Beta 2 Gallery

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Betis wrote: Does that use bombers? How long did it take to render? Smile

Forever. Yes it took forever only because its a large image to beign with. But more over, I was concerned about the fact that I married two filters toghether to form super great giant. Either way, I attached a screenshot showing off what's happening. I added some documentation so you're not just looking at tiny little nodes that look like nothing from a distance.

I'll scrub it up.

Although, come to think of it, I think if I export the image of the bombed picture first, then pass it through Photoygraphy 1.8 would be way faster than doing this huge node thing.

Awesome, that is definitely quite a hulking beast you have going on there.

Wow, Skybase! The watercolor part of the filter is pretty sweet, and the whole thing together is really unique. You're definitely heading the "art" part of filter forge.

OK, I took FF2 to new height last night, and I mean it. This is by far the most complicated and versatile filter I've ever made so far. First, the ordinary medieval tavern table, with benches and cups to go, just add some drunken patrons.

And third, a screenshot of this monster filter
Thx to uberzevs rotate any direction, as I couldn't "bomb" the benches and keep them at a fair size.

@Skybase, the wood is controllable, I think my AO settings made it a little too dark, but didnt wanna wait another 20+mins for to render again, this 400x400 image

You like this better?

I think the dark ones are empty, and the yellow ones are mead... but I'm not sure what the red one is.

Looks cool Totte..But geez now you have me thinking about another filter to create..The game Mastermind with all the little color pegs..

Hey Skybase,
That filter is VERY COOL! We will all be looking forward to that one!

Totte,
Looks like you are on the right track. Very good looking filter!

Both of these filters look like a quick HU to me!

Have a GREAT day!

Ron

Hi,
after long time, FF really caught my atention again.. before i was using it for ocasional noise for some base texture, but now with AO.. man, the textures really pop!! and bomber.. pure awesomeness!
Here are couple of quick textures i trew together to test in game engine..
Im using FF to generate only normal and AO maps, in using those two to do diffuse in photoshop from photo textures.. takes me too long to do it all in FF, but takes less to do depth in FF then to model them in maya and then zbrush..

anyway.. really quick tests:
[img]http://tinypic.com/r/osa4c6/5[/img]

[img]http://tinypic.com/r/2l8ax4/5[/img]

Spatial distortion extracted from minimum and maximum and reused to generate radial bumpmap and absolute remapping of smoothened source image..

Max. version:

Pretty scary surrealism in this version of poor Johnny Depp (original here):

angelboiii, those textures are wonderful! I wish there was a little more color, but I guess it's fine

Wonderful stuff.

I say keep the real one, and also keep a fake AO one, just for testing controls to use on the long-render time.

Cool stuff guys!

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Skybase wrote: Oh yeah, here's a super NOT fast grass texture for a game I'm developing along with a team. 1024X1024, Bump + ambient occlusion = 19 mins of rendering. Seriously?! Well okay, the results are wonderful and AO maps are very handy, but I feel like I can simply fake AO with a bit of cleaver use of highpass filtering. Of course, it's NOT the same thing, but I feel like it took too long to render something simple as this.

Rendering times with the beta are quite long.
I've noticed that it rarely uses 100% CPU which may mean they need to do some more tweaking... it is a beta afterall
I'm hoping that when v2 is final we'll se some faster rendering.

Here's a task manager shot during a render @ 3072x3072...

Rendering with AO on the CPU barely gets used at the beginning of the render.
Larger size images or really complex filters can a long time before the first square even shows up.

Good morning Everyone!

Hey Sphinx,Skybase & meyendlesss, Very cool Filters!! I like those.

Have a GREAT day!

Ron

i'm hoping 'UDK' means unreal developer's kit and not united dentists of kenya

those are sweet, angelboiii. good to see you here again

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Great work, angelboiii! Please submit it to the Gallery.

Hey angelboiii,

GREAT to see you back! I love your work! We will all be looking forward to you doing more of your magic with 2.0!

Have a good evening!

Ron

Thanks all!
I wasn't really gone I was always lurking around, just didn't have the time to use FF or post any comments.. Don't know if i'll be submiting any filters though, i'll be mostly using FF for personal project im working on..
Looking trough 2.0 though, im sure something usefull will come for the comunity aswell.. it's awesome! (wished for few features that are still missing, but..)

KGtheway2B: I use your Base Metal all the time!

That is a cool texture angelboii.
Makes me want to get UDK reinstalled.
I had a bit of fun with it, but didn't have a project to work on, and didn't have the motivation to start my own. I've been wanting to though.

I've been using Daz Studio 3 for testing my textures lately... it's free, and the lighting is nice. I'm also doing some textures for someone for use in that particular program.

Here's a quick test of a new rock texture I'm working on for no real reason...
Started this filter in v1, and moved it to v2 for the AO map.
Diffuse, bump, and AO maps done in FF... slight blending job done in PSP.
Custom lighting setup in Daz Studio 3...