Belgium Ripple filter render size

Yep its that filter...Not an efficient filter for the bigger sizes....Eliminate the motion blur and some of those distortions then it will work good...

So far anything I replace Motion blur with, really messes up the look. The closest replacement component seems to be Smudge, but end result still not good.
Just a couple hours of trying so far. So now I'll see find another filter with similar look and see how they did it and if I can use something from that to replace some components of the Belgium Ripple filter.

A lot of the "slowness" in this filter comes from the highpass / blur that goes into the heightmap.

Here's what I did instead (it looks pretty similar). Rendering time for the a 600x600 image of the default preset cut by ~40% on my PC. I haven't tested large images or higher AA.

*for FF team: Both the original filter and my mod run slower in the FF4 Beta!

Belgium Ripple (faster).ffxml

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A lot of the "slowness" in this filter comes from the highpass / blur that goes into the heightmap. Here's what I did instead (it looks pretty similar). Rendering time for the a 600x600 image of the default preset cut by ~40% on my PC. smile:) I haven't tested large images or higher AA. *for FF team: Both the original filter and my mod run slower in the FF4 Beta! smile:?: Belgium Ripple (faster).ffxml

Thanks for mentioning that.
I modified your faster version and added several controls and would like to share it in this thread, But I don't know how to post it to this thread, like you did with your faster version.

I need help from Indigo Ray or anyone that can do it.
I was wondering if you can load this new filter (the Frankiefied Plus) version and add the surface height increase like you did in the faster version you posted earlier in this thread. I could not figure out how to duplicate that when I updated the obsolete motion blur

I was able to add a lot more controls but it still lacks the depth yours had by increasing the surface height.

Some more controls I added in this plus version.
Scale
Stretch
Improved Scrolling
Contrast
Reflectivity features which for some reason had not been working under the lighting tab. I'm totally new at this stuff, I put a lot of work into this and just need a little help to get it completed. I've got about 20 hours in on these modifications. If I knew what I was doing and was not such a NewB I could have knocked out the improvements in less than an hour.

I'm trying to have 0 obsolete components.

Thanks very much for any help.

And again
Thanks to Dr Evil for creating this wonderful filter in the first place. I hoping I'm not violating any filter etiquette by reposting this filter with improvements here.

I would not post this as my own work in the filter gallery, because it's still got the same basic look. But if DrEvil would post it there I would be honored and more people would get to use it.

Thanks to all for the help. I learned a lot more today.
Frank

Belgium Ripple (Frankified Plus).ffxml