Looking For A Filter

I have searched the library and tried multiple paint/brushstroke FF filters but can't seem to find one that creates a really visual brush stroke like I used to get with PaintShop Pro's "Virtual Painter". Is there a FF filter that can do something like this...

Here´s an example

It´s not in the library, just click on the attached ffxml file.

Edit: If it doesn´t open in FF automatically, move it to your my filters folder. (Users/ YourNAme/AppData/Roaming/FilterForge 3/MyFilters on windows)

Sharandra beat me to making it haha I guess I'll post what I was doing when I can!

Glad I could help. Here is a version with an optional frame. Btw, you can use the size slider for smaller brushstrokes.

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Ozmandias wrote: That makes me wonder how many other great filters are in existence but not available in the library. smile:(

We all got our secret treasures!
Maybe I´ll tweak it a bit and submit it sometime.

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Skybase wrote: Sharandra beat me to making it smile:)

Yay! Wasn´t hard tho, as I already had it. It was an experiment I did a while ago. Originally it was just plaster/paint on a wall
And I´m curious with what you came up with, so yeah post it!

Added in an Angle control, so you can change the angle of some brushstrokes.

Paintstrokes 2.ffxml

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Added in an Angle control, so you can change the angle of some brushstrokes.

That was fast! I'll try it out... thanks!

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Me too.

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Now you know tho, why it´s not in the library smile:D

Not sure I understand what you mean.

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I bet Skybase comes up with something that flows with the image

Hope so!

So I reopened that filter project after a couple days of inactivity! Didn't forget... just the problem is that... well now it looks totally different from the picture that was posted as reference. heh. This is what I get for working at 4 am in the morning.

I'm going to add some controls and post it here. The filter was made in version 4.0 beta, so umm... if you have 3.0 Filter does render in approx. 32 seconds without anti-alias. Visually, the filter really doesn't need it. There are quite a load of heavy details and 1 bomber that produces the overall effect. Pretty sure I can knock out more nodes though or least add a preview mode for people who just can't wait

The preview scale is mildly biased so I'm adding an option that'll make the filter output scaled properly so it visually appears the way the filter's been imagined. Although this feature may come in later!

I need to add options still... kinda sucks having a filter with 1 slider and 3 check boxes.

Well... I can always downgrade it by remaking it in FilterForge 3.0

At this point the base material's pretty much done and it's a relatively simple filter. Just the numbers have to be the same which shouldn't be hard to re-make

Been a while... so I was working behind the scenes... quietly just reconstructing the filter from scratch. My daily life is ... pretty awful already so it took me longer than I thought.

Either way I'll submit this to the library with final touches but I thought I'd first put it here anyway. We can make more adjustments to the filter too.

Current render times hang around 32 seconds without the anti aliasing and it looks perfectly fine without it.

Enjoy!

Painterly.ffxml

THANK YOU, Skybase! I will try it out and post one of the masterpieces it creates!

The queue apparently just updated last night so here it is finally: http://www.filterforge.com/filters/11275.html

I forgot one feature. So I upadated it but it'll be another day or 3 or 4 days before it appears.