Examples of Spherical 3D Displacement Previewer by ThreeDee

And the same source

Extrusion 91 Texture Scale 45 Height Blur 3

I like the lighting is made on this one so that is not uniform and have the shadows on the outer borders.

And here is the same Brain Jelly same setting but

Invert Height desactivated in the checkbox

Extrusion 35 Texture Scale 85

You can see HOW MUCH difference the Invert Height can make in this filter and get very different results, I personally like more the inverted version than the normal non inverted one, although it depends for what you want it.

and you can have also a normal sphere

Extrusion 11 Texture Scale 53

Invert Height activated in the checkbox

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change the lighting!!!

Is this serious or a joke ?

If this is for real, It would be much better if you could tell me in which examples I should change the lighting and what is wrong so I can know it, because for me the lighting is right, not perfect, but do not see that could be wrong to change it.

I have to say that in all these examples there are 4 different lighting settings and NOT all are done with the same default lighting, I have moved and changed some lighting settings and also moved the lighting sources, and on two of them I added 3 more lights.

Also sometimes I have tried different lightings, but then after I had to go back to the first one as was the best one.

Also have made 3 presets for different lightings so I can use it

Thanks for the explanation and I can take any suggestions you could make and will be good and right with them and I am open and like possible suggestions BUT if you just and only say

change the lighting!!!

and you do not say that this is suggestion, and do not say why I should do that, and how should I do it and what could be changed and done better, it sounds like something strange. I thought why is he saying this ?

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Skybase wrote: What I mean is, you've uploaded 30 or 40 examples with same or similar lighting style and scheme. They're all awesome, but they're basically just textures on a sphere right now. And you have all this opportunity to have fun with lighting. Each material deserves its own scheme and mood to give it that "pop."

Please, how is your idea and suggestion to have fun with lighting ?

I am open to learn and try new things and experiment, but can´t do a thing that I do not know how to do it.

I agree with you if you say it (knowing that you are an expert on this topic) that using different lighting for each material could give a much better result and mood and make it "pop" and be shown in the best possible quality, but really do not know how to do that in Filter Forge.

As I may have the opportunity to do it, but if you do not know how to do it and what are the options availables I can´t do it.

As you have suggested it, Could you be so kind to cast a light on it an enlighten me?

Can you show some examples where is shown what you can get by changing the lighting?

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Do note I'm a lighting director too. I may sound extremely picky but that's my job and I can't help my pickiness extending to others haha.

Yes, you are a little bit picky (just a joke)

I did not know that you have also skills and good knowledge of lighting and glad you have learn to do it, I wanted to do it for making 3D and also for photography but know the basics about it.

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Though yeah, but the basics do go down to shading a sphere. It's actually a good practice tool. And even if you don't care about lighting, it helps overall photography and other graphics because you can see how light does its job on a simple object. And you know, I felt "Oh this guy's doing textures... why not lighting as well?"

I DO care about lighting and is very important and makes a big difference, BUT as said above I have limited knowledge about it, and only can do as far as I know.

I agree with you that it helps MUCH to get good and best results in photography and ia really VERY IMPORTANT and essential when doing 3D renders, and of course video.

Why do not do lighting ? Because I have still to learn how to do it right, as I know the basics of it.

Thanks for your suggestion and caring about how I do it

Thanks for your comments and recommendations Skybase
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Here is another example of a real metal sphere that has been scratched, gouged, holed and scarred thanks to the help of the realistic and very well done Gouged & Scarred by Carl

Preset 1 Extrusion 71 Texture Scale 100 height map blur 1

Source render maps made of 1200 x 1200

now all the same as above in previous example but changing the Extrusion to 22 and made with 6 lights

7 lights and the settings shown in the image

And what happens if you activate the Invert Height checkbox ?

Well there is no more holes and the scratches are now elevations

I like more the ones above than this spiky version

Here is the same version as above BUT I have made postwork in Photoshop, using Shadows and Highlights, Levels, Black And White adjustment layer AND the most important is that I have used MUCH of the Dodge Tools over all the lava to light it up and make it glow

I have kept the FF settings and only applied the effects to the sphere

And this is the Optimized in Photoshop version

What about some fresh and realistic orange thanks to Filter Forge and this Citrus by Moss?

Here is the source from the filter with Roundness 0 so there is no gradient shadow and it can be seen good seamless





And this is made with this filter and settings above, the text has been done in photoshop and loaded here as an image mask in my modified version of the filter.

It has only 1 light on top so there is shadow elsewhere to make it more realistic in some way

Thanks Skybase, glad you like it

I wanted to show it with a filter forge sticker on top instead, but all that you put over the orange will be ALSO extruded with this filter so I decided to make it this way instead.

Thanks Carl, glad you like the examples made with your very good filter and also the others.

cool examples, I like the magma spheres and the orange
you need to turn of Ambient Occlusion to get rid of the black shadows. you can render that out as a separate map and overlay it in photoshop.

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Is this a private party, or can anyone join?

Here's my example of a textured sphere.
It's the latest in my tries to make a european fan style cobble work. You can see the texture itself in my challange thread
I reduced the bump to about 10%, so it would look a little more realistic.

And then here is the full result of this tech crystal

and here is bigger in more detail so you can see it better

and bigger in more detail

It's a pancupcake
Or is it called a cupancake?