Welcome to the Machine by Carl

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ronviers wrote: Yeah, Angel Balls! Look at my balls people! Look at my f-ing balls!!!

LMAO that is an excellant filter

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Carl wrote: "Dark Side of the Moon" is one of the all time classic albums

I do believe it is the biggest album in the history of the universe. 'Run Like Hell' is my favorite single though. Then again, I don't know, naming a fav is really really hard.

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ahimsa wrote: I thought once it went HU it stayed that way.

You retain the HU point but usage can drop back to average or as in this case low

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ahimsa wrote: Ron, your balls are great, don't know why more people aren't playing with them...

LOL

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ahimsa wrote: don't know why more people aren't playing with them.

LMAO but I won't be happy until everyone is playing with them.

Sorry Carl - didn't mean to turn this into yet another conversation about my balls.

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Carl wrote: Maybe we should combine them and make " Machine Balls"

LOL Or maybe, 'Welcome to My Balls'

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ahimsa wrote: Could be worse, someone could have brought up pink sliders..

They can both get a little sticky.

Now you guys have done it. You have me so distracted from Maya that I am going to have to do another filter.
I will see if I can post one tonight.

Neither could I and I actually made a filter today. I think some of the balls jammed up the machinery around here.

Yes. and now I've changed my mind about submitting it. It was not ready and I will come back to it - maybe next week. Actually the problems is that if I make it really nice then it's slow. So I will come back to it when I'm in the mood for debugging. I'm glad I didn't post it.

I have some that are really slow too, but when I tried to speed them up it took away from the quality. I removed them from the library since I seem to be the only one who liked those anyway. I don't mind if a filter is slow if it's a really good filter.

Angelboii's Floor Metal plate o2 takes [ I'm actually waiting to see how long and it's still going ][ mmmmmm still waiting ] 3 min 35 sec on a quad core and it an editor pick HU, it was a very early filter and I doubt Vlad would pick slow ones any more - HU in my opion are usually fast or at least not slow I'l have to have a check on my own I'm not sure of hand - you can create some beauties when you don't worry about time and you can only dumb down a version to submit or not submit which I've got a few like that one that I remember making took 17 min on my old single core - I'd say the majority of my HU are faster - thats definatly what Vlad wants - anyway I'll have a look and get back to you - what about you Ron and Ahimsa

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ahimsa wrote: all are fast ones

I think theory is correct

When it comes to complex textures time is always a problem

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Kraellin wrote: Kraellin Posts: 5748 Filters: 68 it's simple, really. just make everything out of perlins

The filter i didn't submit due to speed used only two perlins and a distort (which is another perling (i think)). I would post it but it might be uncool to post a filter in Carl's thread.

Sorry. I was hoping you knew a secret that would fix my filter.

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Kraellin wrote: just teasing carl a bit

LOL

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ronviers wrote: a secret that would fix my filter

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ahimsa wrote: lower details on the perlin

and roughness - but I dare say Ron knows these things but his got a mind blower for us - your welcome to post a sample pic in fact please do


O craig that's a sweet little pattern

Oh, and the pit can be huge or tiny, or even none. and three pit colors!
Plus I have it so the user can trade the HDRI surface reflects for metallic for seamless tiling. and since the pit can be removed, an entire wall, or large surface, could be created with only the occasional pit.
It had to be alien blood that could eat through high carbon/chrome/nickel steel like that. Btw, the suface color can be change - not just silver.

Thank Carl. My head's back into rigging now so it is on the shelf.
I just successfully rigged a hand to grip using mel. Now I know I'm not the man; but for a few minutes, after I moved the slider and saw the hand actually grip, I felt like the man.

20 minutes to render? Holy crap

I want to see your Maya stuff soon.

BGDD?

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ahimsa wrote: BGDD?

aren't you glad you asked

I had a feeling donkeys were involved, but I was thinking grey, not green.