Sequentior Graph Editor

Sequentior Graph Editor is the main window that is used to create sequential flows. Here you can add as many sequential nodes as you want to create your final flow of sequentials.

Note

Every Sequentior Graph Editor needs to have one and only one Start Node and it's added automatically when you open the Sequentior Graph Editor for the first time even though it's deleted manually.

Add New Sequential Node

To add a new sequential node to the graph, just right click an empty area with your mouse or click the Add Sequential button and a popup will appear.

Tip

You can also use the Shift+A shortcut to open the Create Sequential window.

Here select the Create Node menu item and a new window appears.

In this window, you can browse all the sequential nodes that can be added to the graph and they are all categorized and they have short descriptions.

Also, you can search for a sequential node by typing to the textbox on top of this window.

Tip

You can search by keywords of the sequentials as well as titles. For example when you search for "delete" it will also display "Destroy" sequential in the list.

Now click Debug and all the sequentials in Debug category will appear. There is only Log sequential in Debug category. Select it.

That's it! You've added a new sequential node to the graph.

Note

If you look at the gameobject now, you see that it has 2 child gameobjects with related sequential component added. Also you can see that the Sequential list of the Sequentior Manager component is filled with those gameobjects too.

Connect Sequentials

You've added the Log sequential node but currently that won't do anything because it's not connected yet to any other sequential node.

The entry point of the Sequentior Graph Editor is Start Sequential and you need to connect the first sequential node to the Start Sequential.

But how to connect sequential nodes?

Every sequential nodes have two common pins. One is NEXT pin and the other is IN pin.

Note

Start Sequential node does not have an IN pin because it's the entry node and no other node can connect to it's IN pin.

So, NEXT pin will be connected to the next sequence (sequential node) IN pin so the Sequentior Manager knows which sequential node to be started next.

Now, click and hold the left mouse button on the NEXT pin of the Start Sequential and drag it to the IN pin of the Log sequential.

That's it! Now it's connected and Seqentior Manager knows which sequential to start next after the Start Sequential.

Summary

So, whenever you add a new sequential node, connect another node's NEXT pin to this newly added sequential's IN pin and it's ready to play.

Disconnect

The best part of the Graph Editor is that you can reshape the whole flow by disconnecting existing ones and reconnect them to another nodes.

To disconnect, righ click the connection wire (edge) and choose Delete.

Navigating Graph Editor

Zoom

You can zoom in and out the graph editor by using scroll wheel of your mouse.

Panning

You can pan the graph by clicking and holding the middle button (scroll wheel button) of your mouse and drag mouse in any direction.

Remove a Sequential

You can right click on a sequential node and choose Delete

Warning

Do not delete the auto generated sequential child gameobjects manually from Hierarchy! This will break the Sequentior Graph Editor. If you somehow deleted a child gameobject manually then you need to remove the item in the Sequential list of the Sequentior Manager component too, then the graph editor works again as expected.

Test your first Sequentior

Now, just enter a text to the Log property of the Log Sequential and then enter Play mode in your game.

If everything works as expected, you'll see the log text in Console.

Collapse All and Expand All

When you have lots of sequential nodes on the graph, this might affect the performance of editor and it might slow down. In these cases, you can collapse all the nodes by clicking the Collapse All button. This way, because Unity won't draw all the sequential node properties, it will speed up again. You can work on a single or a few nodes at a time while the others are collapsed.

Expand All button expands all the nodes again.