How to be able to share FILTER PRESETS in the forum of FF filters ?

The presets are saved inside the filter XML file.
The author needs to open the filter in a text editor, and copy all the presets to a text file, or post it on the forum.
The users can then open their filter in a text editor, and paste all the presets inside the filter XML file.

The part of the filter to find and post on the forum (if you're the author), or replace (if your'e a user) is marked by the tag <Presets>.
Simply copy\replace EVERYTHING between <Presets> and </Presets> (including the tags).

Here's a sample of how it should look like:

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<Presets>       <DefaultPreset preview_image="LIFESAVER_OPAQUE">          <Settings size_factor="2" variation="12741" seamless="true" antialiasing="4" map_type="0" edges_only="true" clip_hdr_for_result="true"/>           <Lighting>             <Height value="0.59999999999999998"/>             <Environment>                <Source value="Forest"/>                <Brightness value="1"/> .... .... And so on and on. The more presets you have the longer this part is. .... ....             <CheckboxControl id="checkboxcontrol 01">                <Checked value="false"/>             </CheckboxControl>          </Controls>       </Preset>    </Presets>

Actually I was wrong...

I'll get back to you on the real way to do this.

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I think that the user and custom presets are stored outside of the filter in the "my presets" folder

Yep. That's where the rest of the presets are. Only the factory presets are kept inside the filter itself.

The first part of my how-to post is still correct. You need to back up your filter before submitting it, so you don't lose all but 20 presets.

Here's the different part:
After you submit your filter, you have to wait for it to go online. That's when your filter has a number id. Remember this number.
Now open your backup with all the presets in a text editor, and search for </DefaultPreset>. Right under it, you will see a <Preset preview_image=...> tag. Copy everything from this line, all the way down to the last </Preset> tag. You know it's the last </Preset> tag, because right under it there will be a line </Presets>.

Now create a new text file, and paste evrything in there. At the very beginning of the file add in those two lines:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <MyPresets>

And at the very end of the file add this line:

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</MyPresets>

Save the file and call it Library_????.xml (only instead of ???? enter the filter id number).
This file you can now upload to the forum.

The user just needs to either:
1) Copy that file to his Filter Forge\My Presets folder, if he doesn't have any presets of his own yet, OR
2) Copy the content of the file and add it to his existing file. Only important thing is that those two lines above are at the very top, and </MyPresets> is at the very bottom.

NOTE: You will have duplicate presets. All the factory presets but the default preview will appear as user presets too (For example a filter with 20 factory presets will have 19 duplicates). All the user has to do is click the first of the duplicates, and Shift+click the last one, and delete all those duplicates.

Here I put a test file with presets

It is from your own Ball Pit filter (the first one)

I have added two new presets to the 9 factory ones.

Please tell me if it works, AND I would like that you upload some presets of your own so I can test it myself.

Thanks

Library_10256.ffxml

Oh, one important thing, before you add the presets to your "My presets" library, make sure FF is NOT running.
If FF is running when you copy the new presets, they won't show up, and when you close FF they will be deleted.

Thank you!

There's another reminder coming your way
I've updated both Volumetric Explosions and Busted Tiles Double Image.
The updates should be in the library soon.

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Morgantao wrote: The presets are saved inside the filter XML file. The author needs to open the filter in a text editor, and copy all the presets to a text file, or post it on the forum. The users can then open their filter in a text editor, and paste all the presets inside the filter XML file. The part of the filter to find and post on the forum (if you're the author), or replace (if your'e a user) is marked by the tag <Presets>. Simply copy\replace EVERYTHING between <Presets> and </Presets> (including the tags).

If I have understood this well THIS is for when you have made your own filter and you made the presets BEFORE making the filter available in the FF library, so obviously you can´t have a "my presets" file.

So here I have copied all the part of the presets I have made inside of uberBlend [STAR 3].ffxml that is available in this direct link

Then I have pasted this in a text file and I upload for you here to try. There are 5 new presets I have made.

And I think that now you should take this text of the presets I have attached here and copy all of this INSIDE of the original uberBlend [STAR 3].ffxml file in the same place that the presets should be.

[ uberblend Star 3 presets.txt ]

SpaceRay, your text file works as advertised
I have 5 new presets, 2 "rings", one long spiral, and 2 shorter spirals.