Various questions

1. How often are the updates?

2. Will there be an EA deal? If we sign up as soom as you start taking payments?

3. How do i transfer textures i have made from computer to computer?

4. I mostly have been starting with textures others have made and editing them to look how i want, would it be ok to submit these to the filter library?

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James wrote: 4. I mostly have been starting with textures others have made and editing them to look how i want, would it be ok to submit these to the filter library?

Here is my personal take on it: This is a question of etiquette. If you have made big enough changes to a filter that it qualifies as a new effect you can submit it under your name, but you should always give credit to the original filter author by mentioning him or her in the description. If you just make small changes like adding a controller or changing a few parameters or colors you rather post this filter here in the forum first to give the original autor the chance to update his/her own filter or create a variation or give you the permission to upload it under your name.

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James wrote: 3. How do i transfer textures i have made from computer to computer?

Just copy the "%appdata%\Filter Forge\MyFilters" (enter the quoted string in address bar of your Windows Explorer) to the respective location on another computer. Alternativelly, you can copy entire "%appdata%\Filter Forge" folder to preserve your settings, thumbnails and library filter presets.

If you want to share/copy individual filters, just press Ctrl-L when filter is selected in the main screen -- the rest should be pretty straightforward )

Sorry for a small typo, the first path should read "%appdata%\Filter Forge\My Filters".

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James wrote: Ah ok, i guess i should start making them from empty setups then, i guess what i have been doing would be called variations but i do sometimes add new components ect. Smile

Not necessarily - there are no rules yet written in stone. It all boils down to common sense. I think the best way to go about it is to put yourself in the other persons perspective - if you have built a filter with some effort and now somebody else adds just one component to it and resubmits it as his own creation without giving any credit to you - how would you feel about it?

BTW - doing variations is great, and very often the variation might even be better than the original, but in the end it is a variation not an original creation and cannot deny its roots.

And just rebuilding the whole thing from scratch but using the orginal filter as a blueprint is not any better behavior - I'd say that's even worse.

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James wrote: Oh and also will we be able to pay using paypal?

This will depend on the ecommerce provider that will handle payments for FF. We will be using a third-party payment processing service -- some of them support PayPal, some don't. I'd prefer to support PayPal of course, but I can't promise anything at the moment.

yeah i mean Early Adopter, i was just wondering if we could sign up before V1 gets released for a lower price or something, some other software i use did that so it just got me thinking