Tablets by Lucato

Tablets by Lucato
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/502.html

Also, looks like it has a small problem -- look at this variation, the pills and the packaging are a bit "desynchronized":
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/502-v6.html

@ Vladimir

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Ahhh, my medicine! Lucato, this is fantastic!

- Thanks Vlad.

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Also, looks like it has a small problem -- look at this variation, the pills and the packaging are a bit "desynchronized":

- Urgh! Ok, I'll give you back the fantastic. These mass production! I knew the new machines would do some wrong lots. Serious now, OMG, I didn't notice that Vlad. I guess to fix that I will need here some new "IF" Control from FF programmers team. Somtehing to say IF 'control x,y or z' is >=, =, <, ... THAN 'message pop-up' or 'a new value'. Well, anyway I'll try to fix that. Btw, I thought that the variations were the ones we have added and not that FF team would change them to put in the site. Well, It was good, because you got that "bug" that I didn't notice before. Thanks for the warning.

@ Crapadilla:

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The normal map shows conic shapes for the tablet encasements. Shouldn't these rather be flat-topped plateaus with rounded edges?

Hi Crapadilla, I didn't noticed that too. Actually, to be honest I'm not familiarized with maps, bumps, and so on. I'm Very newbie with Filter Forge.

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Furthermore, the bump map betrays that the tablets are actually pushed into the surface rather than raised out of it.

I'm sorry, but my English isn't so good. Did you mean something like It seems be low relief instead off high relief? Hmmm, for me the texture seem to be bumped out. The bump map seem flat, and I have no idea if it can be bumped out. As I said before, very newbie with that stuffs.

I'm sorry folks for the mistakes. I'll try to avoid them in the future.

Cheers,
Lucato.

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Yes. A bump map basically is a height map, where...

Hey Crapadilla, what a wonderful tip. I had no idea about that. Info like that should be like that 'Sticky:' ones. Actually FF team we would have an short explanation of each render maps (Filter/Render Maps/7 types)

Thanks a lot for the help Crapa! Btw, would you mind to post the ffxml file of this sample so I can check it out?

Yes, it looks better now. Lucato, can you submit this as an update?

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Lucato wrote: Vlad, I'll try to fix the 'conic shapes' and resubmit, but not this version.

Sounds good.

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Hehe, as I said, it was just a quick height fix, not an artistic one.

- Yup buddy, you've said that before. Don't get me wrong. I I didn't want to mean that was a final one and even wanted to put down your help.

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The question comes down to whether you want to provide usable 3D output for your filter or not, its an artistic and a technical choice. Your original filter sure looks great in the final rendered result, but the maps are inconsistent from a 3D artist's perspective. It's also an editorial dilemma I think: Do we HAVE to provide consistent 3D map output or are we allowed to ignore it?

Excellent point Crapadilla! Like these tablets aren't really a texture to fill some object in 3D programs. Actually this tablet "texture" is just a final rendered image. Ok, that the "cone" can be improved a little, but as you've said, in the final rendered as a image it's ok. Before your nice explanation above I had no idea about bump maps. So, how could I provide consistent 3D map output.

Hi GMM, thanks for the link.

Thanks a lot Vlad.