Pin individual modules

[microbe]

Pressing ctrl-G to organise a scene is pretty good until it becomes a complex scene, then it tends to stretch everything horizontally.

It would be a nice feature to be able to pin individual modules in place and then have ctrl-G work it's magic.

If, for example, there was 15 modules and I pinned 1, 5 and 10 where I wanted them, and then used ctrl-G, those modules would stick in place and the rest would be moved relative to them.

Hard to describe, but instead of 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15

it would be

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1-2-3-4
      /
     /
    5-6-7-8-9
             |
             |
            10-11-12-13-14-15

This would make the UI way better.

[Terry Payman]

+1

[microbe]

Do the devs even read this forum?

[TKS]

Yes, they definitely do.
That's why I add my +1 as well!

[Sadler]

In the good ol' days I asked for a similar mechanism,

consider the suggestion to more neatly stack modules, having connectors somehow connect vertically.

Also in that thread I suggested that nodes be stacked more closely. Tixl didn't exist in the good ol' days but the dev there implemented stacked nodes a while ago:

Tixl's scratch-like stacking of nodes

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Personally, I never use auto-arrange to organise my modules, preferring to do it manually but I can certainly understand the OPs request. But I think the idea would have to be developed further (and have more user interest) before the Magic folks weigh-in.

[microbe]

FWIW, unless I only have about 5 modules, I have given up on auto arrange, it tends to make things worse.

Maybe for another thread, a great feature would to be able to zoom in and out and move around the workspace like in touch Designer and Tixl.

[SelfDrivingCarp]

I'd really like the ability to group a set of modules into one box, just to hide all the individual modules whose settings should (usually) be fixed. It would cut down on the clutter.

[Magic]

I'd really like the ability to group a set of modules into one box, just to hide all the individual modules whose settings should (usually) be fixed. It would cut down on the clutter.

Just to let everyone know, this is one of the things that Scene modules are useful for: https://magicmusicvisuals.com/downloads ... eneModules