Installing Filter factory and Paint Engine Filters

Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Needed Items:
  • Filter Factory A - Filter Factory B - Filter Factory G
  • Fantastic Machines Paint Engine
  • Plugin Commander

    Description: Learn to use Plugin Comander (PICO) to convert *.ffl files to *.8bf files and how to install Paint Engine correctly.

  • Just download and unzip the three files to a temporary folder. Download and install Plugin commander or PICO.  PICO is a free program.

    Start PICO, and use its browser to find the ffl files. I use the window on the left side for this. 
    To convert a ffl file now, all you need do is highlight one or more ffl files in the right window, and press the convert button.
    This box will appear allowing you to input the folder in which you want the file(s) to be stored. Type in the right folder path or press the Select Folder button to find the right folder. 

     
    If your version of Fantastic machines paint engine doesn't have any choices when you click the down button here:
    You need to do a little file moving to fix that. 
    Use windows explorer to open your filters folder and search for fmachine.ini.
    Right click on this file and copy it.
    Now use windows explorer to open your windows folder. Right click on a white area of the window and click paste. You shouldn't need to restart pi in order to see the presets there, but you will probably need to cancel your paint engine window and reopen it. 
    This information is in the readme file that comes with fmachine, but if you are like most people you didn't read the read me. LOL
    If you feel comfortable doing it you can open the ini file and paste this in at the bottom so you don't have to insert all the numbers manually for this tutorial. Make sure to do this before you copy and past the file into the windows folder. If you have already installed the ini file to the right folder, paste it into the one in the windows folder instead.
    Setting23=fluff;1,1,0,0,0,0,52,1,22,1,100,388,8,65,2,0,0,0,4294967295,4294967295
    Setting31=puff2;1,1,0,0,0,4,4294967255,4294967264,17,2,100,374,42,86,6,-4,-11,0,7,3


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