YOUR ACCOUNT

Login or Register to post new topics or replies
byRo
an Englishman in Brazil

Posts: 138
Filters: 8
Wood by Kochubey
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/284.html



This is one of the first filters I saw here, and still is one that really impresses me.

Looks more like wood than real wood ever could. smile:)

Rô
_________________________________
My favourite question is "Why?".
My second favourite is "Why not?"
  Details E-Mail
rilos
rilos
Posts: 88
Filters: 9
Yes, thats the filter I like most!
You cant generate lots of different kinds of wood, all looking great and very realistic.

I tried to build some wood-specific improvements, but couldnt yet upload the filters smile:( (due to technical problems).

But what I recognized with this filter:

You get very nice wood-patterns when you set the seamless tiling off and dont set the streting-parameter too high.
When you switch it on (seamless tiling), the pattern changes quite a lot, and gets more unique - loosing its special nice pattern look.

Any solutions for that ?
regards, rilos
  Details E-Mail
Vladimir Golovin
Administrator
Posts: 3446
Filters: 55
Quote
rilos wrote:
the pattern changes quite a lot, and gets more unique - loosing its special nice pattern look.


Well, I'm afraid we cannot do anything about that -- to provide the continuity in both directions, the pattern has to change somehow.

I'd suggest to turn Seamless Tiling on before experimenting with filters, so that you can see the final tiled result.
  Details E-Mail
Kochubey
Filter Forge, Inc.

Posts: 154
Filters: 77
Rô, Rilos -- thanks! It was my first filter smile:)
  Details E-Mail
rilos
rilos
Posts: 88
Filters: 9
@Vlad:
yes, of cause the pattern has to change a bit to get seamless. But the whole general pattern changes a lot. I wonder what kind of technique is used here to generate seamless tiling. I know several other tools to generate seamless tiles out of any kind of photo and it works quite well without changing the overall look.
regards, rilos
  Details E-Mail
Vladimir Golovin
Administrator
Posts: 3446
Filters: 55
Quote
rilos wrote:
wonder what kind of technique is used here to generate seamless tiling.


Filter Forge doesn't "generate" seamless tiles based on non-seamless images, so there is no edge-blending step like you can see in other tools. Every component in Filter Forge produces seamless output when Seamless Tiling is turned on.

In this particular case, the change is probably caused by Perlin Noise and other Perlin-based components (Noise Distortion, Noise Gradient etc) -- when the Scale parameter is set to a relatively high value, turning Seamless Tiling on can cause quite noticeable differences in the noise appearance.

  Details E-Mail
autisticwonder
autisticwonder
Posts: 10
So REAL looking!! LOVE the variations!! Outstanding JOB!!
  Details E-Mail
Kraellin
Kraellin

Posts: 12749
Filters: 99
how very odd that this one doesnt have more comments on it. this one goes waaaay back and is still one of the best wood filters out there. in fact, i think this one goes back to the beta days and it is an outstanding filter! smile:)
If wishes were horses... there'd be a whole lot of horse crap to clean up!

Craig
  Details E-Mail
Kochubey
Filter Forge, Inc.

Posts: 154
Filters: 77
Thanks for the feedback. It’s always nice to get comments about filters I’ve made smile:)
  Details E-Mail
Betis
The Blacksmith

Posts: 1207
Filters: 76


I've started a project of remaking my bedroom in 3D. I live in a 100 year old craftsman house and this filter was exactly what I needed smile:)

I used it to create the diffuse and bump/specular maps for this super dark wood everywhere.
Roses are #FF0000
Violets are #0000FF
All my base are belong to you.
  Details E-Mail
Morgantao
Can't script

Posts: 2185
Filters: 20
Looks really good, I like the render!
  Details E-Mail

Join Our Community!

Filter Forge has a thriving, vibrant, knowledgeable user community. Feel free to join us and have fun!

33,720 Registered Users
+8 new in 7 days!

153,546 Posts
+12 new in 7 days!

15,348 Topics
+70 new in year!

Create an Account

Online Users Last minute:

21 unregistered users.