Droplets by Skybase

Droplets by Skybase
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/10802.html

And is good that you can use black as a mask and is good to have this, although I wonder if there could be possibly an option to have black mercury drops if you want?

This is the same as abopve using preset 6 as it is. Really awesome colourful mercury pearls and drops

This is using seamless tiling

With Preset 2 and reducing the "size pixels" setting to 120 instead of 3000 you get a droplets fine spray that is very detailed following the source

Presets 7 looks also cool, is like some organical ice or soft fruits covered in soft ice and water melting

a close up detail of the above here showing the really beautiful mercury droplets so well done and very elegant

Here is close up detail of the above one here to show how really awesome and amazing quality this filter is able to make

This one and the above (is the same) is on preset 6

And here is close up of the above to see the amazing quality of golden melted drops

Color Wheel with preset 6 and size pixels slightly reduced

Color Wheel with preset 1 showing beautiful and really great and well done corlorful mercury pattern that are really very well joined toghether and looks like metaballs.

This filter deserves to have an EP for it´s high quality and very well done and carefull processing and conversion of the source image

White Tiger head with preset 6, can you see the tiger ?

and here you can see the same as above in closer detail to see the excellent and awesome quality this filter can give and so well done lighting and colors and shadings that looks so beautiful and elegant

Really love what this filter can do and that makes the mercury SO WELL DONE

And here is the real size of the one above that shown the great and beautiful quality and lovely mercury drops

This kind of awesome filter is what really makes Filter Forge worthy and I can override many of the bad things of FF, specially the speed, and look more at GREAT AND EXCELLENT things that can be done when someone makes filters with such quality and excellence like this one

and even more closer to see how awesome quality and great lighting and shadings you can get with this filter

Also by filling the surroundings where you do not want to have drops, you can mask it with black and then isolate the thing you want to have.

And even closer to see the excellence of this filter even better

more closer of the one above here to the see better the great effect

And another one

And here is the one above here in more closer detail

The diffuse channel is essentially the color of any surface filter. The general purpose (as described) is basically so you can export color data without the height or reflection data for usage in other programs like Maya. But because we're also not taking into account the lighting for the diffuse map, we're basically bypassing that which gives us a nice way to preview stuff before hand.

You can access the diffuse data fr om the following menu: filter > render maps > diffuse map.

Boring Mode bypasses 2 key nodes: the blur and median blend which basically connects the the droplets together. It visually won't look as different when the droplet sizes are small, wh ere blending is turned down. But you can see the effect of it when you max out the param "Blending Radius" since the check box basically bypasses that. The screenshot below displays the diffuse channel so you can easily see what's happening.

And it's boring because there's nothing cool happening Just the bomber doing stuff the bomber does all the time.

The FF lifesaver in mercury droplets

Thanks for the tip of using the diffuse map to see how the dots will be placed before the full render as this is faster to see a preview as the result is unexpected and do not sure if it will be what you want, so is very good that you can see it this way too until you see it right.

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Here is another example that I wanted to make like a fountain of mercury and is very good to be able to mask the surroundings painting all black and then preview how will it look with the difusse map so the dots are not too big, too separate, or too small, and are also some near enough to be joined like metaballs when render.

Really like much the result and love how the drops are shaded and the color applied so well

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always check the help docs too!

YES, Sorry, is true that I should have searched there, and is curious that I have never seen this render maps menu until now , as I have never used it as I did not need it until now