Rusty Chainlink by Mike Blackney

Rusty Chainlink by Mike Blackney
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/871.html

Noticed a minor problem with the normal map -- look at the regions inside the "cells", they should be flat:

http://www.filterforge.com/filters/871-normal.jpg

Thank you both so much If there's any qualifier, I could never imagine making textures like this with another procedural texture generator. (Or if I did, it would take twenty times as long. )

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Noticed a minor problem with the normal map -- look at the regions inside the "cells", they should be flat:

That's good to know - I was unsure whether the diffuse alpha map was enough for the empty sections of the texture. (It was enough for the display in FF and Photoshop, which was enough for me at the time )

I've made the adjustments so now all the maps (specular and metallic as well) have the alpha - and now these maps all look flat. Is that what I should have done, or should I just flatten the color for these maps? I'll wait to hear your word on this before I resubmit.

Congratulations Mike. Really cool. Amazing job.

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Mike Blackney wrote: I could never imagine making textures like this with another procedural texture generator. (Or if I did, it would take twenty times as long. )

I don't know how long did It take for you, but I can tell you I took some days when I created one chain link texture with another procedural texture generator. I can bet FF is a little easier. Well, at least for me.

Congratulations again and keep the amazing work.

Lucato

Great work

Mike, this is VERY cool! along with your barbwire filter these will be useful, (even though like Donna I tend to remove fences..

Sherry

If that's the case, why would Vladimir have said that the normal map should be flat in these areas? (Since the diffuse alpha was sufficient in the original version, I imagine that the normal maps can be whatever I originally pleased to leave them as.)

Fantastic filter - I use this a lot...

ae

great stuff.