I just squashed a bug in one of my characters. And I noticed something that FF3's State Controllers could use.
Some, like TargetDrop, will produce debug flood if you dont have certain triggers to stop it.
2OS was kind enough to make this post a while back that shows how to stop the flood.

I think it'd be super useful if FFS came with updated state controllers with common TriggerAll = commented out.
Also, If Ignore hitpause and persistent were preloaded with non-default values but still commented out it'd help out a lot. Something like

Spoiler: TargetDrop (click to see content)

Code:

[State 0, TargetDrop]
type = TargetDrop
;triggerall = numtarget
trigger1 = 
excludeID = -1
keepone = 1
;ignorehitpause = 1
;persistent = 1

The only reason I say to add the non-default values is because when they get commented in, it's to switch to being on.  I'd say 99.9% of the time I use ignorehitpause I set the value to 1.

If this sounds like a good idea, and you don't want to do the edits let me know how I can do them so you can use the changes and I'll do it.

Will I have to uninstall FF3 to use FFS? (Not ForFucksSake)

Also, Will I be able to import my *.ffc3 file(s)? Not that making 12 set-ups to launch to debug is a big deal. I was just wondering.

Cool that we are getting a new version soon, great work so far VirtuallTek.
I'd like to report a bit of a bug, that happens only with specific images (not indexed Png images) and Fighter Factory 3's crop tool.
I do not know if that was corrected in the new version, but hey, here we go:

Sometimes when you use the crop tool to trim the image, it also deletes some of the "actual" used pixels in the image. It's kinda hard to explain so I recorded it happening, and i'll provide the same image for test purposes. That's can be really annonying if you work with 8-bit Png Effects for example, and every time you use that tool you get some images that are getting trimmed away, which can be really troublesome if you don't have a backup of your effects.

This does not happen with all 8-bit png images, as showed in the video, just with some of them.

Spoiler, click to toggle visibilty

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOWF79w3-7Y[/youtube]

https://s10.postimg.org/smq3ylr6x/image.png

That's bout it. Keep up the good work!

Hi ''VirtuallTek'' I have another tip, of course if you find it interesting, if you can add it to the program or if you want:

It is the option to be able to add image conversion plugins same exists in photoshop, or add more image plugins in the program itself when changing the size of the image, type the '' alien skin blow up 3 '' the '' OnOne.Perfect .Resize.Premium.Edition.v9.5.0.1640.x64 '' the '' VHRUnsharpMask '' and the ''XBR 4x [NoBlend]'' 'plugin that comes bundled with the program ImageResizer-r133.exe'
If you can add this option in Fighter Factory Studio it will greatly help people who use the program to create or edit chars and easily convert the images to HI-RES, filtered images etc.
This will give you more features and more attention to game publishers.

A simple request. (hopefully)
In Image Editor. Image>Properties Ctrl+P
The pop up box. Can you make O, or Alt+O, or Ctrl+O, activate the OK box, and C, or Alt+C, or Ctlr+C activate the Cancel box.
Switching from keyboard to mouse sucks when you do a ton of images in Image Editor.

I've a request too: the function of searching for certain "types" (trans, screenbound, etc.) simultaneously in a cns file. It can be useful when you need to convert a character to mugen 1.0.

Can we please move the "Close all other projects" button FAR away from the save buttons? I get tired of accidentally clicking it trying to save =p

haha holy shit, i totally 4got about MCM and Z-CharCAD! and that other one, what was it? like N.O.M.E.N or something, for creating the sffv2 files.
Man i stopped touch those like a squillion years ago. Praise Virtualtek, and praise GABEN

I can surely say you made a great job! And it was an honor to beta test your work again
Now I think you could post your Patreon page, because I think you deserve support for such hard work all over the years.

since you allow people to edit images we it would if cool if you can add the line tool where you can ether have a straight line or curve lines for those who want to edit more without going back and forth to fighter factory and paint programs

Hi VirtuallTek and testers, good updates to make, or add to the new Fighter Factory program if you want:

