Ferninator by BenBeckwith
Crapadilla
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Ferninator by BenBeckwith http://www.filterforge.com/filters/3220.html  --- Crapadilla says: "Damn you, stupid Mac version!" |
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| Posted: June 20, 2007 7:48 am | ||||||
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Crapadilla
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Looks interesting. We definitely need more of these plant generators...  --- Crapadilla says: "Damn you, stupid Mac version!" |
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| Posted: June 20, 2007 7:49 am | ||||||
| BenBeckwith |
I have another coming for hanging ivy, it's turned out very well so far. Thanks for trying it out.  |
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| Posted: June 20, 2007 8:02 am | ||||||
| Kraellin |
absolutely brilliant! and i agree with dilla, more of this type would be great.
just one caveat to the filter; the presets show the background as transparent but the rendering actually puts the life preserver into the background. there is a way around this without much tinkering, but i forget what it is at the moment. you can do it with a transparent background image, but seems there was another solution somehwere here on the site... i think it had to do with adding an image component. the site's running slowly right now and i'm having troulbe finding the post where this was mentioned. filters, filters, filters... NO FILTERS FOR YOU!!!
Craig |
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| Posted: June 20, 2007 10:39 am | ||||||
| BenBeckwith | I see, so this is in stand alone FF, i hadn't even tried stand alone before. It shall be fixed. | |||||
| Posted: June 20, 2007 11:44 am | ||||||
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Crapadilla
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I don't think there is anything to fix.
In standalone, the default image ALWAYS is the lifesaver, and consequently that is what the leaf get composited over. 
[Craig was just too lazy to change it...   ]
Furthermore, if you added an image component, the filter would automatically become an effect filter, which it obviously isn't. --- Crapadilla says: "Damn you, stupid Mac version!" |
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| Posted: June 20, 2007 11:49 am | ||||||
| Kraellin |
dilla, there was a recent thread about this. someone else had the same thing going on and there was a change you could make so it would always show the transparencies instead of the life preserver. i'm still trying to find it  filters, filters, filters... NO FILTERS FOR YOU!!!
Craig |
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| Posted: June 20, 2007 11:55 am | ||||||
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Crapadilla
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Yup, I remember shaking my head over that thread, but I can't seem to find it either... --- Crapadilla says: "Damn you, stupid Mac version!" |
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| Posted: June 20, 2007 11:59 am | ||||||
| Kraellin |
well, this isnt the one i was looking for, but it refers to this also: http://www.filterforge.com/forum/read.php?FID=8&TID=684&MID= filters, filters, filters... NO FILTERS FOR YOU!!!
Craig |
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| Posted: June 20, 2007 12:06 pm | ||||||
| Kraellin |
and here's another, but i dont think this was the one i was looking for either http://www.filterforge.com/forum/read.php?FID=8&TID=330&MID= filters, filters, filters... NO FILTERS FOR YOU!!!
Craig |
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| Posted: June 20, 2007 12:14 pm | ||||||
Redcap
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Ohhhhh I sense that Crapadillas challenge to make a feather texture is getting closer and closer. Good work! Do a good turn daily.
-Scout Motto |
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| Posted: June 20, 2007 1:13 pm | ||||||
| voldemort |
Wow this one really does rock lets all whine for a wine port |
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| Posted: June 20, 2007 1:56 pm | ||||||
StevieJ
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Excellent!!! I can't believe this is your first filter Steve
“Buzzards gotta eat.....same as worms....." - Clint :) |
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| Posted: June 20, 2007 9:08 pm | ||||||
| BenBeckwith |
Thank you!
I've made some before this, i just never added parameters to submit. I guess I'll just leave this one the way it is (with the lifesaver) for now. FF is pretty much the best program ever |
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| Posted: June 20, 2007 11:47 pm | ||||||
PogS
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Nice one ! Too bad this kind of things is really hard to make with FF (I looked at the filter structure : this is mad) for a result that is not fully realistic. FF is not done to do such textures. That is technically interesting but not really usable |
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| Posted: June 21, 2007 1:09 am | ||||||
| BenBeckwith | Yeah, though if i wanted to go for ultra realism i think i could have made it more so. I don't think the filter structure is too bad as far as complexity goes (yeah it's a mess). Im sure it could be optimized. Probably looks very unfriendly to others, even i have to figure out wtf i did if i havent worked on a filter like this in a while. But if that's what it takes... hehe. (I've got worse) | |||||
| Posted: June 21, 2007 1:00 pm | ||||||
| Kraellin |
actually, it's VERY useable. this is exactly the sort of thing game artists love! filters, filters, filters... NO FILTERS FOR YOU!!!
Craig |
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| Posted: June 21, 2007 1:30 pm | ||||||
| Kraellin |
oh, and check out my new barber pole filter. one of the things i purposely did with that one was to put in showing how to remove the background image when you want the background to come up transparent. it's quite simple and shldnt hurt your filter. filters, filters, filters... NO FILTERS FOR YOU!!!
Craig |
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| Posted: June 21, 2007 1:42 pm | ||||||
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Redcap
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I understand that what you probablly meant to say was this filter wasn't very useful for you, and that is fine; however, for me: extremley useful.
I think it looks sweet! Look at a small version of a tree and it looks like a feather or a leaf from a real tree. I am not saying that it is perfect, we can always improve on our filters, but I think this is a sweet filter. It is new, inventive, creative, useful, pretty, and very unique. Do a good turn daily.
-Scout Motto |
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| Posted: June 22, 2007 4:38 pm | ||||||
Carl
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Yeh great first [ submitted ] filter looking forward to seeing your future filters I'm going to live forever or die trying ........Carl |
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| Posted: June 23, 2007 3:05 am | ||||||
| voldemort |
You know I had toyed with a couple of ideas on how to do something like this and my hats off to your I finally took a look at its guts -- the way you used that offset for the feathering was bloody brilliant. Sheer genious my hats of to you again and again and again lets all whine for a wine port |
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| Posted: June 23, 2007 12:11 pm | ||||||
CFandM
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Great filter BenBeckwith..Welcome to the fun also..
Just a quick observation. If you flip it horizonal might be able to make some eyelashes out of it.. |
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| Posted: June 24, 2007 12:49 am | ||||||
| Kraellin |
ben, i'm tempted to ask you to explore this area more. whole trees would be excellent, for example. see, when i first saw this i saw a pine leaf, not a feather. or, at least something in that genre. filters, filters, filters... NO FILTERS FOR YOU!!!
Craig |
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| Posted: June 24, 2007 1:52 am | ||||||
Torley
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A lot of praise has already been said for this... needless to say... I'm just gonna download it and enjoy! Should make some plantgenning a lot easier.
Also very kewl to hear the creative suggestions that are coming out here. I'm enjoying using Filter Forge to create http://torley.com/textures |
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| Posted: June 25, 2007 8:05 pm | ||||||