Thank you for helping us test Bolt 2!

Alphas are frequent unstable preview releases. Each alpha will add new features towards the final featureset of Bolt 2. You can learn more about Bolt 2 in our Blog Post, our Design Document or our Roadmap.

It's happening. Thanks to built-in integration with Demigiant's industry-standard DOTween library, you can now tween any field or property in Bolt. That's right: everything is tweenable out of the box, from the entire Unity codebase to third-party plugins and even your custom scripts.

Tweening a property is as easy as setting it. Simply look for "Tween (Something)", like Tween Position, for example. The tween unit will allow you to specify the target value, the duration and the easing. Tweens have two control outputs: Exit, triggered right after you start the tween, and On Complete, triggered when the value reaches the target you specified.

You can also enable the Advanced mode on any unit to access the full configuration options of a tween (like looping, update type, etc.) and a lot more callbacks (like On Pause, On Rewind, etc).

Last but not least, the tween unit returns its created Tween object as an output, so you can easily access the full DOTween API.

Creating Super Nodes just got a lot easier. With the new Collapse Tool, you can convert your selection to a nested graph in one click.

You can open the collapse dialog by:

• The toolbar (first button on the left)
• The context menu
• Ctrl+G or Cmd+G on Mac

The dialog gives you two options: collapsing to an Embed or to a Macro.

• Collapse to Embed: Creates a super node inline, useful for saving space in your bigger manager graphs.
• Collapse to Macro: Creates the super node as a macro asset, allowing you to reuse the graph in multiple places.

Bolt will intelligently create inputs and outputs for you based on what ports were connected to elements outside the collapsed graph. Then, for additional ports, simply use the drag & drop promotion to create them.

If you collapse a group, its title and comment will automatically be used for the nested graph.

The fuzzy finder got a lot smarter at figuring what you might want to create next. We redesigned the workflow to minimize the number of clicks and typing you have to do until you find the option you want. Concretely, this means:

• Types on the current game object are now displayed directly at the root
• Literals and constructors of the matching type are showed first, at the root
• Math and logic operators are shown right below
• Every compatible property on any component of the current game object is included
• Static initializers for that type (like Identity for Quaternion) are displayed last

Here's how it looks in action. Here, we're trying to set the current position of the object to that of another object named Target. We do this in less than 7 clicks without even having to use the search at all!

The graph toolbar underwent a pretty big makeover.

Each action is now shown as an icon, similar to Unity's play mode commands.

We're bringing two major new ways of sharing your graphs: Clips and the Share Tool.

Clips little bits of magic text that get copied to your clipboard whenever you copy something in a Bolt graph. They can be pasted back in the graph window to recreate the original nodes they copied. Since it's just text, it can easily be pasted anywhere on the internet, for example in forums, on GitHub Gists or on Pastebin.

The Share Tool is a new one-click button in the Toolbar that makes it easy to distribute your graphs online. When you click it, Bolt will:

1. Create a HD screenshot of your graph or selection at full resolution (goodbye, zoomed out screenshots!)
2. Create a Clip of your graph or selection
3. Upload the clip to a new Gist on GitHub
4. Upload the screenshot to imgur
5. Add the link to your clip in the imgur post description
6. Copy the link to the imgur post in your clipboard

Here's how a shared section of the Roll-a-ball tutorial looks: https://imgur.com/lb2QkWw

The fuzzy window now shows breadcrumbs for each level of navigation, allowing for easier backtracking.

More importantly, you can now search from within a single category instead of searching the whole tree. This makes looking for members on a single type very easy, for example.

We're claiming back the space that the graph inspector window takes in your layout. To replace it, we're introducing two new types of popups on nodes:

• Warnings: When hovering any node with warnings on errors, they will be displayed inline right below.
• Inspect: By choosing Inspect... from the context menu or hitting Q on your keyboard, the graph inspector popup for the currently hovered node will show up inline. This is the full featured inspector, allowing you not only to read the documentation about the ports, but also change any configuration option like inputs and outputs.

Most bugs reported in Alpha 2 were fixed.

A bunch of smaller workflow improvements also made their way in Alpha 2. For example:

• String literals now support multiple lines
• You can now type literals like numbers, strings and booleans directly in the fuzzy finder to create them
• Unit port definitions now have options for Allows Null, Default to Self and Primary
• Resizing now works while zoomed out
• Documentation generation and unit comparison can now be configured in the new Extractor options panel

See the changelog below for the full list of changes!

1. Download Unity 2018.3
2. Create a new project
3. Open Edit > Project Settings...
4. Select the Player tab, scroll down to Configuration
5. Set Scripting Runtime Version to .NET 4.x Equivalent
6. Set Api Compatibility Level to .NET 4.x
7. Download and import Bolt
8. Restart Unity (Important)
9. Follow the Setup Wizard
10. Open the Bolt windows under Window > Bolt

If you already have a Bolt 2 Alpha installed:

1. Overwrite the files with the new package
2. Open the extractor (Tools > Bolt > Extractor...)
3. Click Reset to include new default types like Tween
4. Run a Full Extract

You can report bugs for Bolt 2 alphas in the Forum as usual.

Make sure your bug report has:

• The Bolt 2 tag checked (important!)
• Bolt, Unity and .NET versions indicated
• Stack trace of the error, if any.
  For realtime C# preview, click the message to log the stack trace to the console.
• Reproduction steps or graph screenshots, if applicable.