SpaceGen by Richard Bartlett
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Vladimir Golovin
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SpaceGen by Richard Bartlett http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1388.html  |
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| Posted: October 29, 2006 8:50 am | ||
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Vladimir Golovin
Administrator |
Nice one! (the only thing I'd improve is to make the stars a bit brighter). | |
| Posted: October 29, 2006 8:50 am | ||
| Richard Bartlett |
Yes they are a bit dim. It also might help if I added some slight color variation (I'm thinking very pale reds, blues and perhaps greens).
It's funny. This filter is more the result of experimentation than having a clear goal in mind. I'll make some additions tonight and submit an update. Working with procedural textures is still pretty alien to me (no pun intended) but I'm getting better by the day. |
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| Posted: October 30, 2006 2:06 am | ||
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Vladimir Golovin
Administrator |
Just checked out the updated version -- nice work. I managed to make it somewhat quicker by reducing Roughness of the Perlin noise you used as an Elevation Map for colorizing the stars. You can set it to zero, it won't change anything but the render will be faster. | |
| Posted: October 30, 2006 10:38 am | ||
| voldemort |
I hope you dont mind I took your concept and have been working on my own variety by adding more sub layers as far as nebulas and variations in star sizes and intensity including ones with a twinkle Though to be quite frank as is typical my filter isnt the most user friendly since I want people to be able to fine tune it and its a way bigger memmory hog then yours lets all whine for a wine port |
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| Posted: November 4, 2006 1:07 am | ||
| Richard Bartlett |
No, that's quite alright. Have at it.  |
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| Posted: November 4, 2006 9:51 pm | ||
| voldemort |
I love the additions you made your color blends are way supperior to mine just my personal opinion and taste but some more star size variety might look really nice but again its not to knock your yours is by far more supperior
Great job  lets all whine for a wine port |
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| Posted: November 13, 2006 8:31 pm | ||
| Richard Bartlett |
I could add some more size variation but I don't think it would add much given the expense. The only means I can think of would be to duplicate strings of components, each time making slight adjustments to the controls and generally speaking, if I can't achieve an effect with a handful of components I tend to get the impression that I'm not taking the right approach.
That said, if an idea comes to me that would improve the filter with little overhead, I'll be sure to revisit this filter but for the moment I consider it complete. |
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| Posted: November 13, 2006 11:50 pm | ||
| voldemort |
Cool Like I said I wasnt trying to knock it yours is really sweet as is lets all whine for a wine port |
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| Posted: November 14, 2006 9:32 am | ||