I do not know if I can say that and whether you will be welcome or not, or can help improve the program. Or maybe I'm late to say that. But who knows the creator of the program see this or the people who test the program before launching can speak this to the creator of the program, but anyway it goes there:

There is an option that does not currently exist in Fighter Factory 3 and would be great for anyone who wants to convert chars to HI-RES using only the program '' Fighter Factory 3 '' and '' ImageResizer-r133.exe '':

That is to add an option to select multiple groups at the same time in the '' Image Editor / File / Open from / Current Group ''
Already after I select several groups I could go in the part: '' Image / Properties '',
And change the image background size of all those selected group at the same time.
And then go into '' Image / Resize '' and be able to resize all these groups of images at the same time.
Then in the end we go in the part that already exists that is '' Save one or more sprites as image file '' and select the '' Everything '' option.

Soon if those new options were created it will save a lot of people time to convert chars images to HI-RES.

By the way, when you say "unrelated to programming," what do you mean?

Very excited about the source code becoming available, any idea for when that might take place?

I haven't read to check if anyone else has asked this but, will there be a 64bit version?

Either way, Really looking forward to this Virtualtek, you're a true legend XD
Even the current version is awesome enough but to hear about all these improvements & high DPI support is awesome.
Keep up the good work!

Odb718 said, February 04, 2018, 01:50:16 pm

@VirtuallTek: Sweet Jesus I almost forgot to request an old feature be put back in!!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make it so if I don't have the default palette selected, the animations will play with that palette!
Like if palette 1,4 is active in Sprites and I switch to Animations it doesn't go back to 1,0.

Yes please!! I'm with Odb718 on this one! I totally forgot about that small issue! And will this update fix a bug where if you edit the fighter's .def in Fighter Factory and try to close that fighter's tab, the app will crash.

@VirtuallTek: are you making changes in the remappal tool? It would be extremely useful to have more than 5 colors selected at once, since many chars use more than 5 shades of color

I wouldn't spend too much time on the auto-CLSN thing. Just toss in the algorithm you used last time (unless you REALLY want to have fun having it detect perfectly the non-alpha regions of sprites and creating the boxes to fill that area since that is an interesting problem).

Also, if you need ANY testing, especially on macOS, I'd be more than happy to help! I've helped you the last few times and feel it's only appropriate that I continue doing so! I also have a lot more experience debugging than I did 9 years ago.

When I tried to use the auto generation of clsn boxes it'd pump out 20 to 30 boxes.
I think if you do put it in, it should have a pop up box asking the number of boxes to produce.
Either that or do 3 or 4 maximum.

@VirtuallTek
sry if my explaination somehow hard to understand,if the words i use in my post offended you,i apologize
i don't speak engish too well and my vocabulary is limited
if the forget thing gets to you i apologize,i just can't explain very well about the matter, so it would be better to forget about it
i hope this time you understand what i'm trying to say

about the crop thing,i was hoping maybe you can add another option
an option so the croping can occur 5 pixel before the edge of the croping take place[left,right,up,down]
that 5 is just for example

if it can't be done or you still dont get what i'm saying...let's forget together.

i'm just glad that you actually going to update ff3
good luck with the update

32 bit png palette editor possible?

Well... I'm not here to make complaints or give suggestions to this program, but to thank for several hours in which I could take advantage of free time for single editions or full chars ... Thank you Virtualltek, for creating this a creation machine called Fighters Factory, from the first or "classic", to Ultimate and FF3, the tool that has always evolved according to the evolution of the MUGEN engine ... For this creation there is a Brazilian who works and during his spare time tries some basic issues, where he ends up having an option, since where I live what can be done to pass the time is somewhat scarce (Or the person goes to the world of crime or turns drunk hahaha), where I ended up knowing and like this creative machine ... No more words, "É Nois" ...

