Wire routing

NodeCraft draws wires in three main ways. Choose one from the Routing section of the NodeCraft dropdown.

DefaultUnreal's ownUnreal's native curved splines, for when you want the stock feel.

ManhattanAvoids nodesStraight lines with 90° turns. Wires sharing a path fan into parallel lanes.

SubwayAvoids nodes45° diagonals and straight runs, like a transit map. Tidy and easy to follow.

The three styles

Style	What it looks like	Routes around nodes
Default	Unreal’s native curved splines	No (Unreal’s own behaviour)
Manhattan	Straight lines with 90° turns	Yes
Subway	Straight lines with 45° and 90° turns, like a transit map	Yes

Manhattan and Subway look for a clear path around the nodes in the way. If the only way around is a long detour, they go straight through instead, because a short wire crossing a node is easier to read than one that wanders across the graph.

Wires are designed to stay still while you pan and zoom. They only re-route when nodes actually move.

Sketch

The Routing menu also has Sketch, a hand-drawn pen stroke made for the Atelier theme. It goes straight from pin to pin rather than around nodes.

Theme Default vs. pinning a style

Each theme comes with the routing style it was designed around:

Theme	Routing
Neon	Subway
Liquid Glass	Subway
Command	Subway
Aetherial	Manhattan in Blueprints, Subway in materials
Atelier	Sketch
UE_Default	Default

With Theme Default selected, routing follows the theme and changes when you switch theme.

Selecting a specific style pins it. The pinned style stays through theme switches and editor restarts, because the way you like your wires is usually a personal preference rather than part of a look. To go back to following the theme, select Theme Default.

Blueprint and Material graphs each have their own routing setting.

Wire spacing

When several wires would run along the same path, Wire Spacing spreads them into parallel lanes so each wire stays visible:

• Off: every wire follows its exact route, so shared paths overlap.
• 1: 6-pixel lanes. This is the default.
• 2: 12-pixel lanes.

Only the turns move. Straight runs stay straight, and a node with a single output keeps its wire exactly where it was. Spacing applies to Manhattan and Subway wires.

Wire look

Wire thickness, corner rounding, glow and colour are part of each theme. You can change them in the theme’s Routing settings. See Theme settings.