Let's Talk About Bombers / Particles

Ok: so the scuttlebutt is that FF is going to include bombers in some capacity.
(Personally, I'm stoked to have bombers / particles in FF.) I was wondering if others had any thoughts on what they want to do with bombers / particles, based on other apps.

Every so often, I wind up trotting out the old KPT Scatter filter, just to place a bunch of stuff. It's fairly handy, and I haven't found anything else to really do this same thing.
Attached is a pic of the interface: you can see it's got controls for size and rotation of each particle. It treats everything much as a range, with a high and a low, so you control the randomness pretty effectively. (FF might be able to drive these with map inputs)

Here's the overall thing

So, nobody has any thoughts / comments on bombers?

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CorvusCroax wrote: I was wondering if others had any thoughts on what they want to do with bombers / particles, based on other apps.

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CorvusCroax wrote: So, nobody has any thoughts / comments on bombers?

Clicky!

Yep, it's an old thread, but unless Vlad spills some more beans on the bomber implementation, all we can do is wait and see, eh?

We've made quite a few with an offsetting filter in FF. It works pretty well if a bit slow. What takes the most getting used to and is the most time consuming aspect of it is image preparation and lighting direction. Rotation isn't desirable unless you have a way to overcome captured light directionality in the photo objects you're working with.

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Sign Guy wrote: Rotation isn't desirable unless you have a way to overcome captured light directionality in the photo objects you're working with.

Well, that's the exciting thing about FF with bombers: you can have the bombers not just as the color channel, but other channels as well. (height, refl, spec, specX, etc.)

(at least I hope that's the case... that you can have multiple-channel bombers...)

Clicky!

fred,

sorry, it's most likely me. bombers, to me, were always something one used to destroy an enemy. so, this is new subject material to me and more than likely it's me that's confused, not you

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Kraellin wrote: fred, sorry, it's most likely me. bombers, to me, were always something one used to destroy an enemy. so, this is new subject material to me and more than likely it's me that's confused, not you Smile

It's important to note that good quality silhouetted photo objects are the key starting point to good looking bombed seamless tiles.

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Crapadilla wrote: Clicky!

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Crapadilla wrote: Clicky! Yep, it's an old thread, but unless Vlad spills some more beans on the bomber

Sheesh, you guys have thought of everything!

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Kraellin wrote: i'll take your word on it. you guys will have to train me if FF comes out with this stuff

Vlad's description sounds a lot like a straingtforward particle system. I'm sure you'll be able to figure it out!

Even if you can't use fonts or EPS vectors directly, you can always convert them to PNG files with transparent backgrounds and then use them.