Plasma Ball by ronviers

Really cool, your going to get the reputation as the man with balls

It's marble-tastic. Cool stuff, not sure I need a plasma ball, but I know where to go now if I do for sure.

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Excellent!!! This is REALLY cool, Ron.....I love this type of creativeness!!!

You're welcome, ronviers!!!

You could improve the electricity jaggedness by using some slight noise distortion.....or better yet, noise distortion on block or tech noise might do it.....but looks pretty cool the way you have it

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StevieJ wrote: You could improve the electricity jaggedness by using some slight noise distortion.....or better yet, noise distortion on block or tech noise

Thanks for the tip - can you give me an example of what you're talking about? Or maybe just describe it in a little more detail.

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Kraellin wrote: may be one i have to look at the guts

You won't need to look at this one Kraellin - the only cool thing about how I did it was using the height map to move the environment reflections so they do not obscure the plasma - most of the rest I learned from you. Thanks!

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Kraellin wrote: maybe i shld learn from me too

Yes - for sage advice go read your posts in the 'creating filters' forum - you will keep yourself busy indefinitely.
You can also open up a few of your filters to check out how original your approach is I think you will be very impressed.

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ronviers wrote: Thanks for the tip - can you give me an example of what you're talking about? Or maybe just describe it in a little more detail.

First, don't get me wrong.....it looks totally cool as-is.....just making some fun variant suggestions to play with.....

Swap the perlin with block noise (can try techno or pyramids as well) for some corners and jaggedness.....maybe a little stretch on it.....then run it through a little noise distortion for randomness.....then use Ubers radial gradient to eminate the electricity from the center.....

You could also use multiple noise components on a switch for different types of electricity......but might slow up the filter alot. I would suggest making variants just like your orb series.....even one putting the external image in it.......

Hey, you had me at "Orb" Jerry Megquire LOL.....

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ScienceMan wrote: I was browsing this topic and wanted to let you know that I found a pretty good source for plasma balls at www.coolstuffexpress.com - they have a few different models for sale.

Ain't nothin like the real thing baby.

more ball work - non square?

Nice work on figuring out the size control.....on both this one and the Orbs.....

I love the perty patterns, colors, and glass.....

I played with this filter to remove the black around the ball, and mounted the ball on a staff I rendered, a nice magic staff.

That is nice! Might be cool to animate the Intensity for a build-up effect. Could even add a glow.
Thanks

Here it is if you want can use it for something. I will do a better one when I get some more time.

Plasma Ball hdr.ffxml

Hey Ron Looks cool!!!

I would suggest, if you really want to go super-realistic with this, use ThreeDee's lightning and radial multiply it around a center ball.....it will be slow (depending on your machine), but worth the wait, IMO.....

Hey Ron,

I LIKE THAT ONE!!
Very COOL!

Have a GREAT day!

Ron

Here is a shot of the mud lightning - obviously with a little (and by a little I mean a lot) of tweaking, it could be made much better. Then, like Steve mentioned, it could be radially distributed for a plasma effect - tons more tweaking.