When I hear "direction" when used to describe a vector, I anticipate an absolute vector pointing in the direction provided by its elements. So with SplineNode.Direction, I failed to realize that it requires a world coordinate.
Rather than changing this entirely and breaking previous code, adding an additional property for the same field, LocalDirection, which subtracts the position of the SplineNode and gives the direction in local space, could be handy. We would still only have one direction field, but two ways of accessing and changing it based on the context.
When I hear "direction" when used to describe a vector, I anticipate an absolute vector pointing in the direction provided by its elements. So with
SplineNode.Direction, I failed to realize that it requires a world coordinate.Rather than changing this entirely and breaking previous code, adding an additional property for the same field,
LocalDirection, which subtracts the position of the SplineNode and gives the direction in local space, could be handy. We would still only have onedirectionfield, but two ways of accessing and changing it based on the context.