[Feature Request]: Better Dependency Lines Settings

[LegendaryRylex]

Mod

FTB Quests

Description

I would like a way to configure all dependency lines leading to a quest individually.

Describe the solution you'd like

As you see, I'm clearly no UI designer, but something like this should be enough.

• You should be able to select what quests to toggle lines on or off for,
• You should be able to invert the selection of quests to allow for easier management when there are a lot of quests (Look at Fargo's QL below)

Describe alternatives you've considered

What am I even talking about?

Let's say this is our questline:

Oak -> Planks is the main progression, and the other blocks are just extra options for the player.
Currently, there are different ways to make those lines dependency lines disappear:

Remove them as dependencies:
This isn't good because now those quests are seen as always available.

Hide dependency lines from the extra quests:
This kind of solves the issue, but now there is no 'blue line' when hovering over the extra quests.

Hide dependent lines on the main quest (Oak Log):
This is how most lines are hidden, as the lines become visible when you hover over the relevant quests

Onto the issue at hand

What if I only want the main quest line to show, from the Oak Log -> Oak Planks, while retaining the blue lines on the extras?

The workaround I managed to come up with is to have a hidden quest behind the main quest, that controls the dependency lines.
With this method, we get the blue dependency lines when hovering over quests without having to have lines always on the screen.

The actual example

This is how the Fargo's Talisman Questline dependencies are currently designed

Obviously this is atrocious.
Hiding all the lines shows a better picture of how it actually works under the hood.

The Main Quest nodes have a hidden quest under them that shows the lines to the next Main Quest node, while the actual Main Quest nodes have dependency lines turned off so they only show when hovered over.

This way we get both, the benefit of having the blue lines on hover, while also having the main quest lines be visible to players at all times.

The issues

1. Because both quests have to be linked so they complete at the same time, there is a layout overlap because of the reward system
   

2. After the update to Fargo's, people who had already completed certain quests can't progress until they complete the dependency of the hidden quest as well: Legendary Talisman Base Quest Not Completing FTB-Modpack-Issues#6633

[desht]

Added in 2101.1.3 release. A more comprehensive connection editor is already pretty much covered by #503, which is already in the projects list.