Pattern Play

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Groovy, man!!! I like them

Woooowser these are so cool Craig I really love the first render,

YOUZA!!! Looks like painted wood grain patterns!!

Kreallin ... WOW!

Kreallin I'm propably the wrong one to ask because I've been addicted to making backgrounds since 1998.

Uses for background filters. Sometimes people want a filter to generate backgrounds to make a backgrounds web site where they offer backgrounds for downloads.

Sometimes they like to store the backgrounds in their paint programs as instant 'fills'. ((I do this)). All of mine are of course organized to give credit to the filter artist, so that I know in the future to give credit.

Sometimes people use them to create other graphics with... or to use with scrapbooking.

Sometimes they are looking for just the right background to create their web site with.

Sometimes 3d artists need the background as material... as well as 2d artists.

Others will propably have more suggestions. (((I only have two HU's... one was a pattern and one was a frame... so ... not sure how much they are needed... I make backgrounds and patterns just because I like to... addicted to making them, always have been. Like I said, I'm propably the wrong one to ask, LOL.

Hope that helps~

here's another i just did that i like.

WOW!!! Just saw the new sample!

Luv it!!! Reminds me of peacock feathers!

Correction from last post.. I must be getting tired, LOL

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change your lighten

What I meant was...

Change your light settings...

Forgive me when I get tired... my posts are not so easy to read, LOL. I reread my last post and had to chuckle... getting sleepy~

Here is a screenshot of what I was saying about the lighting. When making patterns this area is very important.

Increase your lighting... and increase your surface height to fit each preset. On some filters this area is ignored, but on a pattern this area is key. Hope that helps~ Just my JMO~

Can't wait to see more samples~

ok, i paid close attention to the color wheel. yellow as the key color, violet as the complement and blue and red as the triads.

The last 2 samples look great Craig, it looks like you are learning how to change the patterns with colors and lighting. That is great
I agree with Jean on what she had said. I have pulled way to many all nighters just making seamless tiles and backgrounds before I have found FF. What I love about FF is that I can make a pattern, that would normally take me hours to achive in paint shop pro.

When I make my patterns, in FF I have an color wheel that I use to get the right color combination that I am seeking, plus I also may change the lighting to help out certains areas of the pattern. Most of the filters I make I use the surface, which gives the pattern more depths.

I also agree that making patterns is fun to make and very relaxing to make.
I need to start making other typres of filters beside patterns, to me that is an hard habbit to break lol
For uses for backgrounds Jean has covered most of the bases.
I know some people will take an backround of pattern and use it as an base to make a new pattern from it.
I use background to make matt pose files for poser, I use them as building block using layer upon layer to get the look I am wanting.
Don't forget gammers, they use alot of backgrounds and pattern.
I hope this makes sense to you, I just woke up and I haven't had my coffee yet

thanks, lynn

just expressing some doubts, i guess. and yes, playing with changing the pattern with color and light rather than shape tools, or at least more so than in the past.

i think it would be fascinating if FF had a button you could push and the patterns would alter continously as a sort of slideshow animation. set up a few parameters, or not, push the button, and watch your pattern alter over and over again in an animated manner based on any number of factors. hard to do, i suppose, especially given some of the render times, but nonetheless, an interesting idea.

ok, one more here, this time with orange and blue mostly. i also used a custom lighting environment i made for this one, called 'fire-1'.

Second sample

On the orginal one I was leaning toward the metalic look , where on the second one I was going more towards an feative look. The colors I used in the second one is blue, orange,green and purple the darkest colors, where in the first one I used the lighter side of the scale. I hope this helps you understand the key part what color and lighting can do for an pattern. Also these used the surface, I will upload them again so you can see what they look like using just the simple filer. The surface and simple make an big impact on your preset

Now same preset with the surface height set to Zero

This comes in handy if I'm working on a web project where I want the preset to be the embellishment but I need another area that holds text... and this way I know the two tiles will compliment each other perectly when using in the same project.

Lighting is not changed in these... just the surface height.

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jean, lynn, thanks.

i'm afraid this one isnt a matter of surface height or color arrangement. i've got to go back further in the layout and separate out the background and foreground more. i've pumped the surface height all the way up on this one and it basically does nothing. so, i may have the wrong component plugged into the height node. but, it may go back further than that. i did some tricks with those components back early in the routine that cross over here and there and i think that may be messing me up, since one leg is crossing over into the other and i end up with too little difference to give good height. i'll just have to work with it more.

yeah, i'm liking this a LOT more now. you can see both patterns and both have their own definitions. and, i believe i can set the depth even greater now by manipulating the colors.

sometimes you've just gotta get this stuff out of your own head and talk to someone, so, thanks, jean, lynn it's made the difference.

i know these wont be to everyone's tastes, but i'm getting what i was trying to get, so, well done, me!

more!

ok, let's leave at this one for now

thanks, jean

yeah, i'm much more pleased with it now. that's what i was trying to do, a sort of filigree pattern over a more solid. still a couple tweaks, but essentially it's working now.