looking for filter, should I hire a FF expert?

Ghislaine has made several Spirogram creators such as this.

She might be able to help you.

Thanks, for sure I'm not the one that will take on this challenge.
That's not a job for a beginner like me.


The closest filter I've found is the one from Sammy:Metal weave by Sammy

Another example with more of a drawn look.

Ok, that's good to hear. So you indicated you need "map" output. Do you mean black & white for use as a height (bump) map in your rendering software?? Do you need a normal map? I am going to look for more patterns. It seems that the "drawn" one I show above is used a lot in watches.

Also, you might be able to do a test with the previous image as input to your rendering software. Let me know how you want to proceed.

UPDATE: Since my French is so poor, I found an English page on Guilloché (engine turning) with some great examples and a great video on the topic.

Guilloché (Engine-Turning)

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Rick Duim wrote: Guilloché (Engine-Turning)

Thanks for the link, that's very interesting.

I've more affinity with the straight line than the circle one. The circle one can be crop to get rid of the center and offset the pattern from the center by quite a good margin to avoid/minimized the concentric effect.

Regarding the soft (vray), the bump as well as the normal map can be plug easily for sure. The diffuse will be done inside vray directly and I may tried to plug the occlusion map on top of the diffuse map using a mix map.
As per the Metallic & specular, I don't know yet so I have to run some test.

Whaou, that sounds ambitious. I'm trying to get the right result into vray but need some input from the vray community forum to get the FF input map right into the right slot of the render engine. For now it looks a lot better in FF than in Vray.

It did not take that long to come up with some results. Here are some results, taking the bump map and putting them through Surface Texture Engine again.

One more for the evening.

Here is a test, including bump/map & specular.
Not so good compare to the reference watch photography. I probably have to work the lighting more.

here are the setup

And another bump map with larger details for your testing.

Ok, here is part one of the task at hand. This is the the "bump map" version of the filter without lighting, you can use it in Vray etc etc.

Note that as you download the filter, let FF 5 run it. You will find the filter in the My Filters folder.

I will officially release the full version next week with lighting and all of the maps, such as bump, diffuse, normal etc.

Guilloche Map.ffxml