SpaceRay
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I have made this thread
When is safe (or not recommended) to use seamless tiling override? And I wonder why the Seamless Tiling Override option to enable again seamless tiling is ONLY available inside the Filter Editor and you can´t activate and enable it WITHOUT entering inside the filter editor, maybe have an option inside the Tools-->Options Why I am asking this? Because if you enter into the Filter Editor and modify anything of the filter you CAN´T save it back to the original place, and must be saved in another different place, and also doing this the author looses it´s usage rank rewards Would be possible to have the Seamless Tiling Override inside the Tools --> Options also and not only inside the filter editor? REASONS WHY IS ONLY AVAILABLE IN FILTER EDITOR The reasons I may think and supposse that this is only available inside by design are: 1 - If this would be in the normal software options this setting would be active for ALL the filter you may use, and could be perhaps some problems with it, and would activate the seamless tiling for any filter either if it works or not. Although this would be the responsibility of the user to activate it ONLY when is needed and have it switched off when is not needed to have it. 2 - Maybe is only possible to do the seamless tiling override when this information is saved INSIDE the filter itself and may not work if this comes from outside, and considering that you can´t in any way modify nothing of the downloaded factory FF filters then this could be understandable 3 - Maybe Filter Forge Inc. wants to avoid that novice, unexperienced and unskilled persons could activate the seamless tiling override in the Tools--> Options and get errors and problems with the result and think that the program is giving wrong results and does not know why this is happening, so having it only inside the Filter Editor is only for persons that know about it. Thanks very much for any answer about this |
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Posted: December 18, 2013 3:42 am | ||||
Skybase
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I wouldn't worry about that. I think the way usage rank is calculated is different. I as an author wouldn't know / care anyway. You basically nailed some of the reasons. The override is a property of a filter, it's a setting that occurs per filter. Logically, the filter editor is where you do all your edits to a filter, anything outside is just the browser and common preferences that affect the program at its entirety. So it wouldn't make sense to have specific local settings like an override amongst a bunch of global settings (that affect the program). Plus as an author I wouldn't want somebody turning seamless tiling on / off if by design seamless tiling breaks the output appearance. So I'd rather have that as something I can control rather than somebody else. It's kinda like your choice type of thing but I just think it's nicer to keep a certain set of limitations to keep people from seeing bad results. ![]() |
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Posted: December 18, 2013 4:26 am |
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