Bitmap Cache: Add "Bypass" property

We plan to implement this functionality via a separate Bypass component. I'm afraid I can't give an ETA for its appearance.

A real infrastructural Bypass would be awesome and preferable. I understand why that is alot work

A simple internal bypass (i.e. f(x) -> x) would also do - perhaps as a first edition before the "significant rewrite".

Anyway, I'm glad to hear you're considering the feature

Here's a more recent pic that looks a bit better:

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Sphinx. wrote: How is it going with the work on "The Next Big Thing"? Need testers?

In short, GPUs are weird, hard to program, and we still have no idea what to do with them on Mac, especially given Apple's transition to their own silicon.

And BTW, the screens aren't from The Next Big Thingy -- they are from an Editor overhaul we're planning for normal, regular Filter Forge.

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emme wrote: So, is The Next Big Thingy currently on pause, or still in development? Too bad about the GPU difficulties, but it's understandable.

No, not on pause. The current focus is a tile-based / render-on-demand architecture for GPUs, which is needed for rendering anything bitmap-based.

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emme wrote: Looks like there might be some new functionality along with the new visuals?

There'll be a lot of new functionality -- dragging connectors from inputs (not just from outputs as before), click-click-connections in addition to dragging, ability to reconnect connections coming from an output, component creation menu available during connecting (like in Houdini / Unity / Unreal), dots for rerouting connections, named pins for distributing connections, named wireless pins for laying connections through the air, ability to rename components, collapsible component previews, framed groups (like in Unity), and a proper bypass -- but this one may take a while.

Oh, and design-wise, every single thing is now aligned to the grid, which hopefully will somewhat mitigate spaghetti networks facilitated by the current editor.

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emme wrote: Is this planned for version 10 or for later?

That would be nice, but the development may take longer. We'll see.

Awesome! This will really make the workflow more robust.

One small but useful feature would be the ability to duplicate connections fr om inputs with a modifier key (like ctrl). There's a connection from A -> B and I want to connect A -> C, I could simply ctrl + drag from the B input to C input and duplicate the connection. Useful for large trees wh ere the components can be very far from each other.

Maybe the features you listed already solve this