Particle Adapter

I agree, sometimes the Particle Adapter is difficult to deal with or use. In several of my Bomber+ filters I add a Portrait/Landscape checkbox that allows the PA to be bypassed, which allows the filter to be "submitable". A workaround, I guess. Some of this comes down to a tiling philosophy in FF which mandates square images.

I think the philosophy of Bomber+ was to put more of the variations, like tint, up to the programmer. One of the powerful things that you can do with Bomber+ is use the original image for each brush stroke, not a solid color. I did this in Detail Painter. Then for each brush stroke using the original image, I used Randomizers to allow a range of Hue, Saturation, and Lightness variation for each stroke. Very powerful, but all up to the programmer.

*** maybe this belongs in feature requests?! ***

Done. You're right: unfortunately the page move and a few posts were lost on Monday.

Hi SpaceRay. I explain my idea.

I make a simple example composed of a normal Bomber and a Bomber+.
The settings are the sames for both bombers.

As image, I use a white rectangle with two blue stars, so that it is easy to understand what happens.

I firstly show the normal Bomber :

This problem is not caused by the Bomber+ itself, but by the Particle Adapter.
As you can see below, if I jump the Particle Adapter and I connect directly the Image, the result is correct.
The problem is that I get an error message.

This means that, if we don't want that FF Team has to completely remake the Bomber and Bomber+ system, we should find a way for connecting the Image without passing through the Particle plug. Otherwise we will always get the Image deformed by the Particle Adapter.

As I was explaining the beginning of this thread, the Image is generally only used to add color to the particles.
Then, wouldn't be possible to simply reintroduce the Tint input also in the Bomber+ ?

This would allow us to still use the set "Image + Particle Adapter + Center X + Center Y + Lookup", if we want, or to simply plug the Image in the Tint, like we have in the normal Bomber.

I'm back on this subject. With a simple idea.

I use for my example a rectangular image, wider than higher.
I connect the Image to the Bomber Plus through a Lookup, without a Particle Adapter.
The result appear correct, but the connection shows an error.

Then, I add a Scale component after the Particle Adapter. With few corrections of the Scale, Squash and Origin parameters, the result is back to ok.