Spoiler: PTBR, meu inglês é uma bosta, pura tradução (click to see content)

Bom... Não estou aqui para fazer queixas ou então dar sugestões a este programa, mas sim para poder agradecer por várias horas em que eu pude aproveitar fazendo edições simples ou chars completos... Obrigado Virtualltek, por ter criado esta maquina de criação chamada Fighters Factory, desde a primeira ou "classic", a Ultimate e a FF3, a ferramenta que sempre evoluiu de acordo com a evolução da engine MUGEN... Por essa criação existe um brasileiro que trabalha e durante as horas vagas tenta algumas edições básicas, onde ele acaba tendo uma opção, já que onde moro o que se pode fazer para passar o tempo é um tanto como escasso (Ou a pessoa vai para o mundo do crime ou vira um cachaceiro, as opções são as bocas e os butecos hahaha), onde acabei conhecendo e gostando dessa máquina de criação... Sem mais palavras, "é nois"...

VirtuallTek said, January 18, 2018, 03:12:09 am

mr_bourrepalestick said, January 16, 2018, 10:40:00 pm

Do you mean we would be able to reorganize statedefs' order, or even drag and drop statedef sections between multiple cns files with some kind of tree panel ?? THAT WOULD BE AWESOME !

I'm already dreamin, so i'll go even further with a suggestion :
Would it be possible to display 2 cns files (edit: 2 cns files from 2 different projects), one next to the other, like for a comparison sake ?
(like in Notepad++ . I have very little coding software experience, so that's the only example that came into my mind)

Thank you once more for all your efforts and also for your time to answer us here in the forums.

No, haha. About the split view for two files, I will put it on my to do list.

I'm running Fighter Factory on macOS right now.  So, a version for this system is likely to be released too.
Thanks!

Thank you for your answers ! :°) 
And cool to hear about macOS ! If i'm not mistaken, that means it could also run under Linux systems without going through WINE (as macOS has a Linux core) ? That'd be really cool !

Thanks once more and keep it up VirtualTek !
Cheers

VirtuallTek said, December 25, 2017, 02:28:16 am

Planned features for the second release:
- BGs editor (for stages and motifs, timeline-based editing of bg controllers)
- Simulation mode (built-in lightweight implementation of Mugen finite state machine for faster development and debugging (breakpoints ) )

THIS! Is really going? Thatd be some serious workflow improvement
Also many thanks for FF best software i have used (using since first one)

Keep up the good work

Am I too late for the party?
I'm so glad to see you back, VirtualTek!
There sure are so many future updates.

hello VirtuallTek

for convenient sake, can you add a feature to convert all/group of 8 bit sprites into 32
also resize all/group of sprites if possible.

auto semi trans pal based on the image transparency when indexing with ff3...hope you get waht i mean
if you dont get it or it's not possible...then nvm,don't know if ppl would find it useful...well,who knows.

more option for indexing/pal editor, i use xnview sometimes if i want to make pal from a 32bit image
just so i can arranged the color with less effort and time later on with ff3.

pal based on an image, lets say there's this image represent a pal structure
if ff3 able to adopt it as pal that would be awesome.

can you also make ff3 able to merge 2 project into 1
i mean merge the sprites,this should probably come in handy for those who would like to do cs
i can only do copas 1 by 1 on ff3[copy from 1 project and then paste to the other]
maybe i missed something?...or maybe i jsut don't know waht i'm doing,i use only ff3 when tried to do cs btw
and dont follow any tutorial...i was just messing with this app,now i'm not sure if it's a good idea.

current ff3 is great already
just suggestion, dont know if those can be done

tyvm

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This function is very polemic , but I will try to add it back.

Oh God, please no. People will use it in the wrong way and blame the tool for it.

I am beta testing this tool and I can say that VT is making a GREAT work!

DOY said, April 21, 2015, 12:45:46 am

I can send you an Air File with Error

Here my explain: in FF3 is the " Auto CLSN Kartograph "  sadly missed
(this was very very good function, if the mugen creator knows to use it. )

But all air files with moves who are generated by "Auto CLSN Kartograph" crash FF3 by loading the Air file

can this be fixed without fighter factory crashes?

will an internet address go online again when fighter factory is published?
http://www.virtualltek.com/

One idea that came to mind while typing this,

Could you make it so if I do search for
500]
and the creator uses multiple CNS, the Find function will search and put an alert or change the tab color of another CNS file that contains 500]?

