Visual Family tree editor
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Visual Family tree editor
Content Addition · Family trees · Created by Eluo
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family-tree visual graph intuitive lineage modular
When trying to build a family tree, you have to open and close many articles while adding relationships, and you do not have a constant visual reference to the whole tree as you mark those relationships. For example, you have a list of gods that you want to build a family tree for, and you have to open and close all of them while adding lineage, and can easily forget what you've added to who on the way, and then you have to open and close them once again. This is not very intuitive, when a family tree is supposed to be very visual (like it is when you go and have a look at the embedded tree in an article).
The visual editor would function much like the map; you would have a 'blank canvas' with a separate window, which you can use to search characters. You search a name, click on the character on the window (you could quickly see the base description of it etc with one click), and drag-and-drop it into the canvas.
Then, you add additional characters with the search window as well, and then either visually draw the lines with a separate tool, or drag character 1 on top of character 2, and choose their relationship from a drop down menu. Special features of the relationship could still be editable only from the article itself.
Visual editor like this could also be used to build evolution trees for species, for evolution of spells (fire -> fire bolt -> fire arrow & fire ball etc) and to amp up navigation building, as it works a lot in the same way (parent article etc).
I think a feature like this would make building a family tree much more intuitive and visually pleasing, and much more faster.
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by Pete Nelson
on 2022-01-28 06:51Great idea! It would make creating family trees and other types of tree-structured relationships much more intuitive and faster. These editor capability could be generalized (trees, hierarchies, graphs, etc.)
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by Eli Pendragon
on 2022-01-28 01:32There are many parts of worldanvil where the amount of navigation and page loading needed is excessive, and they'd benefit from an interface that is faster to use and requires less clicks and less time, the family tree editor is one of them, but it's not like the family tree is where we spend all of our time. Many relationships have this problem, if this was tackled, I'd prefer to see it tackled generically, especially knowing the development cost would be high.
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by hyperstructure
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by scholarmage
on 2022-01-25 07:01This would certainly make relationships much easier to manage, but I suspect that coding this kind of an interface into a web page would require vastly more time & complexity than it's actually worth.
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by A Cute Ooze
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by Vantaj
on 2022-01-24 01:45I would definitely have used something like this when I was setting up my campaign. All the player characters are related, but not in simple ways. One is a cousin who cannot appear on the same tree view as the others.
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by BurningGod
on 2022-01-21 02:29This is a great idea, it would also let marriages etc also show in the family tree without needing a child to "link" the parents
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by mastergentleman
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by imly2k
on 2022-01-19 18:30I think some of this may be addressed in an upcoming update, but I'll put some coins in just in case.
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by Eluo
on 2022-01-18 17:49
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