Ferninator by BenBeckwith

Looks interesting. We definitely need more of these plant generators...

absolutely brilliant! and i agree with dilla, more of this type would be great.

just one caveat to the filter; the presets show the background as transparent but the rendering actually puts the life preserver into the background. there is a way around this without much tinkering, but i forget what it is at the moment. you can do it with a transparent background image, but seems there was another solution somehwere here on the site... i think it had to do with adding an image component. the site's running slowly right now and i'm having troulbe finding the post where this was mentioned.

I don't think there is anything to fix.

In standalone, the default image ALWAYS is the lifesaver, and consequently that is what the leaf get composited over.

[Craig was just too lazy to change it... ]

Furthermore, if you added an image component, the filter would automatically become an effect filter, which it obviously isn't.

Yup, I remember shaking my head over that thread, but I can't seem to find it either...

and here's another, but i dont think this was the one i was looking for either http://www.filterforge.com/forum/read...essage1655

Wow this one really does rock

Thank you!

I've made some before this, i just never added parameters to submit.
I guess I'll just leave this one the way it is (with the lifesaver) for now.

FF is pretty much the best program ever

Yeah, though if i wanted to go for ultra realism i think i could have made it more so. I don't think the filter structure is too bad as far as complexity goes (yeah it's a mess). Im sure it could be optimized. Probably looks very unfriendly to others, even i have to figure out wtf i did if i havent worked on a filter like this in a while. But if that's what it takes... hehe. (I've got worse)

oh, and check out my new barber pole filter. one of the things i purposely did with that one was to put in showing how to remove the background image when you want the background to come up transparent. it's quite simple and shldnt hurt your filter.

Yeh great first [ submitted ] filter looking forward to seeing your future filters

Great filter BenBeckwith..Welcome to the fun also..
Just a quick observation. If you flip it horizonal might be able to make some eyelashes out of it..

A lot of praise has already been said for this... needless to say... I'm just gonna download it and enjoy! Should make some plantgenning a lot easier.

Also very kewl to hear the creative suggestions that are coming out here.