Filter Forge - Country Generator

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Skybase 2D/3D Generalist Posts: 4025 Filters: 76	Back in 2008, when I finally bought Filter Forge, I began making things that I always wanted to make. One of the first things that came to mind was to make a country generator. Basically makes "countries" based on noise patterns or photographs. I just wanted to share this with you guys. Too bad I lost the filter due to a Windows XP error which purged my entire save items, while it retained the contents of my programs. I'm trying to remake the filter to the best of my memory, but it's hitting the ascetic wall. Oh well, I'll upload the ffxml file sometime after I get something good going.
	Posted: January 5, 2009 11:58 am	Details E-Mail
Skybase 2D/3D Generalist Posts: 4025 Filters: 76	Just another example I wanted to post. If you want to see some more interesting results based on photographic elements, just reply. Here I set the colors and shifted hues around. Very simple effect with amazingly beautiful results.
	Posted: January 5, 2009 12:00 pm	Details E-Mail
Skybase 2D/3D Generalist Posts: 4025 Filters: 76	One last example then I kinda have something to say. Because I lost this file, I kinda want to get it back... SO I need some help. I'll upload the basic Country Generator up here after I kinda get things working again. I began re-making the filter in the Mac Beta when it was crashing crazy. Either way I got some basic bits and pieces going and somehow its "close" to it's long lost brother filter. Just needs tons of tweaking, color corrections, and otherwise. I need to finalize certain portions of the filter. I have tons of components flying around doing weird things, and I'm just in the process of removing those temporary bits. I'll get it here as soon as I can. Thanks
	Posted: January 5, 2009 12:08 pm	Details E-Mail
Kraellin Kraellin Posts: 12749 Filters: 99	very clever If wishes were horses... there'd be a whole lot of horse crap to clean up! Craig
	Posted: January 5, 2009 12:08 pm	Details E-Mail
Betis The Blacksmith Posts: 1207 Filters: 76	Wow, that's awesome! I would have never thought of making it, let alone having the skill to do it, very nice! Oh, but you lost it... Hmm... I'll experiment Roses are #FF0000 Violets are #0000FF All my base are belong to you.
	Posted: January 5, 2009 7:25 pm	Details E-Mail
Mike Blackney Posts: 375 Filters: 57	Political maps of fantasy worlds! Awesome! These look great, I hope you can recreate the filter (or something similar).
	Posted: January 5, 2009 8:56 pm	Details E-Mail
Crapadilla lvl 52 Filter Weaver and Official "Filter Forge Seer" Posts: 4365 Filters: 65	--- Crapadilla says: "Damn you, stupid redundant feature requests!" ;)
	Posted: January 6, 2009 5:53 am	Details E-Mail
Skybase 2D/3D Generalist Posts: 4025 Filters: 76	I made this out of my memory so basically everything is fresh. Current version is clearly less complicated than the older one. I did this mostly out of my memory, but whatever the case is, it doesn't look like the old filter at all. The point is I kinda did whatever I can to get back the basic components of the filter. Elements such as how the landmass was generated, outlines, and countries themselves. What obviously needs working is: 1. Ocean masses and water (textures) If you actually look at the older version and compare the renders generated by this version, the water mass looks boring. 2. Several no-nos. I'm breaking construction rules for a temporary time. 3. The shape of the landmass itself. Oh man... look at the difference. 4. Coloring method. It's ... ugly. Wonder what I can come up with. Hope I can get this done soon Country Generator.ffxml
	Posted: January 8, 2009 9:08 am	Details E-Mail
Apples Posts: 109 Filters: 37	This is a true gem you working on here. Keep up the good work! May The Forge Be With You
	Posted: January 11, 2009 12:36 pm	Details E-Mail