To avoid that, Submit Wizard does not allow submission of filters with over 30% of user-defined controls. While excluding some controls from randomization is a good idea for many filters, locking off too many controls may confuse a first-time filter user. If you, as a filter author, want to discourage users from randomizing particular controls, lock these controls before submitting the filter. There’s currently no way for filter authors to permanently prevent a control from being randomized. If you want to know more about how Filter Forge randomizes parameters, there’s also a help link leading you to the relevant article. It has been replaced by a simple, streamlined menu that allows you to set the randomization level, quickly unlock all locked parameters, and revert locks to the default state set by the filter author. The old Randomizer Settings dialog is gone: Note that single-parameter randomizations can be rolled back via the Back button, just as with normal, multi-parameter randomizations. You can do the same via the right-click menu of the parameter: Now you can do this by Ctrl-clicking (or Cmd-clicking on OS X) the parameter you want to randomize. Sometimes it is convenient to quickly randomize a single parameter, without touching the rest.
When you lock a parameter, a little padlock icon appears by the locked parameter’s name, and subsequent clicks on Next Variant or Back buttons will not have any effect on it: Now, in Filter Forge 5.0, you can simply click the parameter name to protect it from randomization. However, up until version 5.0, there was little control over what gets randomized and what stays unchanged with each random iteration. Randomization of filter settings has always been a great way to explore the possibilities of a filter. Filter Forge 5.0 introduces much-requested enhancements to its randomization functions, including the ability to protect filter settings from randomization, the ability to quickly randomize specific parameters, and a simplified randomization settings menu.