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Rock Fracture 01 by CorvusCroax
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/6422.html

Posted: September 22, 2008 1:35 am

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Vladimir Golovin
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Beautiful, but slow. Also, the default preset lacks contrast, here's how it could be improved:

Posted: September 22, 2008 1:43 am

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Vladimir Golovin
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(Here's the filter with the modified default preset.)

Rock Fracture 01 tPresete.ffxml

Posted: September 22, 2008 1:45 am

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CorvusCroax

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Ah, thanks. Shall I re-submit it with the preferred preset?

Posted: September 22, 2008 2:56 am

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Crapadilla

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Nice work and congrats on the EP, Croax! smile:)

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Posted: September 22, 2008 6:48 am

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Kraellin

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gratz!

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Posted: September 22, 2008 7:28 am

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Vladimir Golovin
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CorvusCroax wrote: Shall I re-submit it with the preferred preset?

Good idea.

Posted: September 22, 2008 8:18 am

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Crapadilla wrote: Nice work and congrats on the EP, Croax!

Thanks!

Oh, hey, got Editors Pick- Cool!

Posted: September 22, 2008 10:29 am

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CorvusCroax wrote: Oh, hey, got Editors Pick- Cool!

"And so it came to pass that Croax's addiction to FF deepened considerably..."

smile;)

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Posted: September 23, 2008 4:42 am

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"And so it came to pass that Croax's addiction to FF deepened considerably..."

so let it be written; so let it be done!

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Posted: September 23, 2008 7:19 am

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Crapadilla wrote: "And so it came to pass that Croax's addiction to FF deepened considerably..."

Heh... No kidding! I've been using FF more than I've been using Photoshop lately... which is really saying something for me. smile:loveff:

I've got a copper-pipe network generator filter going which kept me up to 1:30am last night ...

Posted: September 23, 2008 12:40 pm

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Kraellin

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only 1:30? wimp! smile:D

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Posted: September 23, 2008 1:23 pm

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Kraellin wrote: only 1:30? wimp!

Well, it was a school night.... (shrug) some of us have to work for a living!

So, Kraellin or 'Dilla, do you guys have any tips on how to improve the speed of this particular filter?

Posted: September 23, 2008 6:04 pm

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Haven't had the time to look into its guts yet, as I'm terribly busy at the moment... smile:|

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Posted: September 24, 2008 3:45 am

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Kraellin

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i havent look at the guts either. i'd suggest finding that tips thread on how to speed up filters. lots of good ideas in that.

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Posted: September 24, 2008 8:10 am

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Ok.. took a shot at optimizing this one.. its very close to the original (second edition), and the filter renders almost twice as fast now smile:)

Rock Fracture 01 - Sphinx Fix.ffxml

Zero Alpha = Zero Influence.

Posted: September 24, 2008 10:27 am

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Carl

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Great rock texture smile:)

........Carl

Posted: September 25, 2008 7:02 am

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CorvusCroax

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Sphinx. wrote: Ok.. took a shot at optimizing this one.. its very close to the original (second edition), and the filter renders almost twice as fast now

Ah, thanks sphinx. I'm definitely planning on revisiting this filter, so I'll incorporate your effciency improvements. I think using the threshold method detracts a bit from the rock texture, though... blends add that little bit of complexity.

Posted: September 30, 2008 2:33 pm

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Kraellin

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i've been playing around with the original today and got the time down to less than half the original. yes, the look has changed a bit, but still retains the main, overall effect. well, you be the judge.

Rock Fracture 01 by corvus croax rev 1a.ffxml

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Posted: October 21, 2008 10:50 pm

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and here's a sample:

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Posted: October 21, 2008 10:51 pm

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Jon Watte

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I think this filter is great!

However, I think that too much darkness is baked into the diffuse map. I'm a firm believer in baking every lighting effect into the bump map (and calculating ambient occlusion from that in the output rendering engine, if necessary).

I wonder if there could be a slider for how much of the darkening should be in the diffuse map, versus in the bump map?

Posted: October 11, 2009 10:49 pm

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