In a previous post, we mentioned a new smart suggestion feature that we were working on to speed up circuit creation. We’re bringing a similar system into the Rec Room app that can be used with the Maker Pen.
To use smart circuit suggestions, use the connect tool to select and drag out from the desired port on the circuit.
Hold the selected port in an empty space for a few seconds to spawn the smart circuit menu.
For right now, the smart circuit menu will recommend circuits that you have recently used. You can scroll through the options without releasing the selection, and once you’ve found the circuit you need, select it from the list to spawn it.
If you do not have recently used circuits, you can instead quickly use the search bar for what you need.
We’re continuing to look into improvements to your circuits workflow. Please let us know what quality of life changes you’re most interested in the this forum post.
At first, before this week’s update, it did suggest me some chips (the suggestions weren’t good but there was something) and now, despite using it a little bit, searching for my chips in that popup window and selecting them, it always shows empty.
Have you had a chance to submit a bug report in game or through our help desk? I’m pretty sure you shouldn’t be seeing something empty but we’d need to know what to do to reproduce the issue
Yeah! There’s some good ideas here I think we’ve been considering but we wanted to get this out as soon as we could to get feedback like this. I’ve forwarded your suggestions to the team. Thanks for posting-- welcome to the forums!
Would be nice if I could make the menu pop-up instant (Drag wire into the open, let go, menu spawns), as currently I have gotten so used to the maker pen menu that it is faster for me to open search and search for the chips I want
Another issue for me is the menu seems to have alot of input delay, and is weird to use on screenmode, maybe an option for automatically opening the search bar when the menu is spawned? I dont want to move my camera around to select things
I think this system would be fastest for me (On screenmode) if I the menu opened when I dragged a wire into the open, automatically entered me into the search bar, and automatically spawned the first result if I pressed Enter or closed if I pressed Escape
As for VR, the menu can probably stay as is, and I’d probably keep the options for opening when dragging into open AND for automatically entering search when the menu opens
An issue I’m running into now is, when the menu spawns by dragging a wire into the open and letting go of click so it spawns, the SFX for the wire dragging continues until I interact with something else (This same bug occurs very often when wiring or moving objects gets interrupted by something else)
I did submit a bug report in game a few hours ago. The box to write comments really doesn’t allow a lot of characters though.
Would it be better to go through the help desk to send log files? (I’m assuming the in game report already include some log files?)