Filter Forge

[gw_westdale]

Does the Beta have the filter forge linkage - I was going to test that if so  

[Chris B]

I generally install a bunch of plugins, including Filter Forge throughout a beta phase and don't generally hit any issues with them. Are you having any issues with it?

[gw_westdale]

I have FF 12 installed and running under Photo V2.
Not perfectly - I think there is an issue with the bounding rectangle of the selected item but that is for another day and it is running OK.

When I installed the beta V2.1 it did not auto pick up the existing FF.   I was obviously reluctant to do a full reinstall of FF just to create the plugin. I copied the FF 12  folder from C:\Users\westd\.affinity\Photo\2.0\Plugins to C:\Users\westd\.affinity\Photo\2.0 (Beta)\Plugins  but that does not seem to be enough to trigger the link - Nothing shows in the plugins menu in Photo beta.

There may be an issue in that the beta was installed from the EXE as the MX install which failed with a 'something missing' error.
Apologies for ignorance ... assistance welcome 🙂 such as where in the Exe version do I copy the FF12 plugin?

FURTHER

I poked about in the settings of V2.1 beta and discovered that the FF plugin was marked as status Unknown
I set the checkbox to allow unknown filters to run and it now works. It seems that one of the two '.affinity' folders above is being picked up.

[Chris B]

At work, I tend to just add the folder that the app installs into, so for example C:\Program FIles\DxO\ for the NIK fulters. I rarely copy paste anything into the C:\Users\xxx\.affinity\Photo\2.0\Plugins folder

At home, on my personal computer I just add my C:\Program Files folder and it picks up everything in their own install folders.

BTW I use the MSIX installs on my work PC and home PC over the MSI installs and I still don't get any issues so I'm surprised you saw a difference.

[jussi]

I'm using original Google's NIK Collection (v1.2.11) and so far no problem with it while using beta. the Filter Forge works also fine in beta, though I had to manually copy files into Plugin folder. adding just the path didn't work, I got error message when started the plugin ..