just some odd images here and there

getting this noise how i want it has been driving me nuts. but, i think i'm getting it under control now...i think

I like the one with a bit of color in it and I think the original and this one are both fine as is. This last one I like the rocky area, but the snowy area seems to be floating off of the rock in some places.

Jan, the rocks you made will work perfect with Craig's filter here. I am looking forward to making a nature scene with this. I have all sorts of animals I can use in it and trees.

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ahimsa wrote: Jan, the rocks you made will work perfect with Craig's filter here. I am looking forward to making a nature scene with this. I have all sorts of animals I can use in it and trees.

Neat! Wish I could recreate that snowy texture over rock like the one I did with my Bryce. But I do really like these snowy fields of rocks (ground?) Craig made too. A little scrub brush and bolders would look real nice in these

Cam't wait to get my hands on this one.

here's an image with that blurry, fuzzy sort of look to the snow. i can make it more clear, but then i love the effect of the above image. i could make it two different filters, but it's really only one setting, one slider that is doing this and it seems a bit frivolous to make two complete filters for just one slider setting.

I don't care for the last one or the all white one, neither looks like snow to me. On this last pic it looks like thick dry paint and the ground/rock texture doesn't look good to me. Your original was my favorite. I liked the ground and the snow. It looked like a thin layer of the iced snow with some new snow sprinkled on it. Sorry.

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Don't trust her!!! She wants your filters all to herself

Where all filters at FF are concerned:

If it's pretty, I want it
If it's useful, I want it
If it's unique, I want it

If it's ugly, you can have it

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So now you're calling my filters ugly, eh???

No, I was talking about all filters here at FF...you get to have all the icky ones

Now I feel like my post was mean. It isn't meant to be.

ok, that was some interesting feedback. and dont worry, ahimsa, i didnt take it as mean. you like what you like and that's what i want to hear. i really didnt take it that you were running down the current posts. i want honest feedback and opinion, not a lot of fluff 'oh, that's nice, dear.' (well, unless it is nice, dear )

but paint? hehe, ok, if that's what you see. probably a lack of noise in that last one.

oh, and the mostly white one. yeah, that wasnt really meant to be snow. i just liked the chalky, white wall effect there and wanted to see how others liked it. so, maybe it would be better to do as a separate filter. that's easy enough to take out of the current version. i just re-map one control and it's gone.

the rough sea idea is an interesting one. hadnt even seen that till you said something, steve.

ok, i just went back over some of the other presets on the latest version. yup, it doesnt work on the snow. it's coming out metallic and too smooth or flat. oh well, back to the drawing board. a shame, too, because i'm getting some really interesting effects with it. for instance, if you ignore the pure whites in this attachment, i really like this.

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Craig... "yes indeed, these are all nice, dear"

hehe, not quite sure how to take that one

yup, diversity is one of our stengths and sometimes one of our weaknesses. but, ya gotta love that i see apples and you see oranges. which one reminds you of an ice flow breaking up?

yeah, i like the accent too, except right up in the top left where it looks more like ahimsa's paint. and in some other presets it's a lot worse.

and the diversity i'm going for here is ahimsa's. this is good practice for making custom textures, designed for one person's view. i'm glad others are also commenting, however. always good to have many views.

ok, one last one before i'm off to bed.

ok, i think i'm back on track now. i went WAAAAAY back in the versions and found two big mistakes. one, i had moved one component to a different node to test something and forgot to move it back and that carried through all the rest of the versions. and two, i found why i was having so much trouble controlling the noises. i had the noise controls plugged into both the rock and snow effects together and so couldnt control them separately.

so, this is looking much more like the original you liked, ahimsa and, i've added in an easy way to have more rock or more snow. so, let me know what ya think.

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Kraellin wrote: ok, i think i'm back on track now

This is really really nice, a snowy field of dirt and rocky outcroppings!
Wonder if you could ever expand something like this to encompass a wider variety of other eliminate, like dried twigs or grass clumps... frozen puddles, or trickling creeks, a frozen waterfall???

Hehe, don't mind me, Craig, my imagination is running away with what I see... which is a compliment to your work when that happens

i can always tell when i'm starting to get near to the finish with a filter... i start grinning! and i'm definitely starting to grin on this one

Sorry I'm so far behind here.

Craig, I like both of the ones with snow and rock. They are both perfect for a wildlife scene, maybe with mountain goats or even a bear.

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i had the noise controls plugged into both the rock and snow effects together and so couldnt control them separately.

Is this what caused that flat look on the top of the snow?

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This is the one I like the best of the two, but I do like them both very much.

But you can still get this scene, right? Because those mountain animals are getting real excited about all this snowy terrain.

Oh, this would go good in NWN wouldn't it?

ok, it's submitted! thanks, steve, ahimsa, jan and dilla (for the noise lab)!!

oh, and ahimsa, in answer to your question about NWN, i think so, but i havent tried to add any of my own textures to that yet. so, i'll have to let you know on that one.

just one other note on this, because there is no image component in this one, it's going to end up in the texture area. and that means seamless will be turned on, most likely. this may well screw up the existing presets as they look on the web pages. that's the one thing i forgot to do with the presets, make them all seamless so they'd look right on the web page displays.

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ahimsa wrote: If it's pretty, I want it If it's useful, I want it If it's unique, I want it

You've got all my filters then

just a couple odd ones here.

i havent done this in a while. just thought i'd post some stuff; nothing in particular... just stuff

this first is the original steve posted.

i dont know that i'd call these better than the original. the original is gorgeous. so, these are just... different.

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