Mix Inujima´s Ornamented balls with the Morgantao´s Ball Pit filter ?

Technicaly speaking it IS possible to do so, but as you said it's gonna be a CPU intensive filter. It would probably take 10 minutes to render a 600*600 pixel ball pit.

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BUT probably not if the balls are small size as they are in Ball pit filter.

Just the opposite - The smaller the balls, the more balls there are, the more balls there are, the longer the render time.
Just try the ball pit with lots of small balls, you'll see it takes longer to render than a ball pit with large balls.

The biggest problem I find myself is HOW to be able to MIX the result of Inujima´s balls WITH another filter, because the final result IS MADE TOTALLY by the result component, and then after the result component CAN´T be connected to any other component.

As I still have little knowdledge about the Filter Editor and it´s many components I do not how to replace the result component with another one (or a group of components) and get the same result but with the ability to mix this with another filter.

Here I have made a screenshot of what I mean

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Morgantao wrote: I think your best bet is to render out 5 ornament balls and save them, then use them in my filter as images instead of the balls.

Thanks very for your suggestion, this could be true and good way, and I will try as you have suggested, BUT I think that "probably" (i do not know as I have not tried it) is not the best way, because then you would loose the beautiful work you have done with the gradients to make the balls, so perhaps the solution is to render the 2D texture version of the inujimas balls and then try to wrap them in your own balls, as I have done with the FF built-in images. Should try and see.

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Morgantao wrote: If you still insist on doing it as areal filter, you need to have 5 bombers for each bomber in my filter - One for Surface Color, one for height, one for Reflection, etc. That would mean 20 bombers in the case of the ball pit. Then you will have to Multiblend each of the 4 similar bombers from the 5 groups of bombers. That would mean 5 Multiblends. Then you could connect the 5 Multiblends to the 5 inputs of the result component. That's all you have to do, assuming I didn't forget anything

That´s is ALL I have to do ? Help I am buried under lots of components

Ok although it seems complicate, But really it could be much simpler, because making one, you just copy it to the others.

Will try to make it as you have said and see what happens

Thanks very much for all your help you are giving me in creating filters.

Here is close up with some more details

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SpaceRay wrote: perhaps the solution is to render the 2D texture version of the inujimas balls and then try to wrap them in your own balls, as I have done with the FF built-in images

It's a possibility, but then you lose the layering effect where the metalic part of Inujima's balls is higher than the texture.
What you will get is only the top lookup of his filter (The one connected to surface color of the result).
Either way, you lose something in the process.

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Help I am buried under lots of components.... .... it could be much simpler, because making one, you just copy it to the others.

As you said, it's not that hard to add the components, because you can just copy and paste them, but you will have a spider web of connections to make, and that could prove tricky sometimes. Missing one connection in the sea of connection can give you erratic results and a big headache

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You beat me to the answer
A couople of comments to what you have showed us here:

1) Reduce the saturation slider of all the colors to anything between 75 to 90 to get MUCH better colors.

2) Render 5 ornament balls in their actual spherical projection, with a transparent alpha, and use those as your overlay images. That will give the illusion of a 3D ball and not a circular cropped texture with a gradient on it