User friendly filter creation interface

make the filter creation interface more user friendly. Make it so that its easier for beginners to be able to create their own filters and understand how all the different components work.

MysticEyes, you can take a look at FilterMeister and compare 'user friendliness' of filter creation in FilterMeister and Filter Forge.

GMM, comparing FF and FM is a bit like comparing apples and oranges (a scripting environment and a node-based system). Obviously, a visual editor is more user-friendly than a script-based toolkit, but I'd still like to hear more about "stumbling points" of FF's editor from a beginner's point of view.

Vladimir, FilterMeister is not a universally-known software (look at their Alexa rank). Users need something to compare Filter Forge with

MysticEyes, you may want to browse through the Filter Creation section in our wiki.

do you have any good basic filters to recommend that I study. I really want to learn to make some really cool filters

for glass and metal, try steviej's filters. or, get some of the freepacks and dissect those.

I whipped this up in a few minutes. Bombers, custom lights, and BAM!

Well, you can really only do it if you have the beta. Here's what it looks like:

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StevieJ wrote: could be simplified towards something like Genitica

Do you mean grouping components into a single node? We're working on this already

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Do you mean grouping components into a single node? We're working on this already

That is what I mean with snippets library as well. Then, the new users will need a snippets library with some good sample effects that they just can pull out , hook up and get going.

One question, will "snippets" or "grouped components" be visible as one object all the time, expandable, so you can look inside, or will the even be put onto the workspace as a group of objects, or is it so that you can select a "grouped" object and choose to expand it, or select a grouop of components and choose to "group them"?

If you are doing this, having the possibility to transform component groups from or to a grouped object would really be useful. You have something in a filter that you think will be useful in the future, select the components involved, select what inputs the group have and where they go, and boom, you have a "mega component / group / snippet".

And in the case of being new ti FF:
And you have a megacomponent /snippet / componentgroup in the library, you add it you your filter, but want to experiment, so you "ungrouo" it, and get all its components there, to fiddle with.