty canvas to open a create-node menu at
the drop point (the editor's QueryNewNode path), filtered to nodes with a
type-connectable pin; the chosen node is created and auto-wired to the
source pin. Direction is handled both ways — drag from an output makes a
downstream consumer, from an input an upstream producer. Type matching is
lenient (exact, or same scalar/2-/3-/4-vector class), mirroring what USD/
MaterialX networks already tolerate; the target pin is the first exact
match else the first connectable. RenderNodeSearchMenu gained an optional
linkSource arg so the TAB popup and this share one implementation, and
CreateShaderNode now returns the created path. Create and connect are two
undo steps.
Materials list: double-click a row starts an inline rename (mirrors
SceneHierarchyPanel — Enter commits, focus-loss/Esc cancels) through
RenamePrimCommand, which fixes up bindings/arcs via UsdNamespaceEditor.
Selection and the open graph follow the rename. This repurposes the row's
double-click, which previously opened the graph; opening stays on the
Show Graph button.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Toolbar: every action is now an icon button (tooltip carries the label,
text fallback with no icon set) via a local iconBtn helper matching the
StageEditor/Timeline convention — Create Material, Presets, Create + Bind,
Bind Current. Icons fill the standard button height (GetFrameHeight, zero
frame padding) so the row stays uniform.
Browser: the materials list and the create-node list are now split by a
draggable HorizontalSplitter (sibling to the column VerticalSplitter)
instead of a fixed 45% / separator; m_browserListRatio holds the list's
share (clamped 0.15-0.85). Create-node entries get a per-category glyph
(Material/Texture/Geometry/Light/Utility) sized to the text line height.
Silence the temporary node-editor drag-regression tracing: the
[NodeGraph] event-trace block is #if 0'd, its PersistNodePosition logs
commented, and the [ed] g_AxNodeEditorDebugLog hook install is commented
out (the vendored editor's dumps are guarded on that hook).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move the imgui-node-editor subset the build actually compiles from
third_party/imgui-node-editor to src/ui/NodeEditor (version-controlled,
MIT LICENSE included). FindImguiNodeEditor.cmake points at the new
location; CMakeLists excludes src/ui/NodeEditor from UI_SOURCES so it
isn't compiled twice.
Material editor presets: a Presets menu (disabled with no open material)
builds a UsdPreviewSurface + UsdUVTexture graph fed by an st primvar
reader, or a MaterialX standard_surface + image graph fed by a texcoord
node. Each is one idempotent, undoable command that re-normalizes layout.
Create Material becomes an icon button. New nodes route through
FindFreeCanvasSpot so a creation never lands on top of an existing node
(overlapping nodes fight over the editor hit test and become undraggable).
Shader-ball preview: pick a previewable output (terminal or 3/4-component
color-like) instead of always the first output, so scalar-only nodes keep
the whole-material preview rather than failing Storm codegen. Per-shape
camera frame-fit margins and auto-clip framing.
Fixes: DeletePrimCommand::Undo recreates missing destination ancestors
before SdfCopySpec (parent material may have been deleted after the
command ran). ConfigWindowsMoveFromTitleBarOnly stops a content-area drag
in the node canvas from moving the whole Material Editor window.
Temporary (marked for removal once the node-editor drag regression is
diagnosed): main.cpp mirrors LOG_INFO to %APPDATA%\UsdLayerManager\
debug.log; a g_AxNodeEditorDebugLog hook in the vendored editor plus a
[NodeGraph] event-trace block in RenderNodeGraphCanvas dump click/drag/
selection/position-save state.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Preview geometry dropdown: Sphere / Cube / Cylinder (native prims),
Teapot and Hair (bundled resources/preview/*.usdc - teapot tessellated
from the Newell patch data with the Blinn 1.3x height correction, hair
as 220 procedural B-spline strands), and Cloud Volume (UsdVolVolume
over the OpenVDB bunny_cloud sample, downloaded at CMake configure and
gitignored like the HDRIs). Shapes live under one scope with the
material bound on it; switching activates one shape and reframes the
camera. Missing assets drop out of the dropdown. usdVol added to the
USD link set. The camera starts in a Maya-style 3/4 view.
Node property values switch from Input* fields back to draggable
controls (Ctrl+click to type): live-apply while dragging, one undo
command on release.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Drop the 'Shader Ball' label; the renderer switch and HDR environment
dropdowns sit side by side at the top of the preview column, above the
swatch. Both pickers take an optional item width.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
MaterialBrowserWidth / MaterialPreviewWidth in preferences.ini, saved
from the live splitter positions on shutdown and restored (clamped to
the splitter ranges) at startup.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The create-node list is now a two-level tree: a header per node source
(USD, MaterialX, Arnold, Cycles - from the Sdr sourceType, with glslfx
and OSL merged into USD so core nodes don't appear twice) containing
Hypershade-style category sub-trees (Material / Texture / Geometry /
Utility / Light) derived from Sdr context, terminal output types, role,
and name keywords. Duplicate collapsing is per (source, label) so
same-named nodes from different providers both stay; searching forces
all sections open. The TAB popup shows [Source/Category] per entry.
The browser and preview columns get drag splitters (viewport-divider
styling, clamped widths); the canvas absorbs the remainder.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Same table anatomy as the attribute inspector: authored-state (a)
mini-button with path/type tooltip and copy-path popup, fixed name
column, stretch value column with row striping. Widgets switch to the
same vocabulary (InputFloat/InputScalarN %.4f, InputInt, default
ColorEdit swatches) committing on deactivation, and connected inputs
render as '-> node.output'. Preview column widens to 320 to fit; the
shader ball centers in it. Per-edit undo commands are kept.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Browser column lists all scene materials plus a searchable create-node
list; Show Graph (or double-click) loads a material into the node-graph
work area. The graph shows the entire network including MaterialX
(.mtlx) node graphs, resolving connections through NodeGraph boundaries
via UsdShadeUtils::GetValueProducingAttributes, with layered auto-layout
for nodes lacking authored uiPosition. Canvas navigates viewport-style
(Alt+MMB pan / Alt+RMB zoom) and TAB opens a Nuke-style search popup.
Selecting a node shows a typed property editor (live-apply, one undo
command per edit) and previews that node's output on the shader ball.
The preview renders through its own Hydra engine into a scratch stage
that composes the material via a reference to the source root layer (so
referenced .mtlx materials work), re-renders until progressive delegates
(Arnold/Cycles/Embree) converge, and lights with HDR dome presets
(External/Room/Interior/Sunset; CC0 Poly Haven EXRs fetched at CMake
configure). texture:format is authored latlong explicitly - left
automatic, hdArnold falls back to Arnold's angular fisheye default -
and hdCycles gets a -90 X pole rotation to match Storm's +Y-pole
sampling.
Mutations go through new ICommand subclasses (create shader node,
connect/disconnect attrs). imgui-node-editor is vendored (gitignored)
with a local one-line patch: c_ScrollButtonIndex 1->2 for MMB pan.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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