Filter Forge - Planning on removing some of my filters from library

uberzev

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http://www.filterforge.com/filters/au...page1.html

DEFINITELY REMOVING
uberSTAR - Superseded by Polygon component
Polygon v2.0 - Superseded by Polygon component
Any Angle Gradient v2.5 - Superseded by Gradient passed through Rotate
Circular Angle Gradient v4.5 - Superseded by Free Gradient component
Proportional Gradient - Superseded by Free Gradient component
Maximum / Minimum - Superseded by Maximum / Minimum components

POSSIBLY REMOVING
Midtone Contrast v1.2 - Not sure how useful this is

PROBABLY NOT REMOVING (just adding warning that I'm too lazy to update them...)
uberOOZE
uberLENS 2.5

In addition I plan on updating all remaining filters so that they no longer contain obsolete components.

Comments/concerns welcome. smile:)

Posted: June 11, 2012 11:58 pm

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Morgantao

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In addition I plan on updating all remaining filters so that they no longer contain obsolete components.

This seems to be somewhat of a fasion these days. May I ask what's wrong with having FF1 and FF2 compatible filters on the library?

Posted: June 12, 2012 1:44 am

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uberzev

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This seems to be somewhat of a fasion these days. May I ask what's wrong with having FF1 and FF2 compatible filters on the library?

Nothing wrong. I just like to keep things simple.

Posted: June 12, 2012 2:50 am

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Crapadilla

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May I ask what's wrong with having FF1 and FF2 compatible filters on the library?

+1

uber, the filters you listed may contain "old" techniques, but they're still of interest to the FF community. Should you really decide to delete them fr om the library, I'd suggest that we create a "legacy snippets" forum thread wh ere we can preserve these kinds of historically interesting techniques.

--- Crapadilla says: "Damn you, stupid redundant feature requests!" ;)

Posted: June 12, 2012 2:50 am

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uberzev

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Good idea dilla.

A wiki page might make even more sense.

Posted: June 12, 2012 3:21 am

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Ghislaine

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I agree with you Dilla and uber. Excellent idea !

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Posted: June 12, 2012 8:59 am

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Mongoose King

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The thing is, there's still people out there using FF1 who will suddenly find that all the useful snippets have gone, and then they cry.

Release the Mongoose!

Posted: June 12, 2012 11:08 am

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Kraellin

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i tend to agree with mongoose king.

If wishes were horses... there'd be a whole lot of horse crap to clean up!

Craig

Posted: June 12, 2012 11:29 am

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Morgantao

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i tend to agree with mongoose king.

Yep, me too.

In fact, when I create a new filter I try (If I remember smile:evil:

) to do it in FF2, so people who haven't upgraded to FF3 will still have something new, and a reason to keep coming.
I only release an FF3 filter if it has an FF3 exlusive component in it. Or if I forgot and made it in FF3 and it's too complex to rebuild again in FF2... smile:cry:

Imagine all the gas stations decided not to sell petrol anymore. I mean, there's natural gas, there's electric cars. Petrol is so FF2. Let's get rid of it smile;)

Posted: June 12, 2012 3:00 pm

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Orteil

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^ What they said. I was stuck on FF1 for the longest time, and snippets like yours helped me out on many occasions. I'm not sure if removing "obsolete" filters is necessary !

Posted: June 13, 2012 11:11 am

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Ghislaine

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I'm working on a filter based on the Spiral arm uber's filter. I have changed all the obsolete gradients and all the older checkers and this is ok because it does not change the result. But I need the obsolete offsets because with the newest offset, this change completely the result. I'm creating a spiral with dots. If I cannot conserved the obsolete offset, I will have to say googbye to my spiral dots.

I think that we must have the choice to work with obsolete components.

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Posted: June 13, 2012 1:37 pm

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Morgantao

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Gigi, the new offset acts differently than the obsolete one, but you can fix the valuesof the input and get the same result with the new one. I'm sure uberzev, or any of the other old timers can help you with it.

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I think that we must have the choice to work with obsolete components

There is an option to do that.
In the main FF window (not the editor), go to tools > options..., and inder the "Filter editor" tab check the "Show the Obsolete category on the components bar" option.
Now you will be able to use all the oldies smile:)

Posted: June 13, 2012 3:43 pm

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Ghislaine

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Thanks for this info. smile:)

I have already asked for help from uber. So I think that he is working on. smile:)

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Posted: June 13, 2012 3:54 pm

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