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Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	I'm just playing, having fun with FF and wanted a place to post. Here's one that is sort of like ocean rock. In fact the last one even seems to have a few tube worms popping up so will have to look and see where they are coing from.
	Posted: February 14, 2013 11:48 am	Details E-Mail
Sharandra Filter Forge Addict Posts: 863 Filters: 26	Oh nice, coral reefs! Looks promising
	Posted: February 14, 2013 4:29 pm	Details E-Mail
ddaydreams Frank Hawkins Posts: 412 Filters: 1	I like the top image best.
	Posted: February 14, 2013 8:40 pm	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	Thanks. I imagine its the same for everyone but I was doing something else, saw an interesting pattern and cut it out to start a new filter. I've got a whole bunch of these little snips now allw waiting to become filters - whether I get to them or not is another question.
	Posted: February 14, 2013 9:01 pm	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	Decided to create some 'base rock' to grow the coral on. Trying to figure out a few things and place some little sea urchins, plants, shells etc 'on top' of the rock but right now every thing is embedded.
	Posted: February 15, 2013 10:04 am	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	Played with the 'base rock' again today but has grown a litle heavy. I was working on some shrimp and othe critters but had to simplify them as it was crawling.
	Posted: February 18, 2013 4:48 am	Details E-Mail
Sharandra Filter Forge Addict Posts: 863 Filters: 26	Looks great! I like the rock with itÂ´s little caves, can almost see little fishes swim in and out!
	Posted: February 18, 2013 8:11 am	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	Thanks. I actually thought of putting some eyes in the dark areas but will have to optimize it some as it was starting to crawl.
	Posted: February 18, 2013 12:46 pm	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	Well I see there is a user gallery s maybe this thread should have been there -not sure. Anyway trying to mix the coral and the rock above now. Still needs to be optimized, a few small critters and som lighting effects I hope. Fun though I'm getting even less slep than usual playing with FF.
	Posted: February 21, 2013 3:17 am	Details E-Mail
Skybase 2D/3D Generalist Posts: 4025 Filters: 76	I really love your color scheme! These are looking wonderful!
	Posted: February 21, 2013 3:47 am	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	Thanks. I am having fun with this.
	Posted: February 21, 2013 1:31 pm	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	Well still poking at this -almost lost it after making some changes as I was looking at some nodes, but not the final render -and at some point I had broken it. I was able to go to an older backup and get it mostly the same but still need to rework the lighting, solve a few placement issues (getting some floating polyps to attach to the right spots) and then optimize. This image took 45 minutes to render!
	Posted: February 26, 2013 3:57 pm	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	Here's one more (again 45 minutes yikes. making copies and optimizing soon). It's ugly squashed top down view but you can see the shrimp anyway.
	Posted: February 26, 2013 7:21 pm	Details E-Mail
Sharandra Filter Forge Addict Posts: 863 Filters: 26	Cool! Love the shrimps!
	Posted: March 4, 2013 2:22 pm	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	Well trying to trim it down. Put everything including the kitchen sink in there and it is slow. Trying to optimize and cutting out a few things which probably will have to be seperate filters. I wanted to build a full ocean replicator but guess I may have overstepped my ability and RAM just a bit.
	Posted: March 4, 2013 6:18 pm	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	I'm thinking I will have to submit this soon and do a second round. I have a lot to learn about optimizing and found the excellent Wiki articles after I built this monstrosity. I removed some sections and have tried to use some of the techniques but wil likely have to rebuild it section by section to take advnatage of some of the techniques. I'm down from about an hour rendering to 40 minutes. Here is one in progress.
	Posted: March 4, 2013 9:09 pm	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	Thanks to Skybases's answer to my grid question Forum Post I now have some schooling fish.
	Posted: March 6, 2013 6:40 pm	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	Well finished for now though far from perfect. Some trouble uploading so will try tomorrow. In the mean time here are a few renders.
	Posted: March 7, 2013 2:50 am	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	Here's another.
	Posted: March 7, 2013 2:51 am	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	and one final one for tonight...
	Posted: March 7, 2013 2:51 am	Details E-Mail
Sharandra Filter Forge Addict Posts: 863 Filters: 26	Very cool, especially the last one. The school of fish is great!
	Posted: March 7, 2013 9:26 am	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	Thanks. Lost some things in all the changes like the polyps in the tubes. Also some of the nice detail when I switched it to a Simple filter but learned a lot and will fix some of those things in the next version.
