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Ramlyn
Ramlyn

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Sometimes, creating a filter, it happens that we must make exactly something that we have already done in another of our filters.
We may re-make it from zero if what we have to do is not much.
If instead it is a lot of work, it is smarter to simply copy that part from our other filter.

Well, doing this, I have recently saw that copying Groups generates strange errors.
There is surely a reason for these errors, but I don't get it.

Some groups, once copied in another filter, appear completely changed.

Other Groups were ok in the first filter and, once copied in the second, they show an error ( the red circle with exclamation mark ) even before to connect them to the new filter.

Sincerely, because they are from my own filters, I can say that I didn't apply any setting that I didn't know how to control.
I don't understand why they change.
They are Groups that were not receiving any input from the other filter. So there is noting that was disconnected.

A practical example ?
My filter Oni Grin : https://www.filterforge.com/filters/12581.html
Select the whole filter except the result.
Then copy it in my other filter Paillettes Paint : https://www.filterforge.com/filters/12635.html.
You get an error in the two Bombers. Why?
The whole filter is copied. If it was ok before, why not ok anymore?
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Ramlyn
Ramlyn

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The error of this example is : "Connection Warning. The subtree of this Particle input includes size-independent components...." etc. etc.
If that Group has a mistake, I don't see any reason why the mistake only appears if I copy the Group in another filter and instead it has no mistakes in the original filter.

But it is not all.

Let's suppose that I really did some strange setting in my original filter.

In my second filter we have the good luck that it also uses a Bomber.
Well, let's select any of the groups that give error.
Let's connect this group with the Bomber of Paillettes Paint and.......... it gives no error mark.
So I got completely confused.

A group has no error in the original filter.
I copy it, together with its own Bomber ( and all its connections ), in a second filter and suddenly I get an error without changing anything.
So something should be wrong in the group.
Instead, connecting it with another Bomber.... no more error. Uh??
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ThreeDee
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Same result if you delete all the components in the filter and then undo.

Something to do with the internal numbering of the groups, perhaps?

(Then again, I'm not even sure why your original filter doesn't give the particle adapter warning although it has no Particle Adapter component there.)
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Ramlyn
Ramlyn

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Thanks ThreeDee. I don't know too.
For example, yesterday it was the first time that a Bomber gave me an error when I connected a Color Control to a particle. Until now I did it many times and no error. I saw it in other filters too, and there was no error. As I said before, there is surely a reason, but I don't know what is.

I have never used any Particle Adapter in any of my filters and it was always fine.
( And.... I didn't get from FF a special version just for me. Ha! Ha! ).
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