KG's ideabox

Here's a sample showing some of the border options and a corner toggle

This is another filter I made to simulate a shaft. It's actually quite different from my gunbarrel filter though they look similar. One shared feature is the scratches. Despite what you would expect the scratches aren't actual featured in the height map. It's not the ideal situation obviously but it looks quite nice using the little photoshop trick I ported over to filterforge. Feel free to open up the gunbarrel and take a look at how I did the scratches if it helps.

I even got to the point of doing alternative profiles and a rudimentary chaos option. I probably won't submit this as a snippet because I'm sure someone else could accomplish this better than I could.

I was bored in computer lab one time so I downloaded filterforge installed the demo and did up this number in about 10 minutes. It's not bad for such a quick effort, slow despite the small number of components mostly because of the highpass directly after the noise. (The ultimate speed killer) Check out my "boulderdash" filter if you want a real legit rock filter.

Trying to simulate dents in a crashed car. Ignore the obscene shine levels

The stuff used here eventually made their way into my "plastastic" filter.

Okay so now for some feedback from you guys

and some random thoughts!

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I wanted to do a carbon fiber filter but noticed that someone already made one that's pretty sweet. He's already gotten high usage out of it, do you think the filterforge world could use another attempt?

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carl's recent grunge frame filter has an AMAZING look about 3 steps down from the frame component. I might mimic that and do something that creates simulated paint drool/spatter from a painted line. (btw, the whole filter is amazing, I just really like that one part )

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I had the crazy idea earlier today to make a filterforge filter that took a texture with SEAMS and did it's best job to automatically fix the seams. Basically you could take an image of dirt or something and feed it into ff and come out with a texture that tiles.

Here's how one might do it in photoshop: http://www.cadtutor.net/dd/photo/seam...mless.html


The nice thing with doing it this way is that we can make use of filters like this:

http://www.filterforge.com/filters/226.html or this: http://www.filterforge.com/filters/4448.html

to transform filterforge into a seam removing wonder!

It's too late for me to start attempting this yet but I'll try and find a way to grab parts of the image and paste them over the seam (similar to the "clone tool" in photoshop) I really hope to get something working for this, it should be pretty amazing if done right (and with multiple methods of removing seams!)

some nice items there, KG, but this is actually ON topic. maybe a moderator could move this to the user gallery?

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KGtheway2B wrote: I had the crazy idea earlier today to make a filterforge filter that took a texture with SEAMS and did it's best job to automatically fix the seams. Basically you could take an image of dirt or something and feed it into ff and come out with a texture that tiles.

Don't know if you seen this one yet..It might be a start but maybe not....
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/5161.html

Into this:

ya know, CF, that gives me another idea. what if you had a scanner and could feed real world textures into the scanner such that it would scan and capture your image/texture into the computer and then, if you had a filter, FF or something else, that would read that texture/image and create an FF like filter of it? it would be sort of like those automatic paint sampling/creating machines where you run the color you want under a scanner and the machine mixes the proper colored paint. how slick would that be?

in other words, let's say i took a picture of some dirt. or, i had a way to simple scan a piece of dirt, and i took either of those and fed them into the computer. i'd run my program and the program would create a filter matching and simulating that patch of scanned dirt. you could program it for high random variables or very tight parameters. how much do you think Sign Guy and others might pay for such a beast?

actually, the simplest scanner would be a digital camera these days. no need for new hardware there. so, it would be the programming that would be the trick. i wonder if FF couldnt come close to this. if you ran a separation routine and.... hmmm... i'll get back to you

I've seen programs like that before That's where I got the idea for this filter. I just finished a fairly decent filter, I did it the way any new photoshop user would You can still see the fairly obvious blurred edges but it's not bad (though this example texture is pretty easy to do.

Here's a little tougher one

And now CFandM's wonder, I'll be honest, I didn't think it was going to work well with this, but it turned out amazing

lookin good, KG.

and if you find that link, do post it. i'd love to see it.

Thanks StevieJ!

Kraellin, I found that link: http://www.profxengine.com/

Pretty neat stuff, I'm going to contact them and see if we might be able to use the technology in my game. Can't hurt to ask .


Oh and also: DIBS ON ROMAN COLUMNS!

KG, thanks for the link. i had a look around there. loved the 'Bayou' demo!

good idea on the roman columns!

nice. always fun getting those HU's. but, this one doesnt surprise me. this is a very common texture for gaming, especially some of the games of late, like doom 3 and so on. grunge and industrial markers... makes sense

Working towards a gear filter and accidently made a bottlecap.

are you going to release it

LOL I'm old I forget things

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KGtheway2B wrote: be busy for the next two weeks (finals

what are you studying

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KGtheway2B wrote: any other ideas?

Sounds like a list for steampunk textures?

Yep, had a peek at your web site, and wow them images look really good. At first I thought I was looking at photo's of a warehouse! Then I thought hold on whats that blue glowing thing.. don't get many of them in real life warehouses. So I looked closer and realised it's computer image.

What gene of videogame are you making? Just I love RPG style/adventure. Not keen on doom type though.

Idea's to add to your list?

Man hole coverings
Asphalt with/with out lines
Drain pipes/guttering
broken/cracked concrete
Corrugated metal/plastic with/without rust/bird droppings etc


um.. mind has just emptied of all thought

If I think of anything else will add it

i like that. it's like a rusty metal cargo container look.