Ideas for Filter Editor:

Ok, let me be a little organized, let me place all here and the future ones too.

Ideas for Filter Editor

a) Full screen preview of the work area by clicking on TAB key. By clicking againg switch to the normal view.

b) When using editor, in the setting tab would exist a way where we would click twice on the slider tittle, and it would locate (jump/send us) to the control on the work area and select it. Or... we would right click on the work area and get a context menu with "Controls >" and show all controls names we've setted. So, from this context we would select the desired one and the work area jump to the selector. (FF team, if you want, you can delete the previous post like this item)

c) (Coming soon)

Thanks Uber, I've never used F key before, just by clicking. hehehe.

d) Still talking about components, the Result Component would be dived. I mean, we would have a new Component Filter Type and we would use controls to pick Surface, Simple Filter, and so on. So, with the Filter Type Component we would continue build the filter. I would add a "Blend" after that and so on.

e) Looked to: When we unlock the Component preview, It would by default go look the Result Component.

f) (coming soon)

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Lucato wrote: So, with the Filter Type Component we would continue build the filter. I would add a "Blend" after that and so on

This is technically difficult at the moment, I wouldn't expect this anytime soon.

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Lucato wrote: When we unlock the Component preview, It would by default go look the Result Component.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean -- could you please give more details?

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Lucato wrote: Vlad, just came another idea to my mind how it would work instead of dragging the "Big Greend arrow" to another Componente, maybe It would work by dragging the new component over the old one. I think this second option is better than the 1st one.

I like the dragging of the big output arrow better - I fear that if it gets triggered when dragging a component over another one this could lead to cases where you accidentally replace the a component when just moving things around on the workspace. Or with "new component" you want to say that the replacement only occurs when one drags a component from the list to the workspace?

Ideas for Filter Editor ...

f) Pointer area selector: It would be interesting to get to hold SHIFT+LMC (Left Mouse Click) on a empty area of the workspace and select an area. When you release the LMC It selects all Components that are into this selected area (See image attached). By pressing SPCACE BAR would unselect all components.

g) (coming soon)

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Hmmm... interesting. We dropped the marquee selector in favor of always-accessible Pan (it is a more frequently-used operation than the multi-selection). Shift is currently used to select multiple components, but I think it is possible to leave Shift-LMB-click as it is, and implement the marquee selector on Shift-LMB-drag. We'll definitely consider this for inclusion -- thank you for the idea.

Marquee Selector, that's the name!!! It sounds much better than Pointer area selector. Hehehe. Hey Vlad, I agree with you that Pan we use much more, so, keep this way. I think the Marquee Selector would also use the same Shift+LMB+Click once that the we will click on the empty area in the workspace. So, when I hold Shift over a empty workspace area, It would change the hand icon to pointer icon. Once It's a pointer, keep holding shift and just click and drag to select the marquee area. After release and still using the same the same Shift+LMB+Click, but now over a component, I would select some extra components that I didn't get in the selected marquee area. Anyway, you guys will see what combination is better.

Thansk for considering this for inclusion and you're very welcome.

Ideas for Filter Editor...

h) Large Preview: The same way we get to show/hide the Component list, we would have a Large Preview button to show/hide a large rendered preview area. (See the image attached)

i) (coming soon)

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g) Organizing Components: When creating filters we use to use some Components more often, so the suggestion is to create a way allow us to reorder the component list by dragging the components (See image attached). Maybe just in the 'ALL' category or better, get to reaorder all categories. Wink Also have a button Restore to Default.

Cool idea. Personally, I would be happy if I had a customizable 'Favorites' category that I could just drag&drop components into. Navigating through the categories can be a bit of a drag sometimes.

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h) Large Preview: The same way we get to show/hide the Component list, we would have a Large Preview button to show/hide a large rendered preview area. (See the image attached)

This is a must-have!

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Cool idea. Personally, I would be happy if I had a customizable 'Favorites' category that I could just drag&drop components into. Navigating through the categories can be a bit of a drag sometimes.

Good idea too Crapa.

2) Horizontal version: It would continue with the button Component on the top to hide/show. On the left a drop down list to pick the categories. Below It shows the name of the Components when mouseover on the small icons in the horizontal scroll bar. The icons are smaller than actual ones. (See the image attached)

I vote for the horizontal #2.

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Hi people first post and im not sure if anybody has said this...but instead of a program defined keystroke..... a user one make everbody happy at the click o the button

I'm sorry, maybe It's my Language barrier, but I didn't get that DrEvil. What was the fun? Does it have to be with the thread/topic in question? Maybe byRo can traslate that for me. Anyway, welcome to the Filter Forge forums and don't be evil!

almost any more i use the copy and paste to add new components. so, defined keys to me gets to be an annoyance because you have to start remembering control-shift-alt-d-plus xyz if it's a tuesday and invert the whole thing if it's an odd month of the year. ok, maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration. the simpler way is to right click on the component and have a 'copy-paste' item as one item instead of having to hit copy and then paste.

yeah, i know, that only works if you've already got one item open of that kind. still, it's a nice shortcut.

to get a completely new component, small icons in a toolbar works best once you get to know what things do. being able to dock that toolbar where you want or hide it altogether is a plus also.

craig

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How sweet would it be if the horizontal menu worked like the Dock in OSX?

I agree that It's cool Uber, but just if you use few times. I guess I would get very dizzy by picking a lot of different Components while creating an effect/texture.

Yeah, this works like a charm now!

Next up: Large Preview please!

You can alway just use the undo to go back to the original state

Ideas for Filter Editor...

k) It would be interesting to get to load a new image into the image node while into editor mode. So, I would test another image without needing to save the filter, go out the editor, change the image and come back to the editor.

l) coming soon...

Maybe multi point wires, which you can curve to make the module structures look nice

holding control or alt (or something) when hovering over a wire gives you the option to delete the wire

+1 for the image changing idea, it gets annoying having to save all the details always imo

Turn off previews or have it so you can change the res for them, so you could have a basic set for the earlier modules then a high quality preview of the final to speed up development on pc's which don't go too fast with FF, like thumbnail size in a way does but for each individual module, then also have the option to set all the same so you could quickly set all to low then go to the prieview and set it to high etc for a quick way of doing it.

The abillity to hide/minimize certain things would be nice if you needed to see more of the structure and could quickly click an arrow to hide the left side etc

How about a duplicate feature, like copy paste however keeps all wires connections, not essential but speeds up workflow sometimes

The abbility to un dock the preview, so we could for instance un dock it drag to the center of the screen then enlarge the size rather than having it set and having to save and go to the main preview to see the larger version.

And of course what i keep asking for grouping and organzing features, so you could group a nice quick texture for example name the group (Grey stone etc) then drag it across into your own module collection which you can arrange, add folders, rename etc, so like your own custom library of usefull building blocks and effects.

Thats it right now, sorry if any of these have already been mentioned

Ideas for Filter Editor...

p) In the pop-up "Order of controls" it would be cool if FF would allow us to move up/down more than one iten at once. I would select more than one iten by holding Ctrl (alternate) or Shift (range) to get to move them up or down;

q) Coming soon...

Ideas for Filter Editor...

r) When I open the Filter Editor by clicking the [Filter Editor...] button from the main window, I'd like that it opened the preset I was selected in the main window. Now a days it opens the 1st preset and not the selected preset. So, after opening the Editor window I need to pick again the preset I want.

s) Coming soon...

Hi!

It would be great if one could map the scale option (grey at the moment) of a noise component with an other green component.
May it be possible?