Offset: how to 'bend' things?

Obviously, you want to have the textures bend accordingly.

I would use the spherize/unspherize snippet, using one quarter of it, and just plain splice it together from three pieces.

It is possible to make it tile, but it is rather complicated; you'll have to semi-rebuild the spherize/unspherize snippet using the Tiles Component and put a control of how many tiles in that way. I did something similar recently for Rgoer for his spiral animation (I doubt you can make it tile with the "Size, Pixels" control).

You will have to divide the offset percentages in the spherize/unspherize snippet by the number of tiles to make it work. Division math can be done, and a snippet or a few exist on the subject.

And you would have to have at least one tiled component that controlled the selection of which bend angle to use, quantized for 90 and -90 degrees.

I also recall seeing a filter "the perfect arc," which attempted something similar (not tiled), but I'm not too familiar with it.

Thought about this for a minute when 3d brought up spherize/unspherize snippet..I used the circle bits from that and using the any angle rotate from Uber one can bend the line..
Heres the curve bending snippet...

bendy thing2.ffxml

Made a snippet for this. Coming soon to a filter library near you.

Does this:

No, it is done by spherizing and splicing so that the textures bend properly. Sort of like this (simplified):

The snippet just does that one bend that you see. You can either use the same methodology to do the bend the other way or rotate the whole thing around, depending on how you're putting your texture together. The snippet is in the library now.

However, this ain't half the challenge of making it tile, you're gonna have fun figuring that out...

(But don't worry, it's easier than solving the Rubik's cube.)

Hint: Check out Voldemort's Random Rotate Tile.

uglyboys,

why dont you just update your version if it's 'an older version'. updates so far have been free.

that isnt the update; that's the demo, but it's also the commercial version. if you didnt have filter forge (FF), you would download the demo and install it. that is good for 30 days, but if you purchased it you would get a permanent cd/product key that you enter into the program and it makes it the final, commercial version. once you had that and if the demo you downloaded wasnt already the current version, you would use the update feature in FF to simply automatically update your current version.

now, if you already have FF paid for and installed and it's not a current version, you'd simply use the built in product update feature to make your version the current version.

but, if all you have is the demo installed and the 30 day trial has run out, you can apply for an additional 30 days by using the contact form here on the forums. if that is approved, that would give you a new product key to input and you'd then use that to make your version active again and then download the new version off the web page.

Here's a visual:

Cool, but not sure what the use would be.

you can also check my snippet in the library. i made a rainbow filter that 'bent' a bar and i seem to recall i made a snippet of that and put in the library.