	Posted: March 7, 2013 9:41 am	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	While waiting to get past this upload error I took a sample Indigo Ray provided and simplified to add a basic 'Camera Mode' -zoom, rotate, up/down/left/right.
	Posted: March 7, 2013 9:14 pm	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	I was just playing with some curves and got some interesting patterns. Not enough to submit to the Library so posting it here. Gradient and Curves (1).ffxml
	Posted: March 7, 2013 10:44 pm	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	Here's one render
	Posted: March 7, 2013 10:45 pm	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	Here's another
	Posted: March 7, 2013 10:48 pm	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	Here's that same curve with Pavement.
	Posted: March 9, 2013 9:19 pm	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	Well just added a simple motion trail and turned this into a snippet filter. It doesn't offset the image in any way so lots can still be done to it but I though the effect was cool.
	Posted: March 11, 2013 6:17 pm	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	Well I'm just fooling around -actually tring to understand how the coral filter generates its height - I got it but want to be able to reproduce at will. In my poking I came up with this effect which looks like sci-fi buildings - or maybe I'm reaching and just want to see it.
	Posted: March 12, 2013 7:18 pm	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	here's another
	Posted: March 12, 2013 7:18 pm	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	and one final one.
	Posted: March 12, 2013 7:18 pm	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	If I don't screw this up I think I will try to make a sci-fi background generator.
	Posted: March 12, 2013 8:22 pm	Details E-Mail
Sharandra Filter Forge Addict Posts: 863 Filters: 26	Oh cool! I did some greeble experiments earlier, because I originally wanted to make a death star in the foreground of my space scene filter, but I failed so far lol.
	Posted: March 12, 2013 9:32 pm	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	This started as the unexpected result of an experiment. I'll work on it a bit and add some controls before submitting -right now still manually plugging and unplugging some connections to see different results.
	Posted: March 13, 2013 10:39 am	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	Well no controls yet, still randomly plugging and unplugging inputs, trying different gradients, shapes and patterns as inputs and just fooling around to see what might be possible - not really a linear thinker (to my dismay). It's cool because on some renders I can almost see tiny windows, ceiling and floor patterns, doors and other features - I know I'm probably losing it. Wonder if they wife would let me take a week off work with no pay so I could play with FF? Anyway I thought this one came out cool too.
	Posted: March 13, 2013 5:38 pm	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	I was poking at some way to generate anemones or soft corals for the coral filter and I missed the obvious - the lowly polygon does a pretty good job.
	Posted: March 14, 2013 12:56 am	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	Hope I'm not boring anyone with my babble -just having lots of fun with Filter Forge (wish I could fin a way to do this for a living ). More play with Bomber, Smudge and curves and ThreeDee's answer to my question based on Sphinx's improved Smudge bit -already messed up my first example above with too much tweaking I have also been experimenting with using the Frame component on several filters as a square gradient of sorts - some weird and interesting results now and then.
	Posted: March 15, 2013 12:17 pm	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	a few more.
	Posted: March 15, 2013 12:19 pm	Details E-Mail
SpaceRay SpaceRay Posts: 12302 Filters: 35	Good and nice smudge tests you have done with those greeble experiments
	Posted: March 16, 2013 1:29 am	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	This is a simple sample of greeble 'city' based on ThreeDee's sample which as based on Sphinx's sample. Greebleville.ffxml
	Posted: March 16, 2013 6:44 pm	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	Here's a shot -nothing fancy.
	Posted: March 16, 2013 6:47 pm	Details E-Mail
Sharandra Filter Forge Addict Posts: 863 Filters: 26	Lol weird distortions I like the cities.
	Posted: March 17, 2013 9:32 am	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	I'm going to try to clean up and post some of the other versions I posted earlier about, see if I can add at least some control.
	Posted: March 17, 2013 12:21 pm	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	Playing with the greeble city idea some more. I'm not sure if this will actually be useful to people working with textures or not but it is fun.
	Posted: March 18, 2013 5:41 pm	Details E-Mail
Burt Random Old Guy Posts: 333 Filters: 12	Well I went off on a real tangent with this greeble stuff - and it was just an accidental result that derailed me. The brain is mush. Anyway this popped out today and thought it looked cool.
	Posted: March 22, 2013 1:16 am	Details E-Mail