It should work just like normal, but maybe change the tab to yellow or something. Maybe a ! or * on the CNS that has it?
One reason is Common.cns. If a creator has the standard states outside of their common file it'd be nice to know with just one search. I've had it where I edit the common file to fix a problem, but mugen is using the statedef in the main cns file. After some aggravation I figure it out and fix it. I've had more than a few people in Dev Help with the same problem.

Do you mean we would be able to reorganize statedefs' order, or even drag and drop statedef sections between multiple cns files with some kind of tree panel ?? THAT WOULD BE AWESOME !

I'm already dreamin, so i'll go even further with a suggestion :
Would it be possible to display 2 cns files (edit: 2 cns files from 2 different projects), one next to the other, like for a comparison sake ?
(like in Notepad++ . I have very little coding software experience, so that's the only example that came into my mind)

Thank you once more for all your efforts and also for your time to answer us here in the forums.

I apologize in advance if this had already been suggested.

How about a way to quickly bring up / load the page of the documentation of an sctrl upon ctrl + clicking on it?
Basically the idea would be similar to how one could ctrl + click on a function in a coding IDE to bring up its declaration.

vgma2 said, January 12, 2018, 06:53:21 am

To add onto that, maybe a way to quickly jump to a state when ctrl + clicking on a place where it's used?
I'd imagine that it would be difficult to detect which values are supposed to represent a state, and which state to jump to if a lot of math is involved.  But maybe this could work for simple ChangeStates, where the state to change to is a specific value.

I do this by just using the Find button. Say I'm launching a helper 1650 and now I need to jump to that statedef. I just type in
1650]
in Find and press Enter. 9 times out of 10 times it jumps to the exact spot I need. The 1 out of 10 is because I need to go to statedef 400, or something very similar, and it jumps me to 1400]. Pressing Enter a second time gets me to 3400], but the 3rd time cycles back up and brings me to [Statedef 400].
Now that I'm thinking about it.

Can you make it so when you highlight something and press Ctrl+F it copies it to the Find box and searches??

@VirtuallTek: Did you see my last two suggestions?

Was "replace from other project" already suggested? And any chance of an auto save function that can be toggled on and off?

Now that i think about it, there is a thing i'm gonna do by hand, that could be helpful if automated.

For my project i'm going to prepare, alongside with spritesheets, ( SFF ) a text file, i call it: "Presumed collision info" where i store the CLSN boxes used in a sprite, in the end it kinda looks like a AIR paragraph where the cels of the SFF are listed as if they were part of the animation that would be obtained by sliding from first to last.
When i'll do a new move in the AIR, i'll pick the CLSN from said file, because there will be a lot of reuse. (perhaps even more than Guile's "Jack-knife kick" sprite in SF2, ghghgh! )

Basically what i'm doing is like putting the CLSN in the SFF, and when i use a cel in the AIR, i'll check if i'm happy with the "presumed" position and CLSN

Generating a "Presumed Collisions Info" file (that is absolutely not needed for a character) by putting "fake" CLSN in the SFF editor alongside with the SFF and then putting a button in the AIR editor that retrieves the presumed position and CLSN info for that particular cel may help spare time in character that reuse the cels a lot.

^
Sounds like you're suggesting being able to save CLSN data as "Favorites"?

I really like that idea.  But in my mind, I'm thinking it would be a windowed list where you can save (or remove) CLSN data while giving it a meaningful title.
So I might save anim 0 CLSN as "Stand".  Then anywhere I want I could choose "Stand" from the window and it would apply that CLSN.

*fingers crossed* that would be awesome

Edit Or, at least, it would be nice to be able to choose an anim/animelem to copy the CLSN from, instead of having to enter the text editor to select/copy/paste.

I actually made something similar for my engine (Blugen) that's stored in the .AIR file: stand, air, and crouch defaults.

I found a while back that you can actually store a lot of data in MUGEN's files and it won't break anything. Its parser only looks for data it can recognize, so you can easily add things such as this to be forward-compatible and whatnot. In other words, you can totally add what I just said to a .AIR file and MUGEN won't complain. It also won't complain if you do this in a .def file: