Left and Right on the Splitter priority

[GPFault]

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?

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[Muche]

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.

[robot256]

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.

[GPFault]

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.

[GPFault]

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

[Muche]

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.

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Labels don't change.

However, what you seem to want is

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where both labels and apparent splitter's priority changes.

[computeraddict]

Snip

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