a little help

hey all!

im kinda new around FF and i had a quick question about creating a filter. i have seen alot of filters that look like they are reflecting light from a source somewhere. i was wondering how to get that look.

any help is greatly appreciated!

also: how do i get the sort of "wet" look?

that helps immensely! i guess i should go and update my icy distortion filter now...

thanks much!!

and when you get done exploring what jffe suggested, take a look at high pass mixed with refraction

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Skaara wrote: a question tto jffe: when i change it to surface all i get is a purple box with an exclamation point in it and the render time increases dramatically. also the finla render doesnt even show my original filter. is there anything im doing wrong?

----You just plug your design or whatever into the purple box (Surface Color), and then you are required to have something defining the Height, that can be mapped with a component (ie = any component, including one that is not the same as the one you plug in the Surface Color input). You should probably browse the filterwiki, as Crapa and Vlad have written more eloquently and in-depth about these things than I can. The render time for Surface filters can be as little as an extra 10%-15% all the way up to doubling the render time, it really varies and has to do with a lot of things, in general, I expect a Surface filter to take 1.5X plus as long to render, so I make sure it has to have some chrome shine, or that extra depth, if I am going to go that route instead of using some offset shadows on a Simple style filter, to make it render faster.

jffe