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Welcome to the Filter Forge Wiki!

General Filter Forge

• Most Asked Support Questions - Newcomers to Filter Forge, please take a look at this page.
• Platform Migration Guide - How to transfer all Filter Forge filters, settings, etc from Windows to Mac and from Mac to Windows.
• Feature Wishlist - An archive of feature requests from the Feature Wishlist forum.

Filter Creation

• Beginner's Cookbook - A collection of basic "recipes" (i.e. mini-tutorials) aimed at those new to filter creation.
• The DOs and DON'Ts of Filter Construction - Useful thoughts & techniques towards more efficient filters.
• Optimizing Filters for Speed - Components and render speed.
• Hints, tips, and tricks - A collection of hot tips, cool tricks and hidden Filter Forge secrets!
• Snippet Guide - A reference for the basic effects that can be incorporated into more sophisticated filters. -- [Needs an update!]
• The Filter That Was Doomed - Guidelines for Avoiding 'Low Usage'.
• Animation filters - A guide to create filters for animation.

Scripting in Filter Forge

• Getting Started with Scripting - A crash course into creating your own components.
• Sample-based Architecture - A dive-into into Filter Forge rendering guts.
• Map Script Component - A guide for making your own Map component.
• Referencing Inputs - How to make your component accept connections.
• Scripting Tips and Tricks - General scripting tips, tricks and optimization hints.
• Scripting API - Filter Forge Scripting API (in Help).
• Libraries and meta classes - A place for script snippets, meta classes and libraries.

Components

• Gradients 101 - An introduction to gradients in FF -- [Under construction].
• Kaleidoscopes Unveiled - What you always wanted to know about Kaleidoscopes but were afraid to ask.
• Noise Lab - An in-depth look at harnessing the power of Perlin and Worley OR "Where is all my Noise?" -- [This article is a stub!]
• Offsets Demystified - Exploring the versatile Offset component and its myriad uses. [Needs an author!].
• Thresholds - A closer look the possibilities of the Threshold component -- [Under construction].

External Filter Forge tools

PC

• FFCat - Tool for categorizing your filters

MAC

• FFBatchmaster - Tool for batch animation

online

• FFBatch - Tool for batch animation
• FFPreview - Bookmarklet to use on filterforge.com to 3D preview filters

Miscellaneous

• Requested Articles

Web Resources

Texturing

• The Art of Texturing - A web-link repository for texturing tutorials and other learning materials.
• Reference Library - A web-link repository for online texture reference material and free texture libraries.

Effects

• Creating Image Effects - A web-link repository for inspirational image effect tutorials.

HDRI

• The HDRI Repository - A web-link repository for all stuff related to HDRI and making FF environments.