Brainiac Designer

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dkollmann — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:07:08 GMT

- sub-referenced behaviours and impulses are now shown in a different colour - dashed lines are now connecting sub-referenced lines - sub-referenced impulses are no longer shown if there is no sub-referenced behaviour further down

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dkollmann — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:11:29 GMT

- published release v1.3a

CREATED RELEASE: Brainiac Designer v1.3a (May 14, 2008)

Wed, 14 May 2008 10:10:48 GMT

Fixed a major issue that the view was not updated when deleting nodes from a sub-referenced behaviour. The try to delete this node a second time then caused the editor to crash.

- fixed that modifying events did not update the view
- fixed that when deleting nodes, the view was not updated
- another method for measuring the size of strings is now used so the display of the text in the view should now be more accurate.

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dkollmann — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:48:43 GMT

- another method for measuring the size of strings is now used so the display of the text in the view should now be more accurate.

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dkollmann — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:39:17 GMT

- fixed that modifying events did not update the view - fixed that when deleting nodes, the view was not updated

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dkollmann — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:01:26 GMT

- published release v1.3 - moved design mode output into the plugin folder - added missing copyright and description to Design Mode assembly

UPDATED WIKI: Home

dkollmann — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:59:08 GMT

Project Description
Brainiac Designer is an open-source visual behaviour tree editor. It allows you to build behaviour trees by using simply drag&drop. The editor supports exporters but also uses XML files to save the behaviour trees, so you can either write your own exporter or use another program/commandlet to generate the desired files. Nodes are loaded from your own project related DLL file and can be fully customised using attributes. As an example, it includes the plugin and behaviours of my own AI, I am currently prototyping using Project Hoshimi.

How To Create A New Plugin - Updating Under Windows Vista

Change of License

After reviewing the LGPL license, I realised that the license did not fit my requirements. Thus, I changed the license to the New BSD License which allows you to use the software without having to publish your modifications.
It is still highly appreciated if you commit bugs or even fixes to the project.

Note

Please notice that the Brainiac Designer is an editor. You have to write your own exporter which generates files for your AI. The editor also contains no node logic so it contains no AI. You have to implement the nodes by yourself. Nodes can be added, removed or modified by modifying the source code of the example plugin included.

Controls

To load an existing behaviour, double click it in the the node explorer (on the left).
To drag the graph around, hold down the left mouse button on the graph and move your mouse.
To zoom in and out, scroll your mouse wheel over the graph.
To attach a new node, drag it from the node explorer (on the left) on a node in the graph (on the right). Arrows will appear which allow you to add the node in a specific location of the graph.
To delete a node from the graph, select it by left clicking it and press the delete key. Its children will not be deleted.
To delete a node from the graph as well as its children, select it by left clicking it and press Ctrl-Delete. (v1.2+)
To move a node in the graph, drag it on another node by holding down the right mouse button. Arrows will appear which allow you to place the node in a specific location of the graph.
When you place an event as a node, it will create an impulse node. To attach an event to any node (except decorators, conditions, actions), drag it from the node explorer (on the left) on a node in the graph (on the right), holding down the right mouse button.
To select an event, you must first select the node it is attached to and then left click the event itself.
To edit a node or event, it must be selected.
To delete a behaviour or folder from the node explorer, you can also press the delete key. (v1.2+)
You can also create new nodes by dragging an existing node using Ctrl and the left mouse button. (v1.2+)

Exceptions

Exceptions are implemented in the editor as conditions. Conditions have an attribute TreatAsException. If you enable it, the condition is visualised as an exception. Of course, your own plugin can handle exceptions differently.

UPDATED WIKI: Updating Under Windows Vista

dkollmann — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:57:36 GMT

When you had a previous version of Brainiac Designer installed, under Windows Vista, it might occur that some modified behaviours or workspaces are still the old ones. This is because of the compatibility files.

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Open the program folder of your Brainiac Designer installation. Normally that is C:\Program Files\Brainiac Designer.
Click the button "Compatibility Files" to switch to the corresponding folder.

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These files are loaded instead of the others. For example if the Design Mode workspace is not included in your list, simply delete this file so the new one is loaded.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

dkollmann — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:53:54 GMT

Change of License

Note

Controls

To load an existing behaviour, double click it in the the node explorer (on the left).
To drag the graph around, hold down the left mouse button on the graph and move your mouse.
To zoom in and out, scroll your mouse wheel over the graph.
To attach a new node, drag it from the node explorer (on the left) on a node in the graph (on the right). Arrows will appear which allow you to add the node in a specific location of the graph.
To delete a node from the graph, select it by left clicking it and press the delete key. Its children will not be deleted.
To delete a node from the graph as well as its children, select it by left clicking it and press Ctrl-Delete. (v1.2+)
To move a node in the graph, drag it on another node by holding down the right mouse button. Arrows will appear which allow you to place the node in a specific location of the graph.
When you place an event as a node, it will create an impulse node. To attach an event to any node (except decorators, conditions, actions), drag it from the node explorer (on the left) on a node in the graph (on the right), holding down the right mouse button.
To select an event, you must first select the node it is attached to and then left click the event itself.
To edit a node or event, it must be selected.
To delete a behaviour or folder from the node explorer, you can also press the delete key. (v1.2+)
You can also create new nodes by dragging an existing node using Ctrl and the left mouse button. (v1.2+)

