Cicuit Board - Printed (WIP)

i'd say a blend component using blend modes would be a good way. and dont be afraid to crank up the opacity to 100%

as for components on a circuit board, the most common are capacitors, resistors and a few diodes and transistors, depending on the type of board actually, i just realized you have capacitors (the colored circles)

lookin good

Okay, the only way I figured out to get rid of overlap was to: offset u/d/l/r > multiblend > threshold > blend with other chips. It works great in theory and I can get rid of all the overlap, the problem is that it is a MASSIVE hit to render time. I had to add 20 offset, 6 multiblend, 6 threshold, 8 blend, and 2 switches (for v/h priority in clipping). Thats just way too much. Anyone have any other ideas or suggestions? I would really like to have this in, but a hit like that simply won't work. Also, is tiles a fairly slow component?

well, you could always post the filter here in the forums and let others take a look at it. hard to talk you to where you want without seeing the filter.

and yes, tiles is a bit slow, though not ponderously so.

This filter looks great. I look forward to it

It would probably be very hard for anyone to comment on how to break up that chip for you without seeing what you did to make it.

Rawn

you could also just go ahead and publish what you have and then submit an update when you figure some more out on it.

Eh, sorry I didn't upload it. I kind of figured it out, and I really want to make this usable before I stick it up, even if it still needs updated after. I think I pretty much have it ready for v1 except for some small fiddling and adding in/deciding on controls.

I ended up just feeding the tiles back into each other after a blur/threshold. It fixes everything but that one "L" pattern (which you can see in the picture). I added in LEDs too, though I am not satisfied that they add anything other than render time.

I'll look up "capacitors, resistors and a few diodes and transistors" (thanks BTW), and see how tough they will be to do. If they might take a while to figure out then I'll just polish up what I have and go ahead and submit a v1. Thanks for the feedback so far.

Yeah, I'll include switches to turn things off. I was thinking of just making it a simple filter, but I could change that. I already have the shadow stuff set up so making some changes for it shouldn't be a big deal, might add a bit more render time though, and this is already getting pretty slow.