Filter Forge update 1.013

as carl would say, 'noice!'

eh? where you seeing a command line?

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Kraellin wrote: how do we know which one to use?

Please read the help article further

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On older computers with CPUs that don't support the SSE2 instruction set (Intel CPUs prior to Pentium 4 and AMD CPUs prior to Athlon 64), use FFXCmdRenderer-x86.exe instead of FFXCmdRenderer-x86-SSE2.exe.

It always gives me a warm fuzzy feeling to see this program being improved in any way.....

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Kraellin wrote: but, i'm curious about all this. compared to FF itself, this seems a bit...uhm, pardon me for saying it this way, but, sloppy.

This is a command-line tool after all BTW, it is documented in the help, unlike many of them which are documented only by their own -h command I too would prefer a proper batch processor with the GUI, but this feature is not essential to FF, so we decided to provide it in the command-line form to save development time.

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Kraellin wrote: could you do another update real soon and give us user-made folders under 'my filters'?

Real soon, no. In the longer run, definitely.

This is an area I am unfamiar with. Other than going waaay back when command line meant
"dos" to me anyway.

So what does this mean to the user? I have been getting strange behavior due to what I am
guessing is memory challenges. As it appears that FF is constantly trying to render something.
Does any of this address that?

the 20% faster on some of the noises is pretty cool - I like Craig look forward to folders

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Sjeiti wrote: Pity you can only render presets with the batch

----So that means no random stuff then I would assume, and does that also mean it can't be set to create a rendered image and then run it through other filters and such ? Only being able to render presets sounds pretty 1990/primitive really.
----And what's the word on dualcore stability, the update isn't causing any probs for anyone ?

jffe

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Vladimir Golovin wrote: I too would prefer a proper batch processor with the GUI, but this feature is not essential to FF, so we decided to provide it in the command-line form to save development time.

will it become a Gui function in the future?

YAY... the update looks delicious!

Is there any coder around that could write a GUI frontend for creating batch.xml files? Or a tool for generating ffxml files with keyframe-interpolated sequences of filter presets, perhaps?

I can smell the animation part is near...

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Crapadilla wrote: Is there any coder around that could write a GUI frontend for creating batch.xml files? Or a tool for generating ffxml files with keyframe-interpolated sequences of filter presets, perhaps?

Wheres Ken when you need him

anyone noticed that 'save image as' now comes up with 100% as the default instead of 98%?

ah, good

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Vladimir Golovin wrote: I too would prefer a proper batch processor with the GUI, but this feature is not essential to FF, so we decided to provide it in the command-line form to save development time.

not essential? sorry, but i strongly disagree with this. an easy-to-use batch processing tool is definitely essential to any high-end graphics app like FF. i think you really need to work on this end of things. i had a look at how the new command line system is set up, and it would take me more time to prepare the xml than to manually apply a filter to a folder full of files (which i do quite often).

anyone who finds they need to apply the same filter/preset to 100+ different images will definitely think twice about using FF. i think the most i've done is about 25 with the same filter, and it's a very tedious job!

there definitely needs to be a simple way to select a folder full of images, then select a filter/preset/etc, and hit GO. and i doubt i'm alone in thinking this

also, there needs to be a way to render the same filter on the same image over and over with random settings. i have generated and saved as many s 50 variations of the same image, and let me tell you, it takes forever!

these tasks really need to be automated. FF isn't a toy, or an occasional-use app, you know

Hi!
Well, I cannot update to the new version!
I've had 1.009 and didn't use it longtime. Then, recently I remembered about it and when I tried to connect to the site for filters, it requires to update. But when I updated my user name and pass didn't match. What is the problem? Do I have to buy again the new update 1.013?
Tnanks!