Exceptions

UPDATED WIKI: Home

dkollmann — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:52:30 GMT

Change of License

Note

Controls

To load an existing behaviour, double click it in the the node explorer (on the left).
To drag the graph around, hold down the left mouse button on the graph and move your mouse.
To zoom in and out, scroll your mouse wheel over the graph.
To attach a new node, drag it from the node explorer (on the left) on a node in the graph (on the right). Arrows will appear which allow you to add the node in a specific location of the graph.
To delete a node from the graph, select it by left clicking it and press the delete key. Its children will not be deleted.
To delete a node from the graph as well as its children, select it by left clicking it and press Ctrl-Delete. (v1.2+)
To move a node in the graph, drag it on another node by holding down the right mouse button. Arrows will appear which allow you to place the node in a specific location of the graph.
When you place an event as a node, it will create an impulse node. To attach an event to any node (except decorators, conditions, actions), drag it from the node explorer (on the left) on a node in the graph (on the right), holding down the right mouse button.
To select an event, you must first select the node it is attached to and then left click the event itself.
To edit a node or event, it must be selected.
To delete a behaviour or folder from the node explorer, you can also press the delete key. (v1.2+)
You can also create new nodes by dragging an existing node using Ctrl and the left mouse button. (v1.2+)

Exceptions

CREATED RELEASE: Brainiac Designer v1.3 (May 12, 2008)

Mon, 12 May 2008 19:49:54 GMT

- Added support for workspaces.
- When clicking browse in the export dialogue, the folder browsed is the one entered in the textbox.
- Sub-referenced behaviours can be now be expanded as well. Expanding one will close all sub-sub-referenced behaviours.
- Removed Open Folder from node explorer as this folder is now determined by the workspace.
- Added a text file with the license.
- added Design Mode plugin which allows you to name each node and event as you like.
- the events now get updated as well when loading a behaviour
- the filename of a referenced behaviour should now always be stored correctly
- made paths of the included workspaces relative
- the workspace folder is now created if it does not exist
- adjusted measured label width for events so they stay centred
- when adding a new event, the event is automatically selected
- added new string list attribute which allows you to select from a list of suggested texts as well
- you can now zoom in further as some texts were too small to be read on a beamer.
- fixed that when adding new nodes, the new node was only selected if it was attached as a child to the target node.
- sub-referenced behaviours now show their events as well.
- sub-referenced impulses are now shown as well.
- you can now correctly add and remove children from a referenced behaviour.
- fixed a crash when adding a new node as a parent to a sub-referenced node which was not allowed.
- the displayed children from a referenced behaviour are no longer copied into the graph when the referenced behaviour is deleted.
- when a parent node is taller than the child nodes, the child nodes are now centred.

CLOSED ISSUE: Tall nodes have uncentred children

dkollmann — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:23:25 GMT

Nodes extended by many events have uncentred children.

Source code checked in

dkollmann — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:23:20 GMT

- the displayed children from a referenced behaviour are no longer copied into the graph when the referenced behaviour is deleted. - when a parent node is taller than the child nodes, the child nodes are now centred.

CLOSED ISSUE: Wrong Behaviour Marked As Being Modified

dkollmann — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:57:12 GMT

When attaching nodes to a referenced behaviour, the root behaviour gets marked as being modified and not the referenced one.

Source code checked in

dkollmann — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:57:00 GMT

- you can now correctly add and remove children from a referenced behaviour. - fixed a crash when adding a new node as a parent to a sub-referenced node which was not allowed.

CLOSED ISSUE: Changing the label in design mode does not update the text position

dkollmann — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:14:11 GMT

When changing the label of a node, the position of the text in the node is not updated.

Source code checked in

dkollmann — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:14:00 GMT

- when editing sub-referenced nodes, the nodes now get correctly displayed. - the label is no longer calculated twice for the design nodes. - sub-referenced nodes now inherit the event handlers from their original nodes.

CLOSED TASK: Show Impulses in structural view of sub-referenced behaviours

dkollmann — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:10:18 GMT

When the sub-referenced behaviours are shown, the impulses should be shown as well, otherwise the overall behaviour is not clear enough.

CLOSED ISSUE: Cannot expand all sub-referenced behaviour

dkollmann — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:10:01 GMT

Only the first sub-referenced behaviours can be expanded.

CLOSED ISSUE: Sub-referenced behaviour is displayed wrongly

dkollmann — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:09:38 GMT

When having many sub-referenced behaviours and expanding the first sub-referenced behaviour, the last sub-referenced behaviours get displayed wrongly.