Be able to activate/deactivate controls so does not appear in settings

5 REASONS TO WHY I REQUEST THIS AND WOULD BE USEFUL AND INTERESTING


1 - MAKE SIMPLE AND EXTENDED VERSIONS IN THE SAME FILTER

If you could choose which controls can be showed in the settings tab, you could make filters that could be at the same time simple, extended and advanced versions inside the same filter, I mean that you could have a simple version with few controls, and then you could activate the extended part if you want to have more controls, or a possible advanced version.

For example, for making this, you would have 2 (or 3) different versions of the same filter, and then choose with a checkbox with one to use with different controls each one

2 - ADD ADDITIONAL ADJUSTMENTS THAT CAN BE SWITCHED ON/OFF

You could add additional adjustment components like Levels, hue, saturation, etc. and you could activate them only when you need them

3 - VERY USEFUL ALSO FOR AVOIDING RANDOMIZATION PROBLEMS

As there is still no randomization locks and no news about when they will be available, this would be a good alternative to avoiding the problems with the randomizer (next variant button), as if the settings does not appear in the settings tab, they can´t be randomized

4 - OFFER A FILTER WITH ALTERNATIVE WAYS TO USE IT USING IT´S OWN SPECIFIC SETTINGS ON EACH PART

Give the possibility of adding alternative ways to use the filter, I mean for example if a filter is based around a shape, you could offer different alternative shapes to work with the filter, each shape could have specific, separate and own controls that could be only shown when this shape is selected.

5 - ALTERNATIVE COMPONENTS WITH IT´S OWN CONTROL EACH ONE THAT WOULD BE ACTIVATED ONLY WHEN CHOOSING IT


You could make a filter that have for example 5 different noise type, and each noise component or group of components could have it´s own specific controls for that part of the filter

So you could use for example five noise sources as base for the filter efect to work, and if do it now in this way, ALL the controls of ALL five noise components will be shown in the settings tab and would be confusing to know which one to use, so this way having the ability to show ONLY the active controls from that noise selected would be much better, easier and cleaner.

USING ALTERNATIVE WAYS WITH SCRIPTS DOES NOT HIDE CONTROLS

Disabling Filter part when parameter is at zero?

I have found this thread that uses alternative ways to disable parts of a filter, but although this works, it will not disable any control attached to the disabled part

OTHER THREADS EXPLAINING THIS MAYBE BADLY AND CONFUSING

Switch on/off or activate/desactivate settings inside Groups in FF 4.0

Some way to hide filters settings panel from excluding components?

Please, How to make a switch to enable/disable components results ?

It's already been suggested (Feature Wishlist), but still...

A very important feature to have!

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