New Wiki article: The Beginner's Cookbook

It's about time we catered to newly arriving would-be filter creators, don't you think? Questions arise often as to where some tutorials on learning FF might be found, but - let's face it - there aren't that many around, and they're not available in any single location.

That's why I thought it might be nice to have the Beginner's Cookbook, a place for the FF community to collect all those tidbits of basic filter cuisine knowledge and distill it into delicious mini-tutorials for easy consumption.

All seasoned authors are hereby invited to participate and bake their knowlegde into wiki format. In the name of good filtration, let's ramp up the wiki use and create some gourmet recipes!

Snippet authors are welcome to explain their favorite snippets and devote a recipe to them!

All newcomers to FF and would-be filter creators are hereby encouraged to give feedback, constructive criticism, chime in with wishes for recipes, etc. Let's hear ermmm... read it!

I'd say version 2 recipes should go in there too, but they should be clearly marked as such.

For example, in v2 we can generate circles easily with the polygon component, so I'd make a new "Circles 2.0" article for that.

I'd say we handle it just like FF components. If a recipe becomes obsolete due to a new version release, we'll tag it with a 1.0

After all, it might still be interesting to the 1.0 folks that don't upgrade.

A little encouragement for those not too used to wiki editing: There's help!

Thank you Dilla, & all the other authors for your hard work!
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Better days are commin with Filter Forge.

Have a GREAT DAY!

Ron

Thanks ronjonnie & Carl. I might get around to finishing one or two more articles over the holidays. Still looking forward to seeing others taking up some of the wiki fun.

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Vladimir Golovin wrote: [...] the new forum sidebar.

Looks good, Vlad.

Awesome work thus far guys, I just wanted to give a quick tip: use the .PNG fileformat for screenshots. They will be much higher quality (no jpeg compression artifacts) and will likely be smaller filesize as well.

Good tips for choosing

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Vladimir Golovin wrote: we've given the wiki more exposure in the new forum sidebar.

It appears to be working already!

Go ThreeDee!

Way to go ThreeDee
I was going to start with shadows dilla beat me to that one a while ago...So my second recipe is skewing...I'll work on that one in the next day or so...I got a start on the basics....So I'll finish that and then do some advanced recipes then post those in the wiki..
Hopefully no one else is working on this one

UPDATE....
Hurray my first Wiki in a while...I almost forgot how..
Still working on some other skewing stuff...But don't know if I want to go
to crazy with that one...
Skewing

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Carl wrote: nice work CF Smile

Thanks and just glad it didn't take to long to remember how to Wiki...
Might tackle the spirals next....There's 3 methods unless I am missing one...There's
Sejtis, Mine and Byros....Then some of Volds' mods in there as well...This might be a long one....I am wondering if I should put it in sections or maybe just focus on one...

nope, blends are one of the fastest, corvus. by all means use them for color picking. see the article on speed. i think it's stickied in one of the forums still.

understood. here's the source information: http://www.filterforge.com/forum/read...10&TID=237 and it is a stickied thread in this forum.