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GumBall Machine by Morgantao
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Posted: January 23, 2012 4:46 am

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you finally made it as you said smile:D

This looks very good and very realistic and very good that you can have large gumballs or lots of small gumballs smile:)

This are just plain colored balls, but surely they can be made with textures, and could be also used for other things, like for example lottery balls! smile:)

This could be used also as a lottery balls machine smile:D

as you can here in this google search

PACHINKO MACHINE BALLS

Now, I do not why, this gumball and lottery machines, have made me think also in the Japanish Pachinko machine Balls smile:D

Although these are fully chrome metallic and not colored like the ones above.

Here is more information about this

Posted: January 23, 2012 4:58 am

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I don't think this filter can be adapted for a lottery machine... If you want different numbers on each ball (and preferably a random location on the ball), you can't use the Bomber methode I used. If you do, you will have just 5 numbers repeating themselves.

About the Pchinko, I guess you can just add a metalic looking gradient to them, like you did with the ball pit filter.

Posted: January 23, 2012 8:56 am

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Morgantao wrote: I don't think this filter can be adapted for a lottery machine... If you want different numbers on each ball (and preferably a random location on the ball), you can't use the Bomber methode I used. If you do, you will have just 5 numbers repeating themselves.

Oh yes, you are right you CANÂ´T have the 49 numbers of the lottery balls, because Bomber ONLY allows 5 inputs !! So it is true that you would not be able to remap the 49 number textures. And would be really difficult and complex to use 9 different bombers configurations (if it would be really possible), one for each of 5 different numbers.

Sorry, my fault, that I did not think on the 5 input limitation, and that is why also the balls have only 5 colors. Forget about the lottery balls. Bad suggestion.

METALLIC BALLS

Yes, I have just seen that is possible to change the result with reflectivity and reflectivity blur

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Reflectivity: Map Input Defines how reflective the surface is. Lower Reflectivity values are useful for imitating rough surfaces, such as natural stone, sand or concrete, while for a polished surface like glass, plastic or metal it's better to choose a higher value.

Here is the Help reference in the FF guide

Posted: January 23, 2012 11:30 am

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I like your GumBall machine. Well done smile:)

visit https://gisoft.ca

Posted: January 23, 2012 12:15 pm

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I have tried in higher resolution and the glass effect of the gumball container is very realistic and well done, it really looks like a real one, and the balls are very well adapted to the inside of the machine.

I have seen REAL gumball machines in google, and this "fake" one could not have any envy of the real ones as it is very similar as you can see here in this google images search

I do not why, but this also remembers me of something I have seen in the supermarket smile:D

I know it has nothing to do with the gumballs, but the enclosed crystal remembers me to the olives. smile:D

BALLS WITH IMAGES INSTEAD OF COLORS

Here I have tried also to make the same as the Ball Pit filter, to add the possible feature of adding images to the balls instead of only having plain colors, which are also beautiful.

Posted: January 23, 2012 12:38 pm

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Forget about the lottery balls. Bad suggestion.

There are no bad suggestions, even if not all of them can be fulfilled.

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Yes, I have just seen that is possible to change the result with reflectivity and reflectivity blur

Yes and no. In the ball pit filter you COULD do this, because the reflectivity and reflection blur options would affect the balls.
In the Gum Ball machine filter it would be impossible, because the balls themselves are INSIDE the glass dome, and the reflectivity settings apply to it only.
The reflectivity, reflection blur, height and metallic settings affect the top most layer of you filter (In this case the machine).
That's why I said it would be possible to do with a metalic looking gradient in the beginning.

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...the glass effect of the gumball container is very realistic and well done, it really looks like a real one...

You can thank Amethyst for his amazing work on the Snowglobe filter smile:)

I just copied what he did in there...

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BALLS WITH IMAGES INSTEAD OF COLORS

This reminds me of the prize machines they have for kids, where you insert a coin and get a random ball with a little crappy toy in it smile:D

Posted: January 23, 2012 1:52 pm

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Morgantao wrote: Yes and no. In the ball pit filter you COULD do this, because the reflectivity and reflection blur options would affect the balls. In the Gum Ball machine filter it would be impossible, because the balls themselves are INSIDE the glass dome, and the reflectivity settings apply to it only.

I have just discovered this myself before you have wrote this smile:D

, as I went to modify the reflectivity of the balls to convert them into metallic balls and found that it was impossible because the reflectivity setting are applied to the OUTSIDE of the glass dome, and has no effect to the balls inside.

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BALLS WITH IMAGES INSTEAD OF COLORS

This reminds me of the prize machines they have for kids, where you insert a coin and get a random ball with a little crappy toy in it

Oh yes, I did not think it this way, is true that there are some machines with printed outside balls and you get one of the random one BUT always includes a crappy and toy inside smile:D

By the way if you want to try it yourself, I included here the filter for you or anyone else.

GumBall Machine with Images.ffxml

Posted: January 23, 2012 2:01 pm

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Gene S Morgan

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Really cool .......

Posted: January 23, 2012 8:39 pm

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Morgantao wrote: There are no bad suggestions, even if not all of them can be fulfilled.

Thanks, itÂ´s true. So as you can only have 5 textures, I have another idea, your gumball machine, could be transformed into a Sports Ball selling machine smile:D

Of course that for this to be true, the machine would have huge proportions to be able to have lots of sports ball inside in real human sizes.

You could have the gumballs transformed into Soccer balls, tennis balls, basketballs, baseballs and voleyballs smile:D