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Hi,

It has confused me for years. The left and right sides of a splitter depend on the splitter orientation. I never select them right from the first try

it is ok when a splitter is oriented from bottom to top, and is the opposite when a splitter is oriented from top to bottom. In vertical orientation, it is even worse.

Maybe it is better to call inputs and outputs in some side-agnostic way like A and B?

What happens if you blueprint a splitter with priority to left/A, and place it rotated 90/180/270 degrees? Should the splitter's settings or GUI's labels change?

Anyways, one rotation-invariant way to call them is port and starboard.

Did you know that the "left bank" and "right bank" of a river refer to the sides when looking directly downstream? It's the only way to properly refer to which side of a bridge you're on when the river makes twists and turns.

Muche wrote: Sat Jan 18, 2025 7:51 pm What happens if you blueprint a splitter with priority to left/A, and place it rotated 90/180/270 degrees? Should the splitter's settings or GUI's labels change?

No matter how a splitter is rotated the labels are always the same. That's the clue.

robot256 wrote: Sat Jan 18, 2025 8:46 pm Did you know that the "left bank" and "right bank" of a river refer to the sides when looking directly downstream? It's the only way to properly refer to which side of a bridge you're on when the river makes twists and turns.

Yes, I know. And that is the problem too. When I am in a new city, I always need to recall the direction (and it takes time) of the river to understand where the left- and right-side is

GPFault wrote: Sat Jan 18, 2025 9:59 pm

Muche wrote: Sat Jan 18, 2025 7:51 pm What happens if you blueprint a splitter with priority to left/A, and place it rotated 90/180/270 degrees? Should the splitter's settings or GUI's labels change?

No matter how a splitter is rotated the labels are always the same. That's the clue.

Labels don't change.

However, what you seem to want is where both labels and apparent splitter's priority changes.

Muche wrote: Sat Jan 18, 2025 10:59 pm Snip

Yep, which then makes it impossible to reliably copy-paste splitter settings.