Fast cast shadows

Here's how:

Blast Shadows.ffxml

Niiiccceee..

Wow, that´s totally cool and helpfull! Thx for sharing this

And here is the modified version of the filter for you to see for yourself those presets with your OWN images, as I have made them with the main image component, so you can load your own image and then try any of the 50 presets on your image to see how it looks like.

Blast Shadows Images 50 Presets.ffxml

Try and experiment with the settings and modify the presets to get even more possible effects

Should go and try it with other surface filters SpaceRay

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Skybase wrote: Should go and try it with other surface filters SpaceRay

Thanks, yes, I already know that the main reason for ThreeDee making this snippet is to help make shadows for surface filters as he has shown in the example well



But after looking at this and looking how it works I have discovered that this could be much more than a simple shadows snippet and that is why I made the above version.

I have remembered about this filter after I have seen an image that was similar to this

SpaceRay, one of these days you'll figure to use this on your snow filter.

I want to put some the presets example I have done in my own personal filter to show more what I have done with it and what could be done.

and then modifiying the setting can have much more different effects

You can make hard shadows, too.

Wow that it awesome. Have to try it right now.

NEW SHADOWS FILTER BASED ON NOISE COMPONENTS

Below I have uploaded a new filter based on noise components instead of only tiles

I have also made a new thread with ALL about shadows that can be seen in this thread

Simulating real shadows inside Filter Forge

ThreeDee have done in the first post an example with tiles



And the filter uploaded on the second post uses only tiles

Then ThreeDeee showed also this other example



And this is done with the Noise Blocks component, but this is not available with the original filter, and just replacing the tiles component does not work right as you would expect, so I have modified the original filter removing the tiles and have used all the Noise components so you can choose which want you want

Also have added some noise controls with controled settings made by remapping that it was why it did not work as expected

The presets are in the same order that the Noise type and have added two scales

NOISE TYPES ORDER

1 - Blocks
2 - Cells
3 - Chaffs
4 - Perlin Noise
5 - Pyramids
6 - Stones
7 -Techno

This list is also included inside the filter in the about tab

I have just seen that without knowing it I made this with FF 4.0, sorry

Blast Shadows Noise source.ffxml

Here is the new filter using Surface result to get much better and sharper results

Also there is additionally an important thing, and is that now you can also use the Lighting tab, and if you want, also can use the Ambient Occlusion (AO)

I have not used any AO and default Lighting settings in the presets, just try and experiment yourself modifying them

Blast Shadows Noise source Surface.ffxml

After so much time I really like much this filter that may give unique and unusual ways to add shadows in tiles or with any other shape or way that you may want as this is not at all exclusive to be used with tiles only, just replace the tiles with what you want

I really miss very much when there was many things like in the FF forum that would bring cool, useful and interesting special things.

I miss much people that are in this thread like ThreeDee, Skybase, Sharandra, Morgantao and and many other users that are not anymore in the forum

I also like much things made by Indigo Ray but he was seen in January 2022