Why I can´t submit an update to a filter that was updated today

SpaceRay, I'm afraid there is a problem with your submissions. We're investigating it, I'll post when I have any news.
UPD: could you please post the .ffxml here or send it to the support team.

You are not doing anything wrong – but your XML is incorrectly processed by the library server.

I have tried to submit a new filter based on an alternative to this filter above and happens exactly the same, I can´t submit it, even when the filter is not the same.

I have tried to change the name, and tried some different things, but none of them work, and still can´t submit the filter, I can reach to the end of the submit wizard after the render but then get an error.

I have made a new basic version to be submitted instead of the original update but I still can´t submit the update as I have tried today

Also could not submit a different new filter based on this same filter BUT I could submit a filter that is NOT based in any external image and is a Texture Filter.

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GMM Well, after 7 years of commercial FF availability and almost 10,000 filters created, you, SpaceRay, were the first to change the filter type in a filter update This was not expected and caused some weird stuff to happen on the library server.

Sorry that I do not understand what you mean with that I changed the filter type in the filter update, is it that in the submit wizard I changed the category of the filter and have choosen a different category type? The filter is Effects --> Misc

If yes, it could be done that the original filter type is already selected as it happens with the name of the filter if it is an update

If this is not what I have done, and is something inside the filter, I do not know what I did change in the filter for this to happen

So I have found a bug in the filter server? bug point for me found by mistake

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GMM Using Color controls with enabled external images should class the filter as an Effect filter. FF 3.015 does this correctly and submits an Effect filter to the library server, where our server-side library from 4.007 incorrectly treats the filter as a texture. Due to this inconsistency the filter integrity check fails, and submission is rejected.

So this means that ANY Effects filter using color controls submitted to the filter library with FF 3.015 will be rejected until it is fixed?

Thanks for fixing it

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GMM Quote SpaceRay Sorry that I do not understand what you mean with that I changed the filter type in the filter update You added one or more Color controls with enabled external images in this update, right? This changed the filter class from Texture to Effect (but was not processed correctly on the server as I wrote above).

Sorry that I still do not understand what you mean, because the original filter without the update was already an Effects filter as it already included 11 color controls with enabled external images (loaded with FF built-in images) so I did not change this, and there is no added color control as there is still 11 color controls in the update

Here I upload the original filter without the update that was in the filter library BEFORE it was updated

10 Images or Photo Stripes Mix (1).ffxml

And you can see that the version that is already in the Filter Library does not have any other NEW added color controls only have many more new offsets to distribute the color controls

I still think that I did not change the filter in a radical way as I have put in the post above so the server gets "crazy" and got confused with my filter, and the proof is the filters I have uploaded above with the before and after filters.

Although maybe the problem maybe that the only Effects component is the color control without adittional "effects components" that I have not added

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GMM Quote SpaceRay So this means that ANY Effects filter using color controls submitted to the filter library with FF 3.015 will be rejected until it is fixed? Not exactly: if you include an Image, Selection, Average Color, Minimum Level or Maximum Level component the filter will be correctly recognized as an Effect. However if the only Effect component is a Color control, such Effect filters will be rejected until the issue is fixed.

So, does it mean that if inside the filter I include any of these components the submit wizard will be able to sucess in the update to the server?

Well, I can try it and see if it works, thanks.

SpaceRay, please refrain from submitting any filters until we release an update to Filter Forge 4 (that performs processing on the server side).

Thanks very much for the good news, I have already done it now and IT WORKS right!!

Thanks for the FF team for fixing this