Creating new input and output plugs for a group is a pretty easy and common operation for users who have already done it at least one time. As we experienced recently, whether it is for new users or people who don’t do this operation so often, adding an input of the exact type one need can be pretty tricky because the UI feedback to do so is too discreet.
This can sound strange, especially once one know how to do it, but we spent quite some time, at 3 persons with various knowledge of the application, to find how it actually works (found it by going into the code…).
PROBLEM
So what we tried to achieve was this: On the Group Inputs node, which already had a float input, we wanted to add another plug of type float. We browsed the UI, read the documentation… We weren’t able to find a place where to specify the new plug type.
We believe that if the transparent black-rounded last plug of the node had been more visible we would have found the solution far quicker.
SOLUTION
We then propose 2 improvements to make things more intuitive:
1- Making the “new plug” more visible
2- Allowing the user to explicitly set the type of the plug she is about to create in the Interface panel.
What do you think of all this?
Thank you
