May I present.. CGF!

So I've created a prototype for my next project, the Compilable Graph Format. Pretty generalized name, but hey it covers it!

First of all I want to thank the creator of Graph, LogicalError, my own UI sort of sucked, so I'm glad I found this great free library.

So what is CGF? CGF is a visual coding/scripting system, used to draw your code in a visual graph format and then compile it to a file.
My first project will be compiling .hlsl files, which I'm already moving steadily forward with.
This is an example file compiled by the program:

uniform sampler2D Var0 : register({REGISTER_NUM});
struct ConnData
{
   float4 Var1       : POSITION;
   float2 Var2        : TEXCOORD0;
   float2 Var3        : TEXCOORD1;
   float2 Var4        : TEXCOORD2;
   float2 Var5        : TEXCOORD3;
   float3 Var6   : TEXCOORD4;
};
float4 main(ConnData IN) : COLOR0
{
   const float3 Var7 = {0,0,1};
   const float3 Var8 = {0,1,0};
   float4 Var10 = lerp(Var7,Var8,{VALUE}});
   float4 Var12 = lerp(Var0,Var10,{VALUE}});
}

As you can see some fields still need to be parsed properly, but we're getting there!

But can this only be used for .hlsl files?

No, I intend to refactor all the .hlsl specific code out of the program, and all nodes are added through dynamically loaded modules, so you can extend the program with all the nodes you want.
Lastly I'm going to generalize the UI enough for it to be usable with most languages.

So the steps needed to add a new output language is these:

1. Write a compiler, that implements the Compiler interface.
2. Write some libraries with module classes that implement the IModule interface. (Each module represents one type of nodes).
3. Copy the new dll's to the "modules" and the "compilers" folders.

Pretty straightforward IMO.

So obligatory video of my latest prototype:

Current feature list:

• Save/load system
• Dynamic run-time loading of modules (i.e. nodes)
• WIP .hlsl output