Height by Mike Blackney

Height by Mike Blackney
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/9149.html

Thanks

Good point, I didn't think of making changes to the Size slider! That could be handy to change, for sure.

Nice!!!

Cool effect.

Skybase, it doesn't crash on my Win XP machine. When does it crash, when you start rendering, or some other time? You might need to post a bug to the Mac forums for GMM to check out.

Looks like a known issue with some scripts working on Windows and failing on Macs.

No, this is not a sriptmaker's fault but that of a third-party Lua library used in our Lua subsystem: unfortunately it has proved to be unstable. I hate to say this, but we know about the issue and we don't know when it will be fixed

Yep, absolutely. I quickly made a variation of your Maze 2D filter that uses Height for its extrusion. I've attached it so you can check it out.

Texture mapping the sides of the extrusion would be harder but possible. It would be much easier if you made the extrusion binary (either extruded or not extruded) which wasn't what I planned for this snippet.

Maze 2D Height.ffxml

Awesome, no doubt we'll see something pretty amazing

If you are using the code in there and need me to explain anything then just ask, I don't know how much coding you normally do and it's probably not very well commented.

Btw, why didn't you implement any aa_zones in this filter?

dilla: do you mean why is AA turned off? I sometimes do that when I think they're not helping much and the filter is faster with them off to remove the second pass (probably much less of an issue in FF3). Sometimes I leave the filter like that by accident, too Or can you manually set areas for antialiasing somehow?

angelboiii: haha thanks!

I keep getting a critical error with this filter.

I have tried to delete it and then redownload/install from the website, and the same error happens. Here is a screenshot.

SpaceRay, thank you for your quick response. I have the current tested version available for download from the site. I actually have never used Filter Forge before today.

I am using FilterForge on a Mac with Photoshop CS5.5.

I will try the filter you suggested and see if it brings about my desired result.

Basically, I am trying to replicate the height effect seen in the photo below. Bevel Emboss doesn't work as it adds a height to all edges. This needs to look as if it is looking from the bottom right of an image.

I think this "Height" filter would be perfect. I just don't know why it is crashing my program.

Hey COConsluting (I hope that's a typo!) you should be able to achieve this whole effect using the Smudge component. This was created in an earlier version of Filter Forge that didn't have them.

I was unable to achieve that effect. Since there is no way of choosing the color of the height, it blends too much into the original image. Doesn't give it that nice crisp drop off as in the original photo. I am still looking through filters to see if I can find one that will work.

Because this thread is getting off topic of this filter, I created a topic in the forums: http://www.filterforge.com/forum/read...&TID=11087

Any additional advice would be most welcome. Thank you.

I have remembered about this filter for making extruding shapes AND found happily that it will work with any shape

for example this Arial font made with the Threedee filter



can be extruded and converted with this filter here and get this

BUT from the two above examples I have shown above, I was is really missing on this snippet is that it ONLY WORKS ON GRAYSCALE, and is not possible in any way to use color input, and any of the colors from the source image are converted to grayscale

It would be very good if you could KEEP the original colors of the source image AND also be able to change the grayscale extrusion effect to any color you may like.

I know that this is a SNIPPET so it is not a fully made filter, and that I should be the one that should ADD this additional features, but as this filter is done with a script I do not know how to modify it

Here below is the FF Lifesaver result from this snippet, but it looses all the colors and have tried to restore them but do not know how to do it, I mean to have the original source colors on the top and the extrusion effect in another possible color as you can see in this example here



I know I could do this very easily with Photoshop or any other of the may extruding software available, BUT I want to it to make a more complex filter inside FF, so I need to make it with FF

Ahoy SpaceRay... you're probably complicating your ambitions over a filter that doesn't deliver what you want to start with. Some of the functionality can be replaced with smudge but given the quality you're looking for, you'll need a different approach.

Aye. That wasn't hard.

this filter seems to be a cool and interesting 3D extrusion tool and from the examples above, it looks good