Visual Programming Doesn’t Suck

Re:Visual Programming Doesn’t Suck by nineteen999 on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @10:56AM (#19036093)

I could be wrong but I believe the Blueprint assets are stored in a binary representation. So that rules out vanilla tools like patch/diff for the most part.

See the sibling poster, they did actually add a visual diff/merge tool in a much earlier version and I missed that.

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Re:Visual Programming Doesn’t Suck by infinite8s on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @01:57PM (#19038062)

Ascii is a binary representation. It's just that we've built up a lot of tooling around being to visualize/manipulate that representation. There's no reason that similar tooling couldn't arise for other binary representations

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Re:Visual Programming Doesn’t Suck by nineteen999 on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @04:49PM (#19039921)

I'm not really sure what your point is. The point is ASCII/UTF-8 are a binary representation that is easily parsed by humans, which is why we use it for writing code. Sure, if you want, dump both files with xxd and do a diff on that instead.

There's been ways to diff binary files forever. Doesn't mean it is a great idea to store source code in that manner though. With UE4 you're not really supposed to be able to edit the Blueprint "code" outside the UE4 Editor.

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