Help articles on Scripting (work in progress)

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Create a Map Script component (located in the Scripting category on the Component Bar).

ok, what if we have no scripting category on the component bar? "Help Components" doesnt show any such thing either. is this something upcoming or am i missing something here? and yes, this version 2, latest update.

edit: and in looking further, what happened to the options? i no longer have an "Options" in the menu system.

edit: never mind, found the options. lol. dont get old but i still cant find anything about scripting within the editor.

edit yet again: ok, seems i dont have the latest version. lol. stage 4 is out today. ok, forget i posted anything here

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Mike Blackney wrote: I thought they would be pixels (for some reason)

Thank you for reminding me to upload the article on "Filter Forge's Sample-Based Architecture"

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Mike Blackney wrote: Sorry if asking questions like this are doubling up on wiki work.

Don't worry. The help file is the #1 priority right now, and within the help file scripting is the most important chunk of work -- though I can't promise that we'll update the Wiki versions often, we're not using them for internal editing.

I've updated the original post with a link to a new article on sample-based architecture.

Something that might help aspiring scripters (such as me) is if you provided images of how you would create the example scripts out of existing components (if possible). For example, the radial gradient script could be accompanied with the attached image. I understood the explanation, but it took me a few read throughs to match it all up and understand it. Then I confirmed it by rebuilding it with nodes.

Brilliant Ben!

Though it's more than a decade later, I srt of had the same question:

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Crapadilla wrote: Are the wiki articles on Scripting obsolete?

I've been doing a lot of scripting as I strive to teach myself how to make better scripts. I've finally hit the point where I need more debugging info than the console errors. So, I started looking for the Filter Forge x64.log (for v.9) and found my way to a few forum posts and the wiki, but the instructions to look in "%APPDATA%\Local\Temp\..." didn't turn up the log. I had a fiter editor session going, so I expected it to be there.

Assuming the leads I followed are just out of date, I'm wondering where I should look for the log. I'd appreciate the help!

Great! So... What is the location of "Filter Forge x64.log" for Filter Forge 9 on Windows 10?

I've done a bit of poking around trying to track down the location of the "Filter Forge x64.log" for Filter Forge 9 on Windows 10. I've checked in:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Temp\Filter Forge 9\ and C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Filter Forge 9\

Since I'm asking, I obviously didn't find it at either of those places. Weird. The Temp location was mentioned in a post about using the log file, and I remember something about the log file only existing while Filter Forge is running (and the Filter Editor is open). After a bit more searching, I followed someone's advice to look for (or create) a Logs folder in the Roaming location, and restarted Filter Forge. Then, in the Filter Editor, I loaded a filter with a Map Script with known errors and selected it. I confirmed that errors were written to the console and then checked the Logs folder I created; it did not turn up in it or the respective Filter Forge 9 folders I could find.

I also looked for settings in Filter Forge Options > Logging to make sure I didn't need to enable log files to ensure one is created when Map Scripts are running. Logging does not show up in the Options, and it wasn't included in any of the available tabs, like Scripting. Also, only the internal Message Log is mentioned in the Filter Forge Help tool. If it isn't the case that the log file is only created when an error occurs while running a Map Script, it seemed the only option remaining was to contact Filter Forge Support to see if they can provide any additional information on how to enable the creation of log files.

If the log file has been eliminated, that really makes debugging script difficult. One line error messages in the Message Log of the Filter Editor isn't enough to debug whole arrays with indexing problems. Please tell me I've just been looking in the wrong places!

Hope you can give me good news,

David Roberson

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GMM wrote: The log file is still at c:\Users\your_username\AppData\Local\Temp\Filter Forge x64.log

Great! As you could tell, I improvised when I did not find a log. Since I have different versions of Filter Forge, I thought it might make a difference on where the log might be.

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GMM wrote: The log file is created when Filter Forge crashes, or when a script (Map or Curve) generates an error.

Thanks for that clarification.