Pre-Purchase Questions

[indieParticipant]

I’m curious about a few things. I actually own Behavior Designer and Playmaker. Both are quite revolutionary and can feel great to use. However, I’m seeing NodeCanvas and it makes me curious.

What is NodeCanvas vs. FlowCanvas?
-> I saw you saying that FlowCanvas can have access to much lower-level parts of code but can you provide me any further ideas/examples as to how they differ?

Furthermore, how do these potentially differ from something such as Behavior Designer?
-> Do you think it would even be worth it purchasing one of those if I already have Behavior Designer?

[rixter757Participant]

Hey indie,

Have a look at this link, answers your questions & a lot more:

https://flowcanvas.paradoxnotion.com/topic/bt-vs-fsm-vs-vs/

I personally bought NodeCanvas after deciding to go forward with FlowCanvas – they integrate perfectly together, whereas Behavior Designer is the competition & the dev there doesn’t want to add integration.

Rix

[indieParticipant]

Ty

[GavalakisKeymaster]

Thanks @rixter757 for helping out. This post is quite helpful 🙂

@indie, If you have any other questions feel free to ask. In a nutshell, NodeCanvas has both FSMSs (Playmaker) and Behaviour Trees (Behaviour Designer), as well as Dialogue Trees in one consistent package, meant to work seamlessly together.
FlowCanvas is a much more freeform event-based visual scripting system in the likes of Unreal blueprints. Rixter’s post explains that quite well.
The big benefit of working with NodeCanvas+FlowCanvas is that all these systems (FMS, BehaviourTrees, Dialogue Trees, FlowScripts) work seamlessly and consistently together.

Cheers!

[indieParticipant]

I bought FlowCanvas and NodeCanvas but cannot find how to get a panel like the one shown here

[GavalakisKeymaster]

Thanks a lot for getting the tools!
To open up this browser, please tap “Space” keyboard key.
Let me know if that works for you.
Thanks again.

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