HWA Request/Idea

I would really like a way to apply a chain of effects to a single object, i made a multi effect image thing here -

http://www.clickteam.com/epicenter/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=115152#Post1151 52

However for that method you cannot make a new layer and use something like contrast but only things that would work as an overlay so limited in what is possible.

But yeah if we could just make a chain/list/array of effects it would be awsome and it would mean that the new HWA feature becomes even more powerful.

Edit -

Also the option to apply something over anything it was on top of would be great as well as the chaining think this way you could use actives as sort of masking tools which would be amazing for any image apps etc.

I hope you like the idea. Thanks :)

i suggested this a while ago; i don't remember exactly why but it'd either be difficult or impossible to implement at this time

it would be nice to see it eventually, though, because it can occasionally be difficult to combine shaders (and it's inefficient sometimes). PS2.0 also has that low instruction limit that makes combinations impossible if the individual shaders are already complex (and ultimately limits the number you can have anyway)

right now i have a shader that handles X/Y flipping, R/G/B channel inversion, and variable desaturation; and i may add more things at some point

hmm odd, well one would think if you had one added it could just make a temp memory version of that applied and apply another over it also, gimp and photshop etc can get very complex for layer effects along with loads of windows apps so if one could not add it in MMF2 sometime it seems a bit odd to me.

But i hope it happens sometime this feature would be great :)

It's not as simple as that, the main use for shaders is in games and performance is paramount; they're programmed to run on graphics hardware and provide special effects at high speed. Photoshop isn't optimised for performance but for flexibility.

Achieving Photoshop-like effects is certainly possible with an extension, but bending shaders to achieve a similar goal is not a realistic option. They exist for different reasons.

Hmm ok, maybe someone will make a module that loads them with static settings or something then if possible so not animated and can be used in layers for a image app etc. Or a extension with a layer effects type setup. I think this would be amazing for graphics applications etc :)