Stitched Up by Mongoose King

Well done\ It looks awesome and I'm sure will come in handy!

nice! and with FF2, no less.

Thank's for all the comments guys.

When I come back to this one, what I really wana do is add seams in the fabric alongside the stitching, different stitch patterns would be nice too. Overlocked hems would be good too.



I should say thanks to indigo ray for helping me fix some slowness in the first version of this about a year ago. yea, I be slow to release things :S

Cool stuff!

STOP! and have a look at yet another polygon example.

5 star point, hmm, not so sure about that.. with the polygon, it is distorted more at the corners the sharper they are.

I'm been pondering how to make a stitch follow a contour, and I'm not sure at all how to do it. I've considered using the van gogh flow script to do it with the bomber, but I'm not sure how to get it lined up. it could be possible to do a solid embroidered block like that, as there would then be lots of threads overlapping.

An alternate way would be drawing a line along an edge, then breaking it up into a dashed line. the breaking it up is the tricky part there.

Here's something I did with the bomber...

A lucky 4 leaf clover seeing as it's saint paddy's day.

A you can see.. The stiches face the right direction (except the stalk where I think the two lines being so close makes it mess up) but the positioning is a problem, getting the bomber to position exactly on the line is kind of tricky. It works fine if you happen to have lines that are only horizontal, vertical or at 45 degrees, but cos the bomber places in a grid, it doesn't like curves. The only way to fix it would be to have a script make a map for offsets in a similar way to the van gogh flow script makes a map for the rotation. I have no idea how to do that tho :S

this 4 point star has all it's sides horizontal vertical or 45 degrees so it comes out fine.

What image resolution are you working on Mardar?
Some presets of some filters take a very long time to start rendering. Even the little green bar at the bottom of the screen doesn't move, and then after a while everything comes back to life. When using large images the wainting time can be long.
I don't know what causes that exactly, but I'm guessing some extreme settings on noise components for example can take a long time to calculate, and only after the calculation is done the filter can start rendering.

I have just had a poke at it... as I recall it being faster in the first version, and I put the circle and polygon behind switches (they are controlled by switching opacity on blends at the moment, bad bad naughty filter construction!) which should speed things up a little when not using them.

Hmm, strange. It takes, for me, about 2 mins to render the first go, then about twice that for the AA.

What level AA do you have set?

Here's something weird though....

After putting the circle and polygon behind switches rather than blends, which is supposed to stop them being used at all when the switches are off, and also reducing details on a noise in the fabric part, and details and roughness on the noise distort that adds wonkyness to the threads, which should make them faster... I then tested rendering one of the presets against the version currently in the library, and it's about 30% slower!! I don't understand why at all!

I just clocked a test on the first preset as about 4mins 30 seconds for the first preset as a 512x512 with 5 sample AA.

that's with FF2, on windows XP, on a 2.0Ghz core2 duo laptop with 2gig ram.

I'm really not sure why it would go so slow for you, I would have thought that a faulty download would have just not worked at all, I am indeed confuzzled. I'm wondering if there might be some difference in FF3 that this disagrees with this filter.

Does anyone else out there trying this on FF3 have the same problem??

Tried the filter with default life saver picture, here are my results.

Default preset took around 20 seconds to start rendering the first block, Total time to render time was 2:49 with 5 AA.

Second preset takes less time to start the first block, and takes 1:25 total, with 5 AA.

Third preset (circle with square in it) took 20 seconds to start, then total of 2:22 with 5 AA.

I'm on Win7 64bit with standalone version of FF3, and I have to mention I have lots of stuff going on in the background, including 10 IE windows, 4 Chrome windows, uTorrent running at full steam, and all kinds of stuff the probably clogs the system.
I think the components used for the cloth take some time to compute, that's the 20 seconds lag before render starts.
Mardar, I don't know what do tell you, it seems like your computer needs a new sewing machine

the clover example uses the van gogh flow script and bomber with a stitch particle, and some thresholds to make a band along the edge of a shape and plop that into particle chance. I'm not sure where I put the filter tho :O reinstalled all my stuff, it's in some backup somewhere...