Groups saved as components

Hey there. Recently upgraded to FF4 from FF1, lots of great stuff in there. Just wanted to ask a question before I start adding wishlist items. There's a number of noise looks that can be achieved by mixing various current noises together, and then grouping the result. However, I would then like to use these groups inside the components menu, so I can add them just like regular components. Is this possible? If not, is it better to ask for new noises as wishlist items, or better to ask for the ability to package our own chunks of network as components? Thanks for any advice.

- Neil

My sense from past readings is that the custom components request is better and more likely than new noises. Thank goodness FF gives us the tools to build all the noises we need ourselves. Yep, hopefully in version 5.

>> Saving user-made groups into some sort of a custom components library
>> is already on our internal list. It requires a decent amount of work,
>> I wouldn't expect it to be implemented soon.

Well, it would be super useful, especially if we're not likely to see a lot of new noises.

>> I don't think new noises will appear at all

While many "Noise types" in other similar packages are really just variations on the standard noises, and can be constructed using the Filterforge schematic interface, there are a couple of missing noise base types that I feel really requires its own standard node. The main one is Ken Musgrave's Ridged Multi-Fractal. I'll make a case for it in the Feature Request section in the future.

Thanks for the information.

- Neil