What makes Filter Forge the BEST filter maker that you can find now?

What makes Filter Forge (FF) the BEST filter maker that you can find right now ?

2 things:

1 - USER FRIENDLY WAY - The good and well done Visual Node Based System inside the Filter editor versus the scripting and programming environment of other software.

2 - FF FORUM - The Great Filter Forge Forum that have so many wonderful and kind persons that want and will help you with the possibles questions you may have about making them.

Fr om my own taste and opinion, Filter Forge is MUCH BETTER from the developer of filters point of view, there is NO other software available now, that makes it as easier and very well done as the FF node based system, even better than Genetica and SubstanceDesigner that are from my experience more complex and not so intuitive and so good than FF can be.

And of Course FF is WAY MUCH BETTER than either Pixel bender and Filter Meister for developing and building filters as this are based on scripting and programming environment

Although FF is not perfect at all and has some problems and needs more things and could be even better, as it is now is still very good.

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Quote GMM wrote: you can take a look at FilterMeister and compare 'user friendliness' of filter creation in FilterMeister and Filter Forge. Vladimir Golovin wrote here comparing FF and FM is a bit like comparing apples and oranges (a scripting environment and a node-based system). Obviously, a visual editor is more user-friendly than a script-based toolkit

For me personally is REALLY very difficult to learn to make a filter inside a scripting and programming environment, and even if I could do it, is not fun at all, and not a think that I like, because it is much better to do it in a VISUAL way than with coding and scripting

This why also I will surely never learn to use LUA for making FF filters.

As Ronviers said below very well "coding just isn't for my brain" and also totally agree with Carl on this

I'm a visual person and don't know how you can translate or work out something you can't see and wouldn't know wh ere to start

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Carl wrote here Quote ronviers wrote: Are you embracing lua? no, I'm a visual person and don't know how you can translate or work out something you can't see and wouldn't know wh ere to start ........ I guess my filter will suffer and never be EP's and my contribution to shared knowledge will become redundant ........ I know wrong answer but truthful, coding just isn't for my brain how are you going with it?

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Quote Carl wrote: don't know how you can translate or work out something you can't see Quote ronviers wrote: If I can't see it, I can't work it out. Even when I can imagine it clearly, I can only work it out with code in tiny steps. Anyway, I can get by in mel and I am learning to get by in python, but coding is not fun for me, and my enthusiasm for learning another language has waned. Things change, I will do what I need to do. But right now, I do not see lua happening.

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Carl wrote: oh LOL I wasn't expecting that, I thought with your skill base it would be easy for you. The best thing for me with FF was that it wasn't coding like filter Meister or such, I wonder if the the general user will learn lua

And Agree also with Totte that is much faster to learn how to make filters in FF than in any other software I have personally used

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Totte wrote in the same thread: It took me about 4 minutes to make my first filter after I've downloaded FF, and ok, it wasn't a top notch filter, would never have gotten either HU or EP, but it was very easy to just get going.

I also agree much with the good text Morgantao have under his name "can´t script"

Thanks to Skybase suggestion I have tried the new Node based app called Nodewerk from the very famous Aviary company, but although it seems to be very good and can do perhaps even more things than filter forge, I think that for beginners is not as easy to use and learn than filter forge that has a more clear filter editor and better interface and the easier way the image input is done.

Maybe I am doing it wrong as I have just had a very basic try at nodewerk, but while I see more about it I still prefer FF.