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Vladimir Golovin
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100 year old Tugboat by Bongo51
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Posted: June 19, 2006 2:24 am

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Vladimir Golovin
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Bongo -- excellent work! I'd recommend to rename it to "Rusty Painted Metal" or "Rust", and to make the water stains sharper or more contrast. Also, some of the presets aren't rusty enough, probably due to their synthetic colors -- I'd advice to choose more natural colors for them.

Other than that, fantastic work!

Posted: June 19, 2006 2:27 am

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Vladimir Golovin
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Bad news -- it is very slow.

I noticed that you used Blur to smooth Perlin Noise. I'd recommend using the Details parameter instead -- it softens the noise and gives it a speed increase as a side effect, while any Blur slows things down dramatically.

Posted: June 19, 2006 2:40 am

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Vladimir Golovin
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Also, instead of producing water stains with Perlin/Motion Blur combo, you can use the Stretch, Angle and Details parameters of the Perlin Noise -- this would be a lot faster.

As a general rule, avoid using Blur, Motion Blur and High Pass unless this is absolutely necessary.

Posted: June 19, 2006 2:45 am

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Vladimir Golovin
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Another advice -- try to keep Roughness and Details of all Worley-based noises (Chaffs, Cells, etc) to a minimum, and avoid using them together with Blur, MotionBlur, High Pass and Sharpen.

Posted: June 19, 2006 2:51 am

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IONclad

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Thanks Vladimir,

every texture I build I learn new things. When I've exhausted all the surfaces I wish to create I'm going to go through and 'fix' all my newbie mistakes.

smile:)

ie. tugboat v2

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Posted: June 19, 2006 3:06 pm

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Lucato

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Hey Bongo, What a job! Huge structure. The connections seems a spider's web. smile:)

Bongo, the variation 4 (site) and the same applied on an image (default) is amazing! Congratulations.

Posted: June 19, 2006 4:15 pm

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IONclad

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thanks lucato!

I am looking forward to seeing if this texture can 'pull it off' when used with the bump and specular in Lightwave.

Also, sorry... I'm working on building my textures in a more 'programmer-like' manner. I'm an artist at heart, so everything is build quite organically, then I try to organize things after the fact. sometimes I toss everything out several times before getting it simple enough to not take weeks to render.

The 10 control limit REALLY puts a damper on the complexity I'd LIKE to make. Vladimir? Are there plans on increasing this number? One way I thought of 'faking' this would be to build multistage textures, if one texture could pass it's results to another one I could build several interdependent textures that functioned as a whole. For example a brick texture broken down into brick texture, colour and erosion... or whatever. I'm assuming that whatever the limitation warranting 10 channels over say... 50 wouldn't be defeated by connecting several textures together... this is more of a bitmap kind of expectation.

Ian

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Posted: June 19, 2006 10:21 pm

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Lucato

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Bongo51 wrote: The 10 control limit REALLY puts a damper on the complexity I'd LIKE to make. Vladimir? Are there plans on increasing this number?

Hey bongo, I agree. If FF team don't increase the limit, I though also another way they would implement to save some controls when using switch, check here.

Posted: June 20, 2006 5:41 am

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IONclad

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Lucato,

I use switches often now. But this was one of my first filters, and at this point I think I'll rebuild it from scratch...

the artist formerly known as Bongo51

Posted: July 11, 2006 12:51 pm

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