Mind bender anyone - Paisley textile texture?

Don't use set number inputs for sizing maps.

jffe

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Conniekat8 wrote: I appreciate your tip here, I really really do, but this is still way over my head (for a little while) LOL, I'm at the level of hitting the randomize button.

----Open the filters, look at the size input, delete the slider, then drink, smoke, think.

jffe

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Conniekat8 wrote: When I get home I'll have to show you a pic of what I made so far... by copying and pasting parts of other filters (I hope that's okay to do)

----It's fine, we usually give shout-outs in the filter description to people we borrow bits from if we end up submitting the filter to the library, but it's fine.
----Some components have size inputs, but rather than just setting a number size, or even sticking a slider on them for adjustable sizes, try running another component into them, that's how you get variable sizes. Or, I use to just double or triple everything up with different internal settings, then blend it together for some more randomish looks, which can work just as well or better in some cases, but at the cost of longer render times.

jffe

connie,

shapes are not FF's forte...yet. we're hoping the version 2.xx will add these. in the meantime, study some of the shape type filters for ideas on how to get that paisley shape. it shld be possible. once you get one, you can re-size it, mirror it, repeat it and so on to get a pattern of them going. as to exactly how you might get that shape, i dont really know at this point. and if all else fails, you could always substitute in 'tie dye'

yeah, i believe he did, jffe. not sure it's released in the library. it might be in the forums here somewhere, though.

well, it was one of you geniuses. i cant keep track

Filter Geniuses would be about right

okay, I've been saying I was going to post a screenshot of my paisley attempts.
It doesn't *really* look like paisley, but it does look like something...
Started by using Alhambra #G8-2 filter by Ghost IV, and changing a lot of things around. The textile Weave needs a lot more work before it looks like a textile (at least what I have for textile in my head)

And in my quest for paisley's, I eneded up with a serendipitous Asian fusion stylized bamboo thicket type look. I could see this hanging on someone's Shoji screen LOL

I hear ya, the little dots and things would make it complex (the construction of the filter, right?) It would have to be some sort of a math function, perhaps a modified chlotoid formula. I wonder if fractal generator wouldn't come in handy for that...

Anyway, I've been focused on textile design patterns lately, for 3D work I've been doing. If anyone happens to know of software or utilities that may be worth checking out, outside of FF, I'm all ears