CorvusCroax's Junkyard

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This one obviously doesn't work as well. The whole thing works on offset, and if the offset shape to be offset varies it doesn't line up quite so well. But, still you can see how it is working in most areas.

I haven't played much with V2, could you use your technique along with the "probability" input of a bomber and let you put down details (rivets/bolts) accurately inside the found corners without clipping them?

This would be a really awesome way to get dynamic bolt patterns.

oops duplicate post

007 Here's another one:
I'm using the hue values to drive the bomber direction. Note how the inside corners read differently than the inside ones. Same hue, different shade.

Thanks so much for posting the filter! It's really interesting to see what's going on in there Really great results out of it already.

Playing around with making a tank plate sort of filter. Looked at some naval ship technology and stuff like that and realized that the way a lot of modern technology is built is by having a frame and then with infill panels which are then bolted over top of that. This is a kind of experiment w/ that.

Playing around w/ color a bit:
Calling this one 'Soviet Space Station'

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ronjonnie wrote: Calling this one 'Soviet Space Station'

Looking good! Could be a little more 'metalish' and dented for my tastes though -- as if it were and old, heavily jury-rigged hulk of scrap metal held together with paint.

Playing around with pipes. Looks sufficiently techy. Have been trying to make a good 'plumbing' filter, but failing. Need a breakthrough. These pipes are OK, but need more rounded edges to be convincing.

(Also, am annoyed w/ how the new transform nodes break seamless-tiling. )

Here's a failed pipe-experiment. Trying to use the uber pipes method w/ the new Beta 2.0 environment.
Problems:
1) no branching
2) all kinds of alignment issues (the collars don't align correctly w/ corner bits
3) discontinuity in how pipes connect, and silly closed loops.

need a breakthrough aha moment.

Good morning Everyone,

Hey CorvusCroax,

YES! Coming along nicely! You can almost see the little space dudes waving.. It will look even better in color.

Have a GREAT day!

Ron

Hey guys, thanks for the encouragement!

angelboii: hey, that's a cool rendering. It looks better in displacement! It reminds me of the closeup shots from Outland, or the original BSG.

The soviet space station is really just a test of the bolt placement snippet: it's just tech noise, which is hit with high pass. That is then percentaged to find the 'panels'. Then the corner finding snippet finds then corners, and bolts are placed with a bomber.

The tech greeble is just F1 block noise and F2 block noise blened with difference, a little bit of tone mapping, and bombering down the tanks and vents. (It places the tanks in low points, and the vents in high points.)

Playing around with noise. Made some rocks. Using the splendid new rotate node to 'wrap' the texture around the height. Uses the noise from Uber's 'Brain Factory'.

I'm thinking this maybe needs some stalagmites and some directional mold.

stumbled across a clever technique doing the above filter. If you chain a minimum and a maximum together, using the same radius control, you can cull out details below a certain size. Check it out:

The height and mapping does look good on those stones.....

Playing around w/ my old stonehenge filter, updating to the new FF2.0 nodes. It's still too fussy, but can get some nice output out of it. Source images are my standard test patterns (see earlier in this thread).

Dunno, think I should develop this more? I think it's spiffy, but it's one of my least downloaded filters. Maybe the ppl over at the Cartographers Guild haven't found it yet

Hey Corvus,

This is a VERY COOL FILTER!
Yes, you should get the bugs out & submit!

WE WILL ALL BE LOOKING FORWARD TO IT!

Have a good evening!

Ron

the flat spots are usually a clipping in the height. try lowering any contrast you have.

02 Steelerizer
Observations:
-Not bad for a first try! It's fast, too!
-got some nasty plateaus going on. Also is flattening out at the bottom range.
-I think that i need to come up with a non-linear way to blend between the two 'materials'. It's hard to get it just right, and needs much more subtle gradations. Need to add some perlin noise to the distribution. In other words, I need to put a slider on a curve somehow.
-needs scratches.
-Edge wear would be good, too. Can do that w/ median. (yaay for median!)
-Put in an assembly to allow the rust to be either up or down.
-Also need to put in a thing which the rust into the edges. (highpass)
-Think I'll also put in a thing which will deposit rust on the top / bottom surface, like the rock thing above.