just some odd images here and there

thanks, betis

Shallow river bed? Do like. Except the stones are still obvious, can you do some sort of perlin mix to make them less recognizable?

Yeah, see I was more talking about that last part, about them being rounded, and less recognizable as the actual noise component, but the clarity of the actual stone texture is perfect. Maybe smaller though.

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Betis wrote: Shallow river bed

yeah definitely

I love how you can get rid of some blurs now for speed and with the new shapes it's feasible to build any object

i'm putting these here, even though this is using some of the new components, because it's an older filter that never got finished and because i havent put anything here in a while

this started out as a painting filter, evolved sort of into a watercolor and then just got weird. it's now sort of a painter/watercolor/grunge/etcher and who knows what, but i like some of the results. this could easily be about 5 or 6 different filters if i was publishing, but so far it's just for play and has over 50 controls. it might need some trimming before i'd publish

and a third...

and a fifth...

and a seventh...

and a ninth...

and yes, those are all the same filter.

hi carl,

thanks

yes, the blurring was a result of trying to get a watercolor diffused/bleeding look. i still want to do a proper, runny, bleeding, smudgy, diffused watercolor and with the new components, especially median and percentile, i may be able to do it now. the blur and motion blur just wouldnt quite work right. so, this filter is sort of an experimental, hopefully leading to the original purpose of watercolor.

as a curiousity, did you guys where you live ever have the old Pratt watercolor paint sets? they came in a black, flat, elongated rectanglur tin that had about 8 little trays of which each tray had a different watercolor color. it came with one brush and you dipped the brush in water and then in whatever color tray you wanted to paint with and then painted. and, you normally painted on very coarse, porous paper, which ran/bled a lot. i havent seen one of those Pratt sets in years, but they were kind of fun

and i think i may have just stumbled onto a new way to do watercolor bleeding. check out the orange in this one. that's the only part that was affected. eeewwww...ideas! bye

thanks, carl

it's sort of bland right now, though i did work on it some more and got it a little better. i'll probably end up putting it on a back burner for now. i'm just kind of going through old filters from ver 1 and seeing if i can do anything with them using FF2. so, i'm not spending a lot of time with any one filter right now.

i didnt know anyone need a 'dose'. i'm currently out of town, but i shld be back after new years

thanks

Hmmmmmm.....what the H - E - double hockey sticks is going on in here???

ok, just a couple to show you what i've been up to. these are modeled after crapadilla's noise lab/workshop but with the addition of bombers. the amount of extra detail is noticeable and the ambient occlusion makes it even more so. these are still rough. i'm just experimenting, so dont expect anything too awfully spectacular.

that filter has way too many controls and is wide open. the drawback is that it's hard to predict. the plus is that it can produce an extreme variety of textures. so, it's good as an idea filter... it gives me ideas by just hitting 'next'

well, they're nothing spectacular, but i do like the variety i'm getting.

and yes, i do like controls... gives you more choices... choices gives you more creative freedom... which gives you more variety and we all know variety is the spice of life

fossils in stone... hmmm. ok, i can kinda see that.

what's nice about the bombers is that they give you more variety of detail and allow more gritty textures with a realistic look, as opposed to the simple perlin look which is getting somewhat recognizable. the new lighting helps too in that it enhances the gritty, detailed look even more. am looking forward to the next stage

bear claw marks... hadnt even thought of that one. but there is a certain regularity to those thin, lighter marks. interesting

lol. we definitely missed you, steve

ok, here's another from that same filter. i've added a little more color control. i must say, FF2 is just brilliant! vlad, if you're reading this, my hat's off to you guys. i'm making textures now i would have had a hard time making in FF1 and i'm doing it easily. just brilliant!

ok, this one shows something of what i mean in that last paragraph. the detail in this is just marvelous. if i saw this on a texture site i would be hard pressed to say whether it was a photo or done artificially, and to me, that's the true test of a texture producing program, does it rival photographic quality. with the new features, including the ambient occlusion, i can now say yes, it does rival photographic.

alright, here's another. this time it's some old, beat up, roughened, scratched, concrete with a bit of an algae stain. again, the detail and grit here are just fantastic. i'm starting to get the hang of this