The Orange Head

More importantly, I have updates to two submitted filters, one of them my own, the other not.

This is an update to my 3d landscape filter (which I might actually submit!). Previously, I had improved the clouds by adding an additional darker shade in the dense centers of the clouds. Now, I have changed the clouds completely. They now have 3 colors (two have controls, the middle one a blend of the two), and different controls (fuzziness and cloud cover). Since this allows for more stormy skies, I thought it would be nice to add some rain, courtesy of Lucato from Landscape LR.

Maybe submitting an update for the landscape won't get my filter count off of 69 , but this one might. I'm not really sure how useful this might be as a flat texture, but I was proud of myself for figuring it out.

Take ThreeDee's Metaballs (no not meatballs ). When two metaballs are in close proximity, they get attracted to each other and often partially meld together. But what if the metaballs repelled each other instead of attracting each other? What if you could control the strength of this "metaforce"? Well, that's pretty much what I've done. The one flaw with this is that the size of the metaballs can change a little when changing the metaforce, but the effect is all there.

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Indigo Ray wrote: my own shoreline

like that ......... are you able to put in a second foam line as if it was the surf wave

(see metaballs ↑)

Metaballs V2.0.ffxml

They look like the carpet from my highschool Now is it just me or is the directionality a bit weird?

Thanks all. This next pic should satisfy your complaints. The funny thing about this filter is, when I added a blur at the end, I no longer needed AA. This sped up the rendering time 4x!!! Who woulda thought...

As a surface filter...

I don't know about those tight stretched waves, those aren't realistic. I would also suggest turning up some details.

On the contrary, I don't think the carpet looks better. The noise is good, but you lost great detail with the blur. Albeit the speed-up, which is great, I think it should be placed further back in the filter tree, and get some of the actual carpet back.

Thanks all for the input.

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Betis wrote: I don't think the carpet looks better

I happen to like them both. The first has more detail, but the second looks more soft, which is good for carpets. I tried moving the blur back, but no matter where else I put it, the results weren't that great. The blur amount can be adjusted, but it seems that there is no true middle ground between AA and blur.

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Kraellin wrote: is it possible to do the water effect without the background effect?

I already have examples of that, with the life saver and as mods of other filters. Because I have several versions of water filters, I might eventually submit one. I'm not sure if I want to "give up" the carpet just yet.

How about this oily one: Larger "small" waves, less frequent "thin" waves, and subtle spectra.

oily water... hmmm, now that's a challenge. i like how you've got the red/green/blue oily film on this. interesting idea, using your caustics for this. i may have to study this stuff yet

I've gotta hand it to FF; This watercolor filter makes way more realistic paintings than I do by hand.

I like it, the only thing on the town one is the orange edge on the roofs is a little to harsh, a better build up blend over the entire roofs would give it a more natural look

very freakin cool on the underwater one!

Thanks! Not sure what to do with the surface yet, I put that one there just to have one.

I've also been working on a charcoal filter. It's simple in design, but I haven't seen one quite like this in the library.

yes, i'd say it's promising. 'chalk' and 'charcoal' have been attempted several times in filters (including my own) and i havent seen one yet that truly does them justice (including my own ). so, good luck

eye for comparison (same filter innards):

Yes, they are nice.

Could I get the original picture of that eye so I can study it in hopes of improving my EyeCraft filter?

Well folks, charcoal V1 (with the streaks) has gone through an update which excludes lots of unwanted noise. Honestly, this looks just as "pencil" as it does "charcoal".

And this

Are you getting the whole image on that one, 'cause to me the bottom is cut off. Well, you get the idea. Let's try this pattern pic (using a high-contrast large-scale perlin and a kaleidoscope):

Very nice carpet you got there, Indigo!