Steampunk Panel by Mongoose King

Steampunk Panel by Mongoose King
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/10298.html

Another killer filter from the king himself
Love that texture!

I like how you got different degrees of grunge on the frame, rivets and center of this filter. Great job.

Like it... I'm sure game devs are going to like this alot too...

Also working on the circular version...

Thanks very much for the round one, is also very well done as the first one, now is only the deliciously looking scratched grunge metal version.

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Mongoose King wrote: it currently takes about 15 mins to render a 512X512

WOW !

Perhaps another way and temporal fix and solution until you get the real one better, could probably be to apply one (or many) scratched textures to the filter above using blend modes, and change the brown textured background for a real photo textured one (instead of generating it inside FF)

I like the new one VERY much. It looks more realistic than the older one. Hope you can get the render times down, although what's 15 minutes among friends

Good enough for me. When will you upload?

The other filter has a different way of doing things, it's a lot more complex and the controls are pretty wacky anyway, so I decided to add circle mode in the same filter, the way the other one works, there's one a couple of different controls for the circle mode.

I just have to add the alpha options and I think that's it.

I implemented a nice little fix for the problem that you see in the circle version of this one when you get two rows of rivets, where the inner row is slightly squashed and oval, the new one has less rivets in inner rows so there's no distortion.

Hopefully should have it done tomorrow.

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Here's a test of the other filter in round mode.

WOW !! Love it much!! Very nice and wonderful ! Great work and excellent effect

The rust and scratches are controlled by the user ? I mean if you can add more or less of them, Have it full of scratches and rust or have none ?

One question or suggestion, I have seen that the great and nice texture of the original Steampunk Panel is generated totally with FF components, and I like it much, BUT I wonder and ask if probably could there be a way to import and use your own textures.

I mean that for example in the excellent www.cgtextures.com website you can look in the "metals" category and see "leaking", or go to the "Rust" category and have lots more textures. Many of this are seamless, or you can convert them to seamless easily.

As you have done a very good and wonderful work making this panels with all the lovely rivets, it would be also very good to have an option to change the texture used in the same way that you have the option to change the color of the texture.

This could be probably a very good thing, at least from my point of view.

And as I said, I am telling that I do not like your beautiful FF own generated texture, I am suggesting to expand and make it even better

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Here below I put a screenshot of what I mean

interesting ideas..

I just submitted the grungey filter.

I think the texture idea could be good, I think in a new filter tho, that does some other things. I've been pondering using the rectangles and polygons in V2 to put the rivets on a bigger variety of places and use the bomber or the arrange grid snippet to place more detailed bolts and screws. Will have to put those ideas in a new filter.

That second to last picture is exactly the kind of thing I'm thinking of for a more advanced kind of filter. I'd really like to have a filter that makes a similar sort of thing with panels and rivets and maybe pipes and other things. At the moment when I want a nice interior wall for a steampunk building or ship, I usually make a metal background with filter forge then plop down panels that i cut out from royalty free images like ones from cgtextures.

If you've seen Total Control by Carl, then imagine the same sort of thing but with rusty industrial machinery, rather than switches.

This is great, Mongoose King!
Congratulations!

The only thing I could suggest is that you upload the filter to the forim and have the masters check it out and see how they could make it faster with all their FF wizardry.
Too bad, it looks MUCH better than anything else on the FF library.

Also, it's kinda stupid if you ask me to reject a filter for speed... Some people have faster computers, some have time to waste, and in any case, the speed issue is a FF inc. problem to solve (CUDA anyone?).
You can't reject filters for being slow and then do NOTHING about speeding things up!

I am sorry for you that they have rejected your beautyful and lovely grungre panel, and only because is too slow.

Please, what is considered TOO SLOW for FF Inc. ? There are many filters in the Library that are very slow and they are already in the library.

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Also, it's kinda stupid if you ask me to reject a filter for speed... Some people have faster computers, some have time to waste,

YES, I agree, it should be leaved to the FF user to decide if it is too slow or not. Or they could accept it BUT put a warning sign telling, "This filter could be probably very slow in your computer" or anything else that could let you know BUT do not reject it only for this UNLESS is a really very slow filter and would take LOT of time to do something.

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and in any case, the speed issue is a FF inc. problem to solve (CUDA anyone?). You can't reject filters for being slow and then do NOTHING about speeding things up!

YES, is true the problem probably is NOT ONLY that the filter itself is slow, is ALSO that the FF Engine can´t make it run faster, and is NOT optimized for getting the most of todays much powerful computers in a good way. Yes I know that it can use ALL the CPU cores available, BUT only uses 1,5 GB RAM and can´t use any of the Graphics cards features for getting faster graphics.

CUDA Anyone ? Do not expect to be for FF, as they have already said that it will not be possible to use it because on how FF has been built and developed.

Hey Mongoose, maybe you can have a "preview" option that will cut down dramatically on the render time like in Emme's 2.5D Terrain filter.
That way you can cheat the submition wizard into letting you submit this wonderful filter.

Yep, looks real good, no reason not to include it in the library.
I'd contact the support team. If you do it now maybe when the weekend is over it will be up

This filter has won one of my own SA Awards

Congratulations and thanks very much for creating this filter that are so creative, with many possible ways and variations and so very well done. Love it much.

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Any further info on this? If the super-high detail (slow render) version isn't uploaded here, could you upload it elsewhere? smile:)

Well, actually, thanks to increasing computing power, the grunge panel is now not too slow, and has been accepted. https://www.filterforge.com/filters/12943.html