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I've never worked with AE.
But I can take a brief explanation for FF HDR

About HDR:
HDR (High Dynamic Range) in the context of FF is an ability of a component graph to
pass RGB values which exceed the range (0, 1).
This definition is an extension to a standard HDR definition "HDR color is a color which luminosity is out of device luminosity range".
In FF you can use even physically impossible negative or different-sigh colors (actually they are just a 3-coordinates vectors)

About LDR:
LDR - low dynamic range
Some components can't use RGB values exceeding (0, 1) due to their algorithms.
For example: Brightness/Contrast, Noise Gradient and other components which use HLS model (HLS model is natively LDR). The same situation is in blending modes: some are natively-LDR, some can be HDR-ed

About ranges and numeric details:
Range (0, 1) in FF corresponds to (0, 255) integer color range.
FF rendering pipeline uses 32 bit double-precision floating point numbers for calculations. Transformations of floating point colors to/from usual 8-bit RGB colors occur only on loading/saving images.

Very chaotic explanation, I know =)

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uberzev wrote: Can someone tell me succinctly what the advantage is of using the HDR bomber?

If you're making something with bright/hot/glowing particles, go with the HDR bomber.

If you're making something where you need negative colors, perhaps a custom noise generator, go with the HDR bomber.

Otherwise, use the regular bomber.

The advantage of the HDR Bomber is that it supports HDR colors. And it's disadvantage is that it has less blending modes available for particle blending and tinting -- not all of the blending modes can be converted to HDR.

Everyone, if you're going to ask technical questions, please post them as separate posts. Let's keep this thread on-topic.

Hmmm... bubble tea anybody? I'm nick-naming this filter "Bubble Tea." Even if it really isn't bubble tea.

whats a picnic without flys

Then the filter using Setjis Fast Spiral as the greyscale....Feel free to play and tweak it at will...

Following a Greyscale.ffxml

I can imagine lots of use for it!

The bomber is extremely useful! Back several months ago while attempting to make a similar filter, I ran into a ton of node/combination problems. I was getting lost in a forest of nodes and I was constantly wondering if there was a simpler way to do something.

I eventually realized that the bomber is a great solution for making pretty much anything complex happen. For example, the bomber was used to create the mountain ranges for this filter. Too bad the mountains are over-lapping right now, but it feels like I can easily fix this as well. Just a proof of concept. I'm probably going to remake this with the final version of FilterForge 2. In the mean time, here's what it can generate.

That lifesaver sure is getting old!

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Skybase wrote: I eventually realized that the bomber is a great solution for making pretty much anything complex happen. For example, the bomber was used to create the mountain ranges for this filter. Too bad the mountains are over-lapping right now, but it feels like I can easily fix this as well. Just a proof of concept. I'm probably going to remake this with the final version of FilterForge 2. In the mean time, here's what it can generate.

Well don't know if this will help but taking the long route might be possible...Don't know how you did the mountains but replace the image with one mountain in this filter.....You can even use the land mass as your greyscale so it only distributes the mountains within that area...

Following a Greyscale.ffxml

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CFandM wrote: Well don't know if this will help but taking the long route might be possible...Don't know how you did the mountains but replace the image with one mountain in this filter.....You can even use the land mass as your greyscale so it only distributes the mountains within that area... Smile

Thank you for the suggestion! Actually the bomber has been set up already so the mountain shapes get distributed via chance. I have a specific map which goes into the chance value and also the size. Which is how it makes the mountain range. Thanks again


Here's a result of playing around with the shapes. This solution takes less nodes and is bloody simple. Basically, I made two triangles, one black, the other white. The white one simply goes on top and covers the black one leaving behind the outlines which you see now. There are several problems including the sluggish render times, and over-lapping instances of mountains that look extremely awkward but otherwise I'm slowly getting there.

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Crapadilla wrote: I'd be very interested in seeing your fix to that over-lapping problem. Wink

Problem kinda solved? Just need to do beauty touches.

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CFandM wrote: Feel free to play and tweak it at will...

cool thanks CF

bombing funny clouds

that's an interesting one, sjeiti. cells and bombers together?

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Sjeiti wrote: bombing funny clouds

Nice touch, the clouds casting shadows on the sky!

toothpaste! gobs and gobs of toothpaste! lol.

that's very cool, dilla. i look forward to the lab. i consider your noise lab one of my favorites.

I really like , looks good!

Dunno if anyone found this yet: the correct height when using variable 'Size' can be found by inputting the inverse 'Size' into 'Tint amount' and setting 'Tint mode' to 'Darken' (with 'Size chaos' set to 0 of course).

...rubber bands anyone?

Screensaver ;]

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That lifesaver sure is getting old!

Yeah! Mine is almost completely dissolved... they need to recharge those 8640000 bits with some new values

(and no, that is not the fibers filter - its a *way* simpler version done with the bomber)

Nice ones, Sphinx!

That Bomber sure is gonna release a deluge of filters heretofore unseen upon us.

Here's a nice cartoon explosion, thanks Percentage!