Group feature: Control Component coercion into another Control type

Interestingly you can now coerce one Control component into another of the same kind, by which I mean you can "plug" any grey Control into another type of grey Control, which converts the input values to the value range of the second Control.

(You can also convert a Color input into a Greyscale input in the same fashion.)

Here's an example:

1) Create a filter with an Angle Control and plug it into Perlin Noise Angle.

2) Select both components and make them into a Group

3) Create an IntSlider and plug it into the Angle input of the Group

>> And now you are magically controlling the Angle Control component with the IntSlider Control.

As to the filter itself, you could of course achieve the same exact result just plugging the IntSlider directly into the Angle control of a Perlin Noise Angle input. So, is there a practical application for this?

Well, if the IntSlider gets fixed so it doesn't blow up above 20 when inside a group, you could force any input to an interger value, for instance.

Or make any grey control component run the values of a number of other grey control components while coercing them into the ranges of those controls.

I'm sure someone can come up with a practical example that is actually useful...

Yes, that is what it essentially does.

The most useful ones would probably be remapping anything to an integer or a checkbox ("yes or no").

I like the ability to constrain the Angle control to any integer or multiple thereof this way. Just need to fix that IntSlider bug...

You can also override the Bezier Curve Control with any Curve in the same way.

Essentially you have added an input (or a way to get one) into all the control nodes.

Enclosed filter is an example of the default remappings of an Angle Control to other control types.

Coercion example.ffxml

Indeed. It certainly gives additional flexibility for reuse and sharing.

Which brings me to an important question: Is there any possibility of giving the Group a value output (gray output) if the only component inside the group is a gray control? This would make this coercion feature complete.