Abused Metal Plate by Crapadilla

Nice one! IMO, the background is too grainy, and I'd remove violets and greens from the presets. Also, I'm not sure about the name -- maybe 'worn' instead of 'abused'?

And the rendering speed needs improvement. Try to replace Worley noises (Noise > Stones and others) with Perlin Noise -- it's a lot faster.

"... and after some hours of extensive internal tweaking and rewiring, he finally submitted an update to the filter..."

Instead of abused how about...

http://rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi?Word...frhyme=rel

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jffe wrote: Less grainy, nice.

Yup. The grain is now constrained to dirty areas only, as it should be. Previously, the normal map was way too grainy overall.

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uberzev wrote: instead of abused how about...

I have settled for 'worn' for now...

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Bella wrote: Metal plate, you say... Is it another one to the collection of those made by angelboiii for Doom?

It's one specific KIND of metal plate that I found missing from the filter library.

Wait... was that a rhethorical question, sarcasm or a compliment?

Nice work on this one, very realistic

Here's the 'Perlin Edition'. Rendertime: 2 min 52 sec on a Dual Core P4 3,2 Ghz...

(VS 4 min 8 sec for the 'Worley Edition' on the same machine).

I think I'll leave this one as it is for now.

I'll do an extensive rendering comparison between a dozen or so photorealistic high-detail textures soon to derive some average render-times for these kinds of textures. An initial comparison with angelboiii's very high detail Yellow Rusty Wall Panel seems to indicate that my little 'Worley Edition' here isn't so slow after all. 7min 25s on my test machine (see above) for that one has me in a good mood.

We'll see what rendertimes we can expect in general from high-detail textures like these...

Thanks!

You've got some nice texturing work there yourself. I'm especially enjoying your talent for creative names. Looking forward to seeing that here too...

BTW, is it just me or does this filter run really slowly? I hope that's what's expected; it takes a long time for me to even preview it.

yup, it's a bit slow, but the detail is pretty incredible. the surfacing is actually pitted and i love the scratch lines. very nice work!

I seem to be using this filter everyday lately.....so some cudo's for this one.....very useful!!!

i think he removed the blends, jffe, and replaced them with something faster.

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Crapadilla wrote: Yup, I updated obsolete components, replaced all the profile gradients with blends (faster) and relocated the blurs to where they make better sense. Other than that everything stayed the same.

----Aren't assemble HSL components even faster than Blends for setting solid colors internally ? Seems like I read that around somewhere on the forums a while back. If not, my bad, I just though I remembered that is all.

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Crapadilla wrote: I'll keep the 'Repeat' functionality since I don't want to change the look of the filter. Alternatively you can use 'Size, pixels'; it works

----I saw it ('Repeat' control) was used to 'scale' the the noises some too, so if you did take it out, it would change the overall looks a bit I suppose. But I'm just being picky, this filter is way old and has been kicking butt for what 2 years now, so of course it's easier to speed it up now that we know more about FF and I should just shut up now ha-ha.

jffe

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jffe wrote: Aren't assemble HSL components even faster than Blends for setting solid colors internally ? Seems like I read that around somewhere on the forums a while back. If not, my bad, I just though I remembered that is all.

http://www.filterforge.com/wiki/index..._for_Speed?