Roofing tile

I havent' seen any simple round style roofing tile around. Does this look like something worth submitting?
Any improvement suggestions?

connie, i like that first one, at least for roof tiles. that second one, i'd be tempted to remove the extra iterations and separate out just one column and make that into something, like pipe or something. it's an interesting look but just a bit out of the reality of roof tile.

Why not grunge it up a bit, and a few chips/crack maybe

What are you on about

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jffe wrote: but why do people always want cracked this, and grungey that ?

People want textures that are realistic and what creates realism is the imperfection, skill in adding the right amount for whatever application

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jffe wrote: "manliness" trip to me overall.

LOL

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jffe wrote: that's a single digit percentage compared to the market for magazine ads/brochure makers and other graphic artists doing 3-D modelling and even 2-D graphics for clients, and do ya really think they wanna make an ad for some new condo development with chipped roofing tiles ? Ha-ha, I kinda doubt it.

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jffe wrote: and more likely to get used too

If you look through the popular texture filters you'll find that the majority are grungy/imperfect/ or damaged, which doesn't support your statistics

Your energy would would have been better used to suggest ideas rather than critiquing my suggestion which can be used or ignored

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Carl wrote: If you look through the popular texture filters you'll find that the majority are grungy/imperfect/ or damaged, which doesn't support your statistics

----That's just because the grown ups haven't discovered FF yet, so far it's gamers, and wallpaper people, with the odd person like myself with no specific reason to use FF at all ha-ha.

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Carl wrote: Your energy would would have been better used to suggest ideas rather than critiquing my suggestion which can be used or ignored

----It totally wasn't aimed at *you*, just your comment about adding chipped parts or whatever, is 100% typical of what I see on FF all the time, for no real reason that I can tell. Except that like I said, so far not many if any real professional graphic artists have made filters yet, cause there ain't none with day jawbs looking for f*cked up shingles to use in a clients ad ha-ha. Just saying, to all you grunge junkies, have it optional, or yer gonna lose well over 1/2 your audience down the road I bet. But yeah, Carl, it really wasn't aimed at you, your comment just reminded me of how many times I'd heard that same type of comment on here, so I thought I'd question it once and for all. No offense to you meant etc.

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Kraellin wrote: that actually raises a good point. a texture is just a texture. what additional features shld be added to that texture, or any texture, like grunge and lighting? is that desireable to the end user or does it detract from it?

----Well, that's a lot of 2nd guessing there, I dunno what all people want/need in a filter. My whole rant was from a year's+ of having to hear people rave and swoon about used/damaged looking filters, as though that was the ONLY way to make something worthwhile. You do seem to get the idea of what I was saying though. Any kind of automatic reaction/suggestion (grunge/chipped bits) in this case, maybe deserves a closer look.

jffe

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jffe wrote: How about just something that repeats a design a hair different each time ? Same skill required as for random cracks and moss eh, but nicer looking in the end, and more likely to get used too. Just some thoughts on that kind of thing, and NOT pointed at any one person.

Now that's an interesting thought! I'm not sure how to begin to go about that one. Perhaps add some mild noise distortion? I tried making arched cobblestone this way, and it hasn't worked yet.

Initially I tried making this same, or similar filter using tile pattern generator, but didn't succeed. Mind you, I'm at a beginner level with filter making (from scratch), so maybe some of you filter guru's can make a tile variant of this... I'm thinking tile because that one has a built in irregularity option. I'm not even sure it's possible.

There's also a varied profile roof tile that I need to make (wave, or horizontal s shape), but I got stuck. Need to learn more before I can progress with it.

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Conniekat8 wrote: Now that's an interesting thought! I'm not sure how to begin to go about that one. Perhaps add some mild noise distortion?

----I've done it that way, along with several other ways. It kind of depends on the filter, and what all parts you do and do not, want to change over time/space. Sjeiti has that quilt one, I haven't looked inside it, but something tells me that's yet another way to do it that isn't on my list of 3 or 4 ways. So yeah, there are most likely infinite ways to modulate a repeating shape/pattern, we've only scratched the surface (pun intended?) of that way of grunge-ing things up for realism eh.

jffe