Can you smell it too?

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James wrote: What exactly is planned for V2 feature wise, anyone know?

Component grouping/subroutines and bombers (particle tools) are two main v2 features that I remember reading about somewhere...

Edit: Found something...

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onyXMaster wrote: cool stuff that might get into a major future version: soft shadows for surface type filters, better support for color management (this one actually might slip into 1.x, but I'm not sure enough for now), metacomponents (a tree of components represented as a single component), bomber components and a lot more.

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Vladimir Golovin wrote: According to the current plan, the major items to be included into 2.0 are bombers, shapes, full range of math components with unclamped output, local search for filters, and grouping of components in the Editor. Bombers and shapes are relatively easy to do. Math components may pose certain difficulty since they will require control components with numeric input, which, in turn, may require serious infrastructural changes. Grouping of components within the Editor is also a difficult task.

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Component grouping/subroutines and bombers (particle tools) are two main v2 features that I remember reading about somewhere...

Cool if we can save those custom made groups then i will most likely use FF more, i never did get the whole use others filters thing myself apart for effects, i mean personally i could never be satisfied using someone elses project unless it was just adding a grain to a image or making a interesting 3d scene. Its always been about the building here But FF at the moment is quite annoying to use interesting things over again, i do this in Genetica with my saved groups which i have in a catagorized library and it really speeds things up and makes getting nice results alot easier, hopefully the new version of FF will improve on that.

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Beliria wrote: Mind I am good at guessing possible reasons for things happening/not happening... and you know what 55% of the time I'm right.. just watch out for the 45% I'm not

----Isn't a coin toss 50%/%50 though ?

jffe

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jffe wrote: ----Isn't a coin toss 50%/%50 though ?

Ooo you figured me out!!

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Crapadilla wrote: That's probably mostly automatic these days... or so it would seem!

Ahh.. might explain why some of the filters I uploaded have been accepted... *ponders*.

I just wish Vlad would toss us some tiny bits about how the development is coming along. The total radio silence regarding that topic kind of makes me feel the mac beta might be further away than we all hope.

Besides, it's about time for another official news item.

hehe, the nose knows thanks, onyx

Next FFv2

Yes, the Mac version is making good progress. We'll announce it officially sometime this fall, and post some screenies with the announcement. I wouldn't call it a 'late alpha', but, as you all already know, I'm a perfectionist

Vlad's in hiding again...

boy, i might have to go out and buy a mac just to beta test

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Vladimir Golovin wrote: we're using a single codebase approach.

If that is the case.....then I would make an educated guess that you are remedying the 'resource leak' problem in PC V1.xxxx and then releasing the Mac version upon the "fixed" code.....maybe even releasing Mac version with the PC V2 enhancements/goodies as well.....

How am I doing???

Thanx buddy..... LOL.....

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Crapadilla wrote: I think I smell something! Big grin Wink

sniff, sniff
You have a good sense of smell dilla...

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Crapadilla wrote: Vlad being noticeably silent again... I think I smell something!

Yep, you do, but I don't think we'll see anything before autumn I'd totally love quicker and sloppier betas, Valve style, but our stuff is still too half-baked to release.

As for overall progress, we already have some of the features for v2.0 implemented, but the big back-end work is still underway -- some of the new features we're planning require significant infrastructural reworking.

Mmmm... half-baked Filter Forge... *drool*

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I'm willing to personally swim the Bering Strait

hehe, gettin a little anxious there, uber? (though i'd probably be in a rowboat next to you )

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Crapadilla wrote: Well, if there's a chance of a closed alpha... you know my email!

What?! Closed betas for everyone?? I'll take two, please

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uberzev wrote: I'm willing to personally swim the Bering Strait if it means I can be a part of the closed alpha/beta.

Swimming chicken? I would like to see it
...and be careful of Russian and American submarines...

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I'd totally love quicker and sloppier betas, Valve style, but our stuff is still too half-baked to release.

Half-baked is my middle name... well actually it is Peterson, but I wouldn't mind just playing with anything new at this point...

Also any news with the EULA?

*sniffs* smells like bacon.

steam? i hate steam if you're talking about the gamer's Steam. that is WAY too intrusive! the last game i bought that had Steam, i couldnt even install the game until i installed Steam. i bought the game for the game, not Steam's intrusive, in your face, crap. so, i do hope what you're thinking of isnt like the Steam i'm thinking of!

uhm, ron... that's a quote by vlad, not me.

Oh, now I see what you mean. I do not know how that happened.

All kidding aside, I did not mean to make it look like you said it.

Come to think of it, I was going to reply to your steam comment but got very sleepy. That's when I decided to reply the Vlad's comment. I guess I pasted in his words to your quote - sorry.