The Orb by ronviers

Quote
ronviers wrote: I'm concerned about your concern for Matt Serra's arse. What about it specifically has you so worried? Is it the broader fleshy parts of his arse or are you talking rectal area? Don't tell me it's the pucker – I don't even want to go there.

I'm not gay!!! - Al Bundy (my hero) from "Married With Children"..... LMAO.....

Quote
ronviers wrote: "the lady doth protest too much"

Hey, let's keep my feminine side out of it.....everyone has one!!! LOL...

Quote
ronviers wrote: I only get one channel - PBS. With rabbit ears in Western Oklahoma there is not much to choose from.

Wow!!! You must really be out in the sticks, eh??? I actually enjoy getting away from the real world like that when I go on vacation.....there's nothing I like more than pitching a tent and relaxing for a week or so next to mountain pools and waterfalls.....cleans the soul.....

Wow my very own orbs, that was very kind

Tv is the devils work


no bottom talk before I have breakfast please

Quote
StevieJ wrote: I actually enjoy getting away from the real world like that when I go on vacation..

That is nice

Quote
ronviers wrote: It's based on preset 5

I've been having a play, excellent

Quote
ronviers wrote: Why didn't someone tell me? Now I'm having it reconnected

Good, come to the light brother, don't let the darkside drag you back, listen and you will hear the grass move, the crickets chirp, your thoughts clearing....... another truck going past, the neighbours arguing, some one playing doof doof .... oh god turn it back on

Quote
ronviers wrote: Not enough symmetry for popular appeal but personally I like it best.

Your alteration to your original filter are good at widening it's appeal - I wonder how if the little orbs were embeded into a background as an option [ like steel, wood, pattern or some real world suitable texture etc ] it would go, probly make render times ridiculous, just a thought

You know, I remember this one from quite a while back. There may be something I could do, reversing the roughness from the inside to the outside. When I get some time I will look into it.
Thanks for the idea.

Quote
Carl wrote: I can image you could make an excellent gem generator

I wish I could just do filters all the time. This one was a reward for wrapping up a tutorial I had been working on. I allowed myself 3 hours of ff-ing and three Hershey bars with almonds - damn I miss those Hershey bars. Why did I have to eat them all at once?
Now I have to stop screwing around and get back to work.

Having a bit of fun with your orbs the background came out light in the post

I like how the first one has a kind-of abstract crustacean look about it. But I really like how you have managed to crack some of the orblets on the second one.
I had a quick go at getting one of them to crack open this morning but orbs are surprisingly hard – like diamonds or something. I just managed to get the inside to crack and it took tremendous pressure. I see you were able to crack the surface.

When are you going to learn to take care of things?! If I told you once I told you a millions times that you can't plug orblets into strange components. You knew they could get broken and now they're broken. Tisk tisk …

I had just finished packing up some Faberge eggs for you – all ready to be mail out. But do you think I'm going to send them to you now? Hell no! You would just break them. Like you did your orblets.

It is now obvious why you choose to work with things like concrete and rock walls and grunge - you just can't take care of anything nice. I bet your concrete texture started out a shiny new wall until you got a hold of it - now just look at it.

A little more glassy looking.
I'm going to shelve it for now. Enough ff-ing around.

i like that last one, ron... reminds me of... something. lol, gotta love old age. i'll think of it in a few days, no doubt

Quote
Carl wrote: I wonder if you could get something into the 2 cut out sections

I will see what I can do. It has a 2 minute plus render time as it is so I will have to see how it works out.

Quote
StevieJ wrote: i like that last one

Quote
StevieJ wrote: I like the glass

Thanks Craig and Steve, this is definitely one I want to come back to. I think my other glass egg is about to go lu so this could serve as a replacement. I don’t need to tell you that there are lots of problems to be ironed out – especially along the edges but also with the shape.
I have this one and another called pitting that I would like to wrap up. I need to really focus on them so it will be a while before I get to it.
Thanks to all for the feedback.

Quote
Carl wrote: New default looks excellent

Thanks Carl, I tried living with the other one but I just couldn't - I never should have rushed it. I am hoping the new one will push it of the double HU barrier so I can get my lifetime upgrades.

Thanks Steve.

The Orb is back > what have you done

Quote
ronviers wrote: I don't want Vlad to get peeved at me.

I wouldn't think he would, he surely would prefer the best possible filters

Quote
StevieJ wrote: one of my favorite filters

Thanks.

Quote
StevieJ wrote: I've already conditioned FF for countless resubmits on the same filter.

But you have 170 filters to dilute the monotony. I bet his heart sinks each time he sees that stupid Orb texture hit the queue.

Quote
StevieJ wrote: B&W and Dreamscape filters being resubmitted everyday for a couple of months

LOL
Ok, I will try to get it in the queue for tonight.

and this

Ok, now I have messed up again. I forgot to add the size pixels fix to the latest update so I will have to submit another one. I will wait a while before submitting it so for now you can get the very latest update here.

The Orb.ffxml

Quote
Lady Fayre wrote: I like the light reflection and colours

Thanks LF!
Here are a couple more with the new look.

Here is a super high quality, aa set to 65 on all pixels, for comparison.