Fast cast shadows
ThreeDee
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This should prove useful for a number of applications: fast cast shadows.
Here is an example:  |
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| Posted: July 23, 2012 10:21 am | ||||||
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ThreeDee
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Here's how: Blast Shadows.ffxml |
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| Posted: July 23, 2012 10:26 am | ||||||
Skybase
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I love you. | |||||
| Posted: July 23, 2012 10:57 am | ||||||
CFandM
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Niiiccceee..   Stupid things happen to computers for stupid reasons at stupid times! |
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| Posted: July 23, 2012 11:13 am | ||||||
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ThreeDee
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Here's how a surface filter can be enhanced with addition of shadows. Left side plain, right side with shadows: |
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| Posted: July 23, 2012 12:03 pm | ||||||
Sharandra
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Wow, that´s totally cool and helpfull! Thx for sharing this  |
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| Posted: July 23, 2012 12:22 pm | ||||||
SpaceRay
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YES, I love you too ThreeDee for making this great and excellent shadow filter and that is very useful and more than you could think as I have changed your filter a little and have discovered that it has a much greater potential and much more useful and amazing than I could have thought looking at the example of the first post.
I agree totally this is totally cool, helpful, awesome and well done and get a excellent effect and I thanks you very much for sharing this As said I have changed a little your filter adding some more controls that change the usefulness and effects much and now you can do much more things with it IN FACT I HAVE DONE 50 PRESETS to show the new many possible ways this could be used. See here below the list of the 50 PRESETS  |
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| Posted: July 23, 2012 4:16 pm | ||||||
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SpaceRay
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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 |
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| Posted: July 23, 2012 4:22 pm | ||||||
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SpaceRay
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Here is an enlarged version of the 50 Presets I have made to see them better than the above one |
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| Posted: July 23, 2012 4:26 pm | ||||||
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SpaceRay
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Try and experiment with the settings and modify the presets to get even more possible effects |
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| Posted: July 23, 2012 5:11 pm | ||||||
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SpaceRay
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| Posted: July 23, 2012 5:15 pm | ||||||
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Skybase
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Should go and try it with other surface filters SpaceRay  |
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| Posted: July 23, 2012 10:49 pm | ||||||
Morgantao
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Looks awesome ThreeDee!
Why don't you add this to the library as a snippet?  |
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| Posted: July 24, 2012 4:18 pm | ||||||
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SpaceRay
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  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. |
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| Posted: July 28, 2012 11:30 pm | ||||||
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SpaceRay
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I really LOVE MUCH this filter in my own and special way as I use it for making tiled images with boxed shadows.
This is really beautiful to make this kind of squared collages I have used the uploaded above filter with a slighty modification added to make this What is amazing and great is that ALL this comes from a very simple and plain texture, all the color shades and shadows are added by the filter  |
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| Posted: September 9, 2012 4:31 am | ||||||
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SpaceRay
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I have remembered about this filter after I have seen an image that was similar to this |
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| Posted: September 9, 2012 4:35 am | ||||||
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SpaceRay
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Here is the new updated and better filter version of this awesome Blast Shadows technique made by ThreeDee that I love much
Now you can control the tiles amount and have as few or as many as you want with the Tile Amount Also have renamed some of the settings and have made a better order of them and cleaner (at least from my point of view) Also I have added the option to choose the image source, unchecked means that it will take the main image source loaded AND it will also take the main image resolution. If you activate and check the image source then it will change to the color control image source below that you load AND the main difference is that you will be able to put YOUR OWN FINAL RESOLUTION without having to use the image source resolution, so this way you can make the size much bigger than the image and design the square collage as you want. Blast Shadows with Images 51 Presets better.ffxml |
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| Posted: September 9, 2012 4:53 am | ||||||
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Skybase
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SpaceRay, one of these days you'll figure to use this on your snow filter. |
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| Posted: September 9, 2012 6:23 am | ||||||
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SpaceRay
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I already know that this filter is mainly for giving shadows to simulate and give the illusion of 3D and make more realistic shadows. I have ALREADY tried to use this Blast Shadows filter with my own Heavy Snow filter before releasing it to the FF Library to see if this could give better shadows than the Hard Shadows filter or could be used better, BUT as you have said right, I could not figure out how to use it right to give a good effect and I had a bad result, so I kept the Hard Shadows better. |
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| Posted: September 9, 2012 4:23 pm | ||||||
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SpaceRay
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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. |
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| Posted: September 10, 2012 3:18 am | ||||||
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SpaceRay
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I like much how from a plain wall like the one from the FF window image you can get this tiled holes boxes and the nice shadows effect |
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| Posted: September 10, 2012 3:20 am | ||||||
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SpaceRay
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and then modifiying the setting can have much more different effects |
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| Posted: September 10, 2012 3:21 am | ||||||
Indigo Ray
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I like this, ThreeDee.  "Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana." -Groucho Marx |
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| Posted: September 18, 2012 9:26 pm | ||||||
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Indigo Ray
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You can make hard shadows, too. "Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana." -Groucho Marx |
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| Posted: September 18, 2012 10:07 pm | ||||||
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SpaceRay
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Have made another different test with this great shadows filter, mixing two different images with stripes and applying this fast cast shadows filter and got this nice result
For this test you ONLY have to replace the two tiles components of the original filter above and put the source you want from any group of components  |
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| Posted: March 7, 2013 5:43 am | ||||||
| Burt | Wow that it awesome. Have to try it right now. | |||||
| Posted: March 7, 2013 8:41 am | ||||||
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SpaceRay
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Glad you like it and may be useful for you, Burt and if you want you could share any example that you could make
This filters can have some good uses |
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| Posted: March 12, 2013 4:27 pm | ||||||
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