TF Filter Foundry

OK, it took me a while to figure out Blender's material effects but I managed to get a good demo of the normal maps. Colored lights used for contrast.

Hi, Great filter!

However, when I looked at it I interpreted it as 2 wheels and speed... smile8)

like this...

I'm giving up...the image just doesn't want to upload ...

Thanks. That's an interesting interpretation of it, but looking at the image it does work.

Then again UV Maps are confusing. I had a good long period of like ten years messing with skins for video games before I really understood how to do them or lay them out.

(hint: I still have no idea what I'm doing. Late bloomer in this hobby.)

The biggest help has been trying to do leather work as the seam/layout logic is kind of similar. Even then they don't always look like what they turn out to be.

Oh, question... There's some minor language on these next images, nothing major but is it alright to keep them? I can replace the textures if it's a problem.

Also copyrighted test images from real products. I can replace them with ersatz versions as well.

I actually got a nice looking render with a few other people's filters standing in for walls/surfaces. This is a later unreleased version I'm thinking of uploading soon. It's slower with the label set to render, but then again I'm learning this more or less as I go along. It took me since V3 to actually learn how to make real filters anyway...

(this version is notable because the only alterations are an in-photoshop overlay of logo/label colors onto the normal diffuse or combo map I have removed an entire step almost...)

I export the main image, the generated normal, and the specular map, then load them in blender. Then in blender I set more than one texture up in the material I apply to my model, making sure none of the effects are affecting what they are not supposed to.

There is an "Influence" menu where you set what elements of the material are affected by the textures, and for instance you set the normal map to affect the model's normals but not the colors, the specular to affect the specularity, reflections, etc.

There's also a setting that tells blender to load the channels of a normal map properly.

Aside from that they are simply UVmapped onto the model.

I have since gotten other filters into that game and can use it to demonstrate how well the effect maps work for my and other people's filters. Thinking if it's possible of switching this thread's format into general construction/display stuff.

A later, but not quite right version. A bit edgier and more reminiscent of a heart monitor or oscilloscope.

's Abstract Cup type 4.ffxml

Does one thing, but only does that with no real options unless you feel like digging.
May revisit this later and add options for a proper release. For now it just does what it does. ("and only that.")

drinklid.ffxml

Pretty much just styrofoam as seen in instant noodle cups. That and only that.


Instant Lunch.ffxml

Wow! I like very much the last spaghetti filter, cool and well done, love the very complex and tangled texture made, great

I've been messing with filters again lately and have decided to play around more with some of the actually efficient functions and methods I've seen in other people's filters.

This is from a layered stone/agate type surface filter I am working on that reminds me of manufactured counter-tops.

My guess is you want to keep it pixelized at higher resolution so... I've added a 100x100 pixelizer. If you want more than a 100x100 pixelizer, it can be done by adding more bomber+ components. In FF11.

DOOM Metal pixelate.ffxml