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Crest
Crest
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Hello

I have been using filter forge for years and I use it for a lot my work in VFX game development. I recently Upgraded to Filter Forge 8 from 5 and I am really happy with the new features.

However the most critical and time saving feature for isolating the alpha has gone and it make my work tedious and inaccurate for what I need to do.
Posted: June 6, 2019 1:20 pm   Details E-Mail
Sphinxmorpher
Filter Optimizer

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Which functionality is this? I've used FF since V2 and I don't recall anything related to Alpha being removed (or anything else for that matter).

Perhaps you're thinking of a specific filter?
Njyldgarkn init/prepare process x no. of render blocks x no. of passes
Posted: June 7, 2019 2:51 am   Details E-Mail
SpaceRay
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Crest wrote:
However the most critical and time saving feature for isolating the alpha has gone and it make my work tedious and inaccurate for what I need to do.


I think that you should explain it a bit more and give more details of what you mean and where is the alpha render channel and where it was before and why now is not available

How have you been using it that now you can´t?
Posted: June 7, 2019 5:47 am   Details E-Mail
GMM
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Crest is correct: FF 1-6 allowed you to render a separate alpha channel from the Render Maps menu. It was removed in FF 7 because it is redundant.

If you need to isolate the alpha just insert a Get Alpha component in front of Result.
Posted: June 7, 2019 6:53 am   Details E-Mail
Crest
Crest
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GMM wrote:
Crest is correct: FF 1-6 allowed you to render a separate alpha channel from the Render Maps menu. It was removed in FF 7 because it is redundant.

If you need to isolate the alpha just insert a Get Alpha component in front of Result.


Thanks for clearing that up for me GMM, it's a bit of a shame but if this is something that makes FF better, then I understand.
Posted: June 17, 2019 11:40 am   Details E-Mail

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