Ideas for Controls:

Lucato, nice idea and a pretty mock-up.

I needed one of your control modifiers yesterday - only it was a divider.

Rô

Thanks guys,

Yup Rô, I need It a lot of times too. I hope FF team implement that in the next update or next future. Hey Rô tell me what did you intended to do to use the Control Modifier? What was the situation?

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Lucato wrote: Hey Rô tell me what did you intended to do to use the Control Modifier? What was the situation?

For my "Adaptive Tiling" filter. I want to be able to vary the number of tiles but the mortar width must remain constant. For that to happen when the tiling repetition doubles the mortar width must be halved.

Until I can do that the tiling must remain fixed.

I think the best answer will be to ditch the Tiling component all together, and use the offset scheme developed by Quasimodo e uberzev. (bows in due admiration)

Rô

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byRo wrote: For my "Adaptive Tiling" filter. I want to be able to vary the number of tiles but the mortar width must remain constant. For that to happen when the tiling repetition doubles the mortar width must be halved.

You should have a look at my Flex Tiling filter which allows for an arbitrary number of tiles. I faced the same problem that I had to get different numerical mappings from one slider input and I solved this with the help of curves and curve operations. So I guess that dividing by 2 should also be possible with this method.

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You should have a look at my Flex Tiling filter which allows for an arbitrary number of tiles

Hey Quasimondo, the Flex Tiling is so good. Congratulations. We should have It as component.

Hey Rô, don't worry about that.

Guys keep the amazing work!

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Lucato wrote: We should have It as component.

The only reason why we didn't include the Repeat component is that it would be VERY, VERY, VERY slow when its subtree has any bitmap-based component such as Blur or HighPass. For example, when the Repeat component is set to 10x10, that would mean the blur will have to produce an image 100 times larger than normal. This means the filter will be 100 times slower. This is a limitation of our current architechture.

When we have speed hints in place, we probably can bring the Repeat back -- the speed hints would let people know that this combo is VERY, VERY slow.

Ideas for Controls...

d) Color/Alpha: Well, this one would be more a Control update than new Color control. Now a days when we are on Filter Editor and use the Color control, we get to change the alpha color in the 'Color Picker' even being in the settings tab (Editor mode), but when we left the editor, you don't get to change the alpha in the 'Color Picker'. Maybe the Color control when shown in the settings tab would have also on its right side a slide bar to control the alpha and in the Color control settings (editor mode) we would have a checkbox to ask if want to show/use the alpha silider or not. Still talking about Color Control, the color remapper would have a 2 gray inputs (1 for minimum and 1 for maximum color). I had the need of the maximum color be equal to one Color control I've used, but I didn't get to make it once we haven't this option.

e) (Coming soon)

good to see you still around, lucato!

yup, things are good, lucato. we're missing a few of our old regulars, like uberzev and northernshadow and byRo, and FF is working on the Mac version, so not a lot of new stuff coming out, but, filters are being made and life goes on