CorvusCroax's Junkyard

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#56 Again, sorry about the low-quality renderings... I got tired of waiting an half an hour for each one to render!

Experiment w/ using some rough geometry out of zbrush, and then applying some of the above displacement textures to it. Interesting how the same texture looks different on different geometry.

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These are idiotically cool. That first ZBrush mesh ship could easily be the lead ship in a game.

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Mike Blackney wrote: These are idiotically cool. That first ZBrush mesh ship could easily be the lead ship in a game.

Thanks! Yeah, that's probably where this is going ...
The amazing thing (to me) is how much apparent geometry one can get out of it. FF is a great tool for this kind of really complicated texturing (ie coordinating bump, spec, and diffuse). The Zbrush mesh is really simple: only about 200 polys. ALL the detail is coming from the displacement texture.

In the end, I'll probably wind up not using this technique, but rather load the displacement into zbrush and use them to actually offset a mesh which i then can just work with directly in zbrush.

Might also try some tests where I take a source mesh and actually deform it using one of my handy textures. Then, go back and put a displacement texture on top of that, for super extra plus bonus complicated detail.

Here's another test image. Sort of a hot rainy scene. Rendered in Vue6 infinite. The ships are just cylinders with rounded ends. I added a little bit of 'kitbash' engine parts for some details to some of them.

2 words: Damn Sexy!

Here's a quick attempt at making a kind of 1930's poster / paint effect. It works best with light images.

I wish there was a way to extract the dominant bright color from an image. Maybe like a way to make more selective the 'average color' component to particular parts, as defined by a mask. (you could use HSB extract to define the mask).

So, for example, in the image above, I'd like to pick out that big green-yellow really saturated color under the bridge arch, and then put it back as a color input. Does anyone know a way to do that? (maybe some clever trick with the max levels component that no-one seems to use?)

I remember seeing a filter where you can select a pixel from an image, but I can't find it again...ahhh here it is!

It's Mike's, not mine, of course, but this should be what you need. Just use the offset as your color input.

Pixel Color.ffxml

Bling02

Bling04

Bling06

Bling09

Bling12 - slightly different style

So, I wanted to make a 'bling-ification' filter which takes a simple graphic input and makes it into a king of wood and metal pattern, like an inlay or a gold embossed book cover. All the Bling examples above use a black and white input channel. I think it works pretty well... Previously I'd just been using really big fonts and things like that, but now i have it rigged up to to use more complicated inputs, and to come up w/ more varied outputs. I think it might be fun to make one that puts little jewels in the high points, or something.

CC, excellent work!!!

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CorvusCroax wrote: Do you all think that people would actually use this?

Yes, if you could create the fractal patterns of bling 1-7 in FF without inputting them.....which would be some complicated curve work.....but users would eat up the "ornamental" value in wood, cement, and metal.....

Bling09 is an excellent tile!!!

Here's the source for 11 and 12, which is from a texture pack by obsidian dawn.

Okay, I submitted it. Let me know what you think.

One lily, thoroughly gilded:
(original = http://akvis.com/img/examples/coloria...ily-bw.jpg )