Feature suggestion, time/life saver.

There is a way to render all maps at once (non-obvious, I admit). You need to save each render map as a separate preset (on the Presets tab click the menu triangle and select Add preset). Then use the batch renderer to render all the required presets -- for details, please see this help section:
http://www.filterforge.com/more/help/...derer.html

Yes, please! I would envision a render menu where I can choose which channels I want to render, select the image format and select the custom ending that gets attached to the filename. Just take a look at the mockup to see what I mean.

Seriously, this is something that would be the icing on my Filter Forge cake. I know that there are not so many texture artists like in Substance Designer for examp,e but FF still has a far superior quality and that would gain attraction to other users I bet. Creating a batch render by hand is way too much work for the casual user undless you create a GUI for that... which brings us back to what we actually wanted

Synchronicity at it's best, it was only yesterday I received a BETA 5 email with the new feature list, I thought it was a bit bare so requested this directly. I hope they take note. Like you say filter forge is top quality for textures I find hard to get elsewhere. I hope the they listen it looks like the version 5 feature list could do with some bulking out in my opinion. I've paid already.

I completely agree. This feature would make a big difference for people making textures for production.

Rendering out separate render maps is *VERY COMMON* in other render engines that people are using. This is a standard-ish feature which is oddly missing from FF. (Why have a automation tool with manual saving?)

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raabix wrote: too much work for the casual user undless you create a GUI for that... which brings us back to what we actually wanted

I also completely agree with this sentiment. Hand creating a batch to save just a few files (~20) isn't going to happen for most users.

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Beloudest wrote: I know that there are not so many texture artists like in Substance Designer for examp,e

FWIW Actually, now that Substance Designer integrates with Unity3D, that has really widened it's appeal. (Imagine loading your FFXML file straight into your render software.)