Function Flow Drawing Prototype | Blender Hacking

Dalai Felinto shows the process of hacking the node link draw system to find a way to do dashed lines. This is part of the Geometry Nodes project, and the outcome of the video is a prototype to be finalized as a patch later.

- The task is: https://developer.blender.org/T91563
- The initial patch with the diamond draw is: https://developer.blender.org/D12584
- Data Flow and Function Flow explained: https://code.blender.org/2021/08/attributes-and-fields/
- The final patch is: https://developer.blender.org/D12602
- Final commit: https://developer.blender.org/rBff7e67afd5de2d0ce6614ecfda9a70735a2479ba

Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Introduction, test file, fields and function flow
0:18:31 - Beautiful colorful noodles
0:37:12 - First hardcoded dashed line
0:48:24 - Math visualization / debug
1:00:21 - Dashed lines everywhere :)
1:04:30 - Ton comes into the room
1:08:00 - Conclusions
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