Looking for a Filter

I bought FF pretty much for use in Second Life, at the moment I can only afford the basic version so I cannot make my own filters, just use the ones here. So does anyone know of a filter that I can use to overlay slightly textured objects with a gloss/shine like smooth latex or vinyl -- The type used for clothing specifically?

Thanks in advance!

I don't suppose you know how they do it in Second Life then? I realize its a bit off of discussions regarding Filter Forge, but I'm sort of desperate to figure out how to simulate that kind of material.

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Scibat wrote: So does anyone know of a filter that I can use to overlay slightly textured objects with a gloss/shine like smooth latex or vinyl -- The type used for clothing specifically?

let me see if i understand this; you want to make another texture in second life shiny/glossy by adding a filter render from FF to it, such that the final result would look like snooth latex or vinyl?

if i've got that right, one would almost have to know what the original texture is that you're overlaying and its various properties, i would think. i dont know of any filter that just adds a glossy sheen to any given other texture. and i'm not sure you could make one that would 100% of the time work correctly that way.

all that being said, and if i'm understanding what you want, how would you apply this thing? i've never been on second life and only seen a few screenshots so i dont know how you manipulate textures within that program. it's quite possible to make a filter that gives a glossy sheen to at least some textures. you could almost take some of the 'glass' filters and do it, especially if they are surface types using hdri environments within FF.

it's an interesting idea. perhaps you can post some examples you want overlaid with this filter and we could test some things on them.

Give us a screenshot of what your trying to accomplish, Ive never done SecondLife and therefore am clueless to what your looking for. It might help others on here that are great at this kind of thing understand what your after.

You would have little success making an alpha style texture that would add shiny highlights to everything. However you could just select which textures you want to use and run them through a metalizer. That would of course be a modified textures instead of an overlay.

A highlights filter is pretty easy to make, but a generalized highlighting texture is just not workable. Because the illusion of shiny is based on where the highlights are placed in relation to the rest of the image.

I made some plastic gradient textures a long while back trying to do something similar with the black vinyl idea. The highlighted portions just get applied randomly and while it sort of suggests shiny it is in the wrong places and just looks weird. To get the baked texture effect to work properly the texture needs to be designed specifically for the object or item of clothing.