#Nodebox on ubuntu install#

While NodeBox 3 satisfies the previous prime directives, #3 is where NodeBox 3 fails. Prime Directive #3: An external developer can successfully understand and enhance the system. There is a wealth of information that allows anyone to create what they want. The forum on their website also allows users to ask questions to any problems they might encounter. Their documentation includes tutorials, screencasts, concepts, and an expert guide that allows creation of a new node. NodeBox 3’s documentation can be easily found at their homepage. Typing these in the command line was a smooth process and Aptitude was able to handle all dependencies.

#Nodebox on ubuntu install#

The Ubuntu installation instructions posted on their GitHub page is as follows: sudo apt-get install git-core openjdk-6-jdk ant Hello World! Prime Directive #2: An external user can successfully install and use the system. This allows a “what you see is what you get” type of workflow in creation of the graphic.

The graphic will dynamically change as the user enters new information into the nodes. The left window of the UI is a graphic render of the representation of the data in the nodes. To decide which node information the user wants to view, the user just needs to left click on a node. The top right window of the UI allows the user to manually tune specific data of a node. Performing the link is also easily done by just clicking and dragging from an output of a node to an input to a node. Each node has an input and output that allows users to modify their design by simply linking the nodes together from input to output. This pops up a window of all the nodes available, such as text boxes, shapes, and node modifiers. Creating a node can be easily done by just Right-Click -> New Node.

The bottom right of the UI is a window that allows creation, modification, and deletion of nodes. The UI of the program is well organized and allows the user to focus on a specific object at any one time.