Amulet by Miavir

this looks pretty cool Miavir and I'm glad to hear no kalidescope was hurt in the making of this filter LOL

Psstt, make the background have an alpha/transparent switch control so people won't add it and you'll get credit for the usage.

jffe

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Psstt, make the background have an alpha/transparent switch control so people won't add it and you'll get credit for the usage. Wink jffe

The switch you are looking for is named 'Background Opacity', just turn it to 0 and you have what you need Possibly also set 'Field Opacity' to 0 if you want the Field see-through also

not quite sure what you mean by 'one component rotate'. do you mean a component that rotates your image flawlessly? if that's so, it's on the feature list. in the meantime, you can use the 'any angle rotate' snippet in the library.

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StevieJ wrote: Contact FF and ask for a time extension..... Nice Filter!!! Smile

Glad you like the filter, praise from someone with such a high filter count is always appreciated Dunno about the extension, is only fair I pay if I'm actually using the filter, but I don't want to get in the situation where I get a free license and I've allready paid One month is not enough to really get proficient enough at this to make the kind of filter everyone wants to see . Ah well, one tries

P.S. Kraellin, yes thats exactly what I meant. I already use that snippet, twice in fact. To make pentagons, I'd have to use 4, which would mean 34 components added just for one more shape, a tad too exorbitant, and would slow down the filter too much.

i had a look inside this one, miavir. reminds me of something uberzev or crapadilla would make. quite involved. and as i started to go blind looking at this, i decided to close it up and leave it to better minds

i did notice a few things, though. you've got some other shapes in the early parts of that filter that you could exploit quite nicely, which dont show up in the later parts. and very clever, btw. i'm not good with making shapes like this, so i'm always quite impressed where others can do these like this.

and as for the any angle rotate, quite right; it does get cumbersome putting a lot of those in there. but, i'm pretty sure the future will see a remedy for all that. i do remember discussions in the forums about this. so, i'm fairly sure we'll see something down the road.

Hey Miavir – this is amazing! Such an ambitious project for your first filter – I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with next.

Nice job.

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ronviers wrote: Hey Miavir – this is amazing! Such an ambitious project for your first filter – I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with next. Nice job. Smile

Thanks for your compliments. If truth be told, its my third filter though, the first was a rework of Persidio's Gold Chain that I'm not sure is diffrent enough from it to merrit reposting. The second <sigh> just got rejected the second time And I thought I had the render time problem under control this time around. Oh well, if you dont at first suceed, try try again. That is for tomorrow though

As to ambitious, nah, that might go for the rejected filter, this filter is just a small trick with lots of feeps and cotrols added. It took me about a week to make Amulett, whereas I've been working on the other one for almost the full month.

What I come up with next we'll see, I have a few Ideas, but might need to wait to relize them, two days left on trial period. Can anyone tell me roughly how long it takes for a filter to reach 'high' usage rate,.. if it ever will ?

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Kraellin wrote: ok, i managed to trim 14 components from this, dropping the rendering time on my machine from 4 min 44 secs to 3 min 11 seconds. that was on the default preset with anti-aliasing left on. so, no tricks of just turning off anti-aliasing

Ok, had a closer look at your changed version. First off, neat idea of doing what I do though blends through a Profile gradient. Sadly though, it doesn't quite work, the problems only show up if Spoke Excentricity is set to something other than zero. Since I don't have many presets using that, no wonder you missed it. However, look at preset 15 to see the diffrence.

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Kraellin wrote: and, i only have one caveat in the re-working. the presets are slightly different now. i think i forgot to hook up one control somewhere, but it's very close to the same look, just some slightly different variations of the original presets. if you can find that one control and hook it back up it might be the same.

That turned out to be several things at once. First off, you reduced 'Spoke Pattern Select' from haveing 6 values to choose from to only 4, and at that, setting to 4 gave you the pattern that used to be on 5, so all presets with patterns 4-6 looked diffrent. Second. the Threshold you inserted near the start shaved width off the spoke circles, making them look diffrent. Third, the presets seem to have had several values all reset to starting values, namely Spoke Bevel Select, Spoke Width, Spoke Shape, Spoke Size, Spoke Radius Offset, Spoke Excentricity, and Frame Bevel Select. After that, it was no wonder things looked off. I've updated your version to do the spoke pattern correctly, and copied in the correct values for Presets 1,2,and 15 by hand. Then removed the spoke width shaving, but I'm not sure that Spoke Excentricity can be done the way you did without putting the components you removed right back in. Anyhow, here is that modified version if you want to have a look (it also has some other experimental stuff :

Amulet rev 1f.ffxml

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Kraellin wrote: in that inner octagon where the center is all blue. the outer ring to that now doesnt seem to match up as well in the top half to the bottom half symmetrically.

I don't follow what you are talking about ? Which preset and where ?

At any rate, since the modded version is now slower than the original, no need to keep working with it when the original is better.

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Kraellin wrote: well, if nothing else, it was an interesting exercise for me and perhaps you got something out of it as well and if so, then it was worth the time and effort even if i didnt quite 'correct' the speed

For me, it showed me that trick of using a Profile gradient to Blend, which was worthwile in itself. Anyhow, wish me luck on the next two filters I'm submitting

I did NOT expect this to hit HU anymore so long after posting. Thanks people, you know who you are