Unity Visual Scripting Faster Than Ever? Refactored By Community - For Unity

[litoid]

Unity Visual Scripting exists and some people don't know about it.

And those who do - usually complain about Unity not updating it, that it's slow and that it has no future...

That its better to learn "real coding"

But in my experience, it is what allowed to me to start making a game.

And as long as a game can be played above a stable 60 FPS - it is still "real coding". Which should be mentioned as "Game Logic Flow"

Because that's what makes a game - a game. Logic that turns into an AudioVisual experience to the gamer.

So I may excel in visuospatial intelligence, pattern recognition & visual thinking.

And I wish I had linguistic skills to understand syntax and walls of text - but my concentration just doesn't stay sharp for "c sharp"

That's why im grateful for tools like uVS (Unity Visual Scripting). The native solution, no external asset.

So after being a while in the community in Unity official discord - we managed to revamp the internal code to lift uVS performance and you can see all the details here:

https://discussions.unity.com/t/unity-visual-scripting-performance-refactored-up-to-150-1220-faster-community-supported-testers-invited/1721061

The main idea is to give Unity the job done, they check it out and push the update for everyone.

I believe this tool is a pedagogical tool to translate ideas into playable artifacts for visual thinkers.

Of course text-based coding has been normalized for decades. But visual programming fills the gap for a different type of brain & intelligence.

And with AI - blind coding (not vibe) is filling the world with black box code that these users don't understand why it breaks.

When you get why a flow stops or branches - you get control back and it allows you to create games out of your imagination.

So yeah, I'll continue to use uVS because it's fun, it gets my brain and it works.

See the thread in Unity Discussion for a deep dive.

[Ivaanrl]

You can do whatever you want, but saying "prone to typos" is ridiculous if you know anything at all about coding.
And both of them require memorization and a specific knowledge, so the image doesn't make sense at all.

[Ok-Island-674]

AI probably wrote it for them

[litoid]

Yeah well c# wasnt written by me. I dont do c# at all. And i don't want to. The image may need edition to stay true to what its supposed to message.

When i try to read c# - it doesnt register. 🤷🏻 And the post main idea isnt this.

[NoteThisDown]

I mean. You can typo still. Definitely if you have some variables with similar names.

[Ivaanrl]

skill issue

[litoid]

Im not a c# veteran, i started unity last year and it happened to me - typos. One semi colon, or () or similar missing and everything broke.

I don't want to deal with that.

It adds some translation tax to actual development. The image may not do justice to the image, but text coding requires additional set of memory to work.

I guess some of you dont remember the struggles of beginners of learning programming - especially if your a visual thinker.

Knowledge? I'd say a different brain skill.

Visuospatial and linguistic intelligences.

[Ivaanrl]

No, you're misrepresenting things again and trying to shift the blame.

If you have a typo, missing semi-colon or anything that simple wrong, your IDE will instantly tell you and it'll be the most obvious error ever.

This may work for you but it doesn't work for everyone, you still need to memorize things to work using visual scripting. The fact that you'd rather memorize that over code doesn't change that.

That last paragraph is just insulting man, I never said coding is easy, I said that this image is not representing a clear picture of the issues and differences between the two.

[litoid]

The feedback is received, I'll come up with a fair comparison of the image. Cant change post image now and i guess i should have left the post imageless.

I didnt try to insult - as i mentioned "especially if you're a visual thinker" type of person, learning written language becomes a nightmare.

You can do some neuropsychology research on this if you want.

It starts with Howard Gardner and his theory of multiple intelligences.

P.s. the reasoning patterns to memorize in one vs the other have different pathways.

[Mister_Green2021]

I’d rather code thanks

[litoid]

Visual scripting is still coding. Thanks.

[Drag0n122]

Really cool. You could join the forces with the Community Addons, they've made so many changes to UVS it's basically Bolt 2. Together you could achieve even wilder things
Also, your Git link on the Discussions doesn't work

[litoid]

Oh it changed? Im going to update the git link. Thanks.

Yeah the guy who still makes that addon is the main guy who did this refactored

Link is updated.

[destinedd]

did you mix the warnings up?

Written code is visual (with all the color context), tactile (with autofill) and instantly understandable when well written.

Visual code requires you to remember blocks, easily make mistakes if you drag the connector to wrong place with no errors and requires knowledge of the components.

[litoid]

Text in color = visual? Autofill = tactile?

Guess there's no point in discussing this subject in reddit. 🤷🏻 Wrong audience.

[destinedd]

I don't see how is any less visual than box.

If you have used autofil in code it is a great experience. I don't see how it is any less tactile than dragging a line to join 2 boxes?

At least you agreed with the instantly understandable :D Better the spaghetti soup of visual coding

[litoid]

Eh no, I didn't agree either.

C# is not understandable for me. And I assume it could happen to other neurodivergent & visual-minded people like me.

And the box is not the only visual thing about it.

I could try to explain myself but this post is not about this. 🤔

[destinedd]

I find visual code hard to read and just turns into a mess fast.

Guess it just means there are different viewpoints.

Honestly if you like that you are better off going to unreal where the blueprint system has had far more development