Mortex Spacehull WIP

So, I took Mortex (by Morphed) and pimped it out a little bit to make it look more like a spaceship hull or a city or something. Added some windows (for scale) and a few other techy touches, like small detail lines. Made a separate culling pass for the windows so they appear semi-asymmetric. Added a switch for multiple noise modes, so Techno and Pyramids is in there in addition to Blocks noise. Also added some options for profiles, so you can do curves.

Would like to improve:
1) I'd like to add a secondary layer of fine detail, with pipes and other such greeble within the major 'chunks'. (If anyone knows of a good way to make pipes, let me know.
2) Would also like to add a way to make render out a 'lights' channel for use in 3d programs. (Using specular exponent doesn't work well enough.)
3) Would like to add a control to change change between Horizontal symmetry, and the other Kaleidoscope modes.
4) Need to add a control to limit the 'roughness' and to make sure that it's applied more uniformly (Problems w/ high and low end of bump scale.)

Yet another:

Note on #1 and #3 how the windows are quasi-symmetrical: they sort of follow the pattern, but not quite. There are also controls for how 'high' on the structure the windows appear, and how many repetitions. There are also x and y offset controls for the noise, so you can tweak them into new configurations.

So, here's what you can do with this sort of texture in, say a 3d program with displacement. Note that the texture used is the default Mortex preset. These items objects are primitives: ie your basic spheres, cylinders, boxes. ALL the shape comes from the texture. (the three in the lower right are exceptions: they are letters.)

Here's a detail for the ship in the image above, but zoomed in a bit and under different lighting. Note the use of texture #1. The underlying geometry here is a capsule, having about ~100 polys. (hoses and antennae I added.) Look at all that groovy detail!

Love that one!

Yeah, this one is really good.....

That second one looks like a background for a side scrolling space shooter..

Cool stuff Corvus!

Cool, love the sci-fi textures and space ships! And dinky models

Try googling 'space fleet'. BTW, Space Fleet is/was a table-top board game published by Games Workshop...

Please submit this filter, it would be ever so useful and I would insure it went HU single handedly

This is what I thought of when I saw preset #2

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Ah, now I know what the image reminded me of: it's the look of hand painted Space Fleet miniatures!

Yeah, that's the sort of thing I was going for, but less organic - looking. More massive - looking; Like a painting by Sparth or John Harris.

Are you a tabletop gamer 'dilla?

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Crapadilla wrote: I used tp play lots of Games Workshop (and other) tabletop games back in the days... like Space Fleet, Space Hulk, Blood Bowl, Advanced Hero Quest, etc. I was also an avid tabletop-miniature-collector and -painter. We even had a Blood Bowl league going for several years... Smile

I had a friend who was into painting the Warhammer Figures........
Spending weeks sometimes months on just one model....

Here are some of the presets.

1726

1728

1733

1735

1737

1739

Some more render tests:

Even More:

Ok last one: