Verb Editor

The graph editor is where you build verbs. To open it, double-click any verb asset, or select one and click Edit graph in its inspector.

In Play Mode the running node lights up as the game plays, and you can edit the graph while it runs.

The toolbar

Button	What it does
Back	Returns to the verb you had open before.
Recent	Verbs you opened recently.
(verb name)	The asset the verb lives in and the verb itself. The dropdown selects or pings it, and lists the other verbs in the same asset.
Linked	Verbs this verb runs, and verbs that run it.
Find Verb	Searches every verb in the project.
Add Node	Searches for a node and adds it at the center of the view. Double-clicking the graph does the same.
Frame	Centers the view on the selected nodes, or resets it when nothing is selected. Shortcut: F.
Collapse	Moves the selected nodes into a new child verb, and puts a node that runs it in their place.
New Child Verb	ActionVerbs only. Creates an ActionVerb inside this asset, and a node here that runs it.
More	Opens the Narramancer window, and the graph editor preferences.

In Play Mode a second row, Watching, picks which running copy of the verb to follow. Its progress is what the graph highlights.

Mouse and keyboard

Input	Effect
Scroll wheel	Zoom in and out
Middle mouse button, drag	Pan
F	Frame the selection, or reset the view
Left click on a node	Select it
Left drag on empty space	Box-select the nodes inside
Left drag on a node	Move the selected nodes
Drag from an output port to an input port	Connect the two
Double-click empty space	Add a node by searching
Right click on empty space	Open the context menu: Search…, Create Child Action Verb, and the selection tools
Right click on a node	Open the node’s context menu

Adding nodes

Use Add Node, double-click the graph, or right-click empty space and choose Search…. Type part of a node’s name and pick it. The node appears where you clicked, or at the center of the view.

The right-click menu also lists every node by category, the same categories as the List of All Nodes.

Connecting nodes

To build a sequence, connect runnable nodes to each other. A runnable node has two special ports shaped like arrows: This Node on the left, which runs the node, and Then Run Node on the right, which runs the next node once this one finishes.

Drag from the first node’s output port and drop it on the second node’s input port.

Value ports connect the same way. Ports only connect when their types match, or are compatible.