[Bug?] Bomber+ Randomizer Variation does nothing (Staff: By design)

I plugged the Randomizer to the Size input for Bomber+.

Changing the variation of the Randomizer has no effect. On the other hand, changing the Preview setting has the effect of changing the Randomizer output lighter: Preview setting 0 subtracts .5 from the randomizer values and 10 adds .5 to the Randomizer values and others by values in-between.

I see. So it is not useful to plug the Bomber+ slaves, directly or indirectly, to any other of their master's inputs besides the Particle in any situation?

Of course, I could have read the instructions first

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ThreeDee wrote: Of course, I could have read the instructions first

Sorry, but the help article in the current release is a horrible mess. We rewrote them completely, they'll be available in the next release.

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ThreeDee wrote: 1) The Master outputs Slave values after it's own "prepare" step for a specific particle, randomizing etc. in preparation for receiving a particle. 2) The master then reads the Particle input, that can be modified by the Slave values of (1) above. 3) Only then does the Master render this specific particle. Thus, in effect, it is a Master (prepare)-Slaves (output)-Particle (Input)-Master (render) cycle for every particle? Or, rather, in parallel for all particles.

1) Sort of. The Master outputs values for slaves during sampling its slave-accepting inputs. In case of Bomber Plus, there's only one slave-accepting input, namely Particle. Technically, it includes the data package for slaves as an additional argument:

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Particle.get_sample(x, y, additionaldata)

2) Yes.

3) Yes.

I explain all this in the new help articles, to be released in the next update. I added slave-related sections to articles on Bitmap-Based Components, Filter Forge's Sample-Based Architecture, plus there will be a separate article explaining slave components, and sections on using slave components in the help article for every master component and every slave.

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Vladimir Golovin wrote: Sorry, but the help article in the current release is a horrible mess. We rewrote them completely, they'll be available in the next release.

In the next release is in reference to FF 5.07?

Yes, giving more explanations on how to use the new features as is not easy to understand

Thanks