Landscape by byRo

Rô, congratulations for yor new amazing Landscape texture. Really cool! For the Landscape 2 you could use Switch to make desert, farm, marte, moon, and so on by using hue/saturation and also for sky sunny, cloudy, day, night.

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Actually I was thinking of this more as a challenge to all. I think that this could be fun, and I'd really like to see what others can come up with. I know we won't be making a "Terragen".......well maybe, who knows? Nice ideas, feel free to build on the filter

- Nice idea, let's play that. Thanks for allowing It. If I submit some stuff I'll let you know and give the credits for the base. Maybe I will add those I've mentioned above.

lucato,

are those images from a variation you did of Ro's landscape filter and if so, would you post a copy of your filter?

nicely done, by the way

craig

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are those images from a variation you did of Ro's landscape filter and if so, would you post a copy of your filter?

Yup, as I said above, I've added some controls as rain, sun, moon, sky and clouds colors and more land variations. Hey Craig, here goes the file:



LandscapeLR.ffxml

'Landscape by byRo, who really likes to see what others can come up with' = correct.

"Landscape by them, who really like to see what others can come up with." = correct.

"Landscapaes by you, who really likes to see what others can come up with." = correct, if 'you' is singular. when 'you' is plural, then 'like' would be correct.

"Landscapes by them, who really like to see what others can come up with." = correct.

"Landscapes by you, who really likes to see what others can come up with." = correct. (same exception applies here as in the third example).

and thank you for posting that filter, lucato

craig

byRo, Lucato -- I think you can submit these revisions (Landscape LR) as updates. I guess the updates should be submitted on behalf of byRo who is the original author.

A side note -- I would like the Filter Library to have no fixed ownership of filters (like Wikipedia) but in this case we may have conflicts over the free copy and other awards between the contributors.

lucato,
i did look at the filter. nice additions. as for my version, it'll have to wait. i've got about 6 different filters i'm working on currently.

as to the etiquette of using someone else's filter to make your own, i agree with quasimondo. you dont want to be inhibitited in using part or all in your own, but you also want to be credited when someone uses yours. turnabout is fair play, as they say.

for really small changes, like i did with one of Ro's, i simply posted that version here in the forum. with something like lucato's re-working of the landscape filter, that's a bit more than a 'small change'. he added a lot. so, i wouldnt have any problem with lucato submitting this as 'Ro's Landscape by Lucato' or something of that nature.... unless Ro objected. hehe, it can get ugly, cant it.

none of us (the beta testers) have any legal rights to the filters we submit. we all hit that 'accept' button to the end user license agreement when we submit, so i suppose it really falls to vladimir and company as to how they want to handle this.

craig

It isn't the case now, but just came an idea to my mind. Maybe in the future FF programmers would add in the preferences a checkbox like that:

Effect/Textures authoring [ X ] Do not allow editing.

So, if you save your texture/effect with that, nobody can edit, see the structure or even change the author and so on. But can use the settings tab to use the filter of course.

So, you will need to keep two versions of your texture (protect/unprotect) or it would recognize that it is your computer or to not have 2 version of the same file, would have a password to get to edit.

I need some rest. It's too late.

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Lucato wrote: Effect/Textures authoring [ X ] Do not allow editing.

I don't think that will work because the ffxml file format can be edited with any text editor you can either remove that tag or copy parts of the filter to a new file.

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byRo wrote: There will come a point at which the distinction between shared knowledge and copied filters gets a bit fuzzy.

Yes, I see it the same way. Basic techniques that we currently "discover" will be common knowledge after a while, so it's futile to have add a "circle by ...", "tiling by ..." to every filter that uses those building blocks. But I also think that the community will sort that out.