Learn how to use the Bomber plus Chances that is called Opacity

or have some 50 Size Chaos

And this with above values of bomber at 0 and change only the Size Chaos to 50

If you modify the settings and then the particles are mixed and as some of them have some transparency the others will be shown through the transparency, so this could be a problem or not depending of what you want to achieve.

So, if you really want to have some transparency on some of the particles and that other particles can be seen through other particles then you should use the grayscale instead of only black and white

Also consider that the transparency will give perhaps depending of the image, some visual "shadow" as the opacity of the particles will depend on the different levels of grey

Here is an example of converting the source image just only with the Desaturate component and nothing else (as said above, you can use the Adjustments component to further modify the greyscale)

As you can see the red is not the same on all the particles and there also some kind of shadow effect and layering, that is not bad if you want this effect

NOISES COMPONENTS

You can also use any of the Noises components available to modify and control the Opacity chances in Bomber

The default noises are greyscale and may not give good results with the default values, so you can modify the values or uses other components to modify the output

So, If you want sharp Noises and that give better results, you may use them combined with High Pass, Threshold, Invert and/or Adjustments components to modify the Noise output and then connect it to the Opacity in Bomber plus

Consider to use the Invert when you want that the area that you want to use it is black and you need it to be white, as I have said above white = 100% particles, and Black is 0%

and here is the result with bomber plus using the last Invert component of the fourth row above after high pass

In this one the Repeat is increased to 43 and Density = 2 but the stars overlap

GRADIENT COMPONENTS

You can use any of the gradient components (for Elevation gradient you need to give a elevation source before using it) connected to the Opacity but as I have already told above for the Greyscale images, you will get a lot of variable transparency of the particles according to how much the grey values are from black

You will get a distribution of the particles starting from the white part that will go down in opacity until dissappear in the black, it will follow the direction

For example using the default Profile gradient

and this maybe could be used with a background and mix the particles with the background in some way

and the other way making the mortar black and the tiles white gives this below

Be aware in this one you must be very careful selecting the repeat values, as for example in the example below you must use only 23 repeat with the tiles values given above, because if you use any other value it will NOT show the tiles content in the same way and will break the tiles mask

Bomber Repeat 23 and Density 1 with the tiles setting above gives all the squares with 3 rows of stars as shown here below

I have been using the Concentric circles as particles but they can also be used as a mask for the Opacity with some size chaos

Repeat 18 and Density 2

You can mix if want two bombers with an inverted stripes on one of them and blend them

Hey Spaceray, did you know you can make your last example with the red and blue stripes using only ONE Bomber Plus?

You just need to use a "helper" component.
(FF calls them slave components but I'm not into that stuff)

See below. Maaaaany possibilities open up when you do stuff like this.

To create a helper component for the bomber plus, select the bomber plus and scroll down past all the controls to the buttons that say "add ___".

I have another additional options to use as mask for the Opacity in Bomber and is the following filters I have found

For these ones, you can either render the result from the filters and use a color control to load the images in the Opacity or copy the filter and connect it to the bomber Opacity

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One Millon alphas filter by CorvusCroax that is able to create black and white shapes in different ways





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Or the beautiful and lovely geometric shapes of

Optical Chaos 3 by Skybase

Be aware that if you are using any of the colors, it will be converted to greyscale values and will have maybe some possible transparency, so if you want full solid shapes from bomber you must use only black and white in this filter



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Yin&Yang by Betis



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and this one

Shape bonanza by voldemort



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or the nice and well done lines of

Lines World Cup SQ - Lite by Ramlyn



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Or this great and lovely circular shapes

LRM - Lines Rotation Machine



Be aware that if you are using the red color, it will be converted to greyscale and will have maybe some possible transparency

Optical Chaos 3 by Skybase

You can use 'If' 'Randomizer' > 'Chance Control' + SetAlpha + in Bomber Plus -> Particle

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mitaywalle wrote: You can use 'If' 'Randomizer' > 'Chance Control' + SetAlpha + in Bomber Plus -> Particle

Thanks very much for this useful and interesting way of having a chance slider in Bomber plus, cool. Will see what I can do with it and how it works and what things can be done,

Much aprecciated as you have unique and great ways to do things

filter

Bomber Plus Opacity combined.ffxml

and this way with my snippet posted earlier