"Clean" Lighting

Desirable lighting example......

+2 All excellent ideas!!! Point source lighting would be really nice too.....3D environment.....but I've already begged for that in numerous strings.....

3D would be very interesting indeed, needs to be able to do more general GUI type stuff first though imo otherwise it would all be abstract shapes it made, im definately waiting for those and also the toolbox, would love to do some more GUI type stuff like some of the filters i have made but they were way more complex than they had to be imo, thats an area i think FF needs to work on when the mac versions done, mainly some more shape generators so that you don't have to have like 20 modules to make something that should just be it's own module which can be adjusted with sliders, and also seeing how the textures made dont always have to be seamless would be nice to have better positioning and rotation modules etc which also usually take loads of modules when they should just take 1 imo. And of course you guys already know what im after is the toolbox/grouping system and a way we can share custom modules on the forum, i think i will start using FF a whole lot more if that ever gets added, i find FF great already don't get me wrong but i think it has the potential to become more than just a texture maker and i think that would also expand the custommer market also. But i have already said most of that before hehe I guess im following the progress for now more than anything and i hope it takes the right path, im sure the mac port takes a huge amount of work, hopefully after that will come some of the stuff i suggested and also a SDK, as if that gets added i think the program will expand a huge amount as then it's not just a team but the whole community that can join in with new things. But yeah FF is an amazing app for sure and maybe this is the wrong topic but hopefully it will get read

I wanted to include several environments like these, but was unable to find suitable environments available for licensing.

I'm almost sure that these ones are not available for licensing to be bound with Filter Forge (or available only for ... well, very high prices). People who make money from selling copies to mass marked usually don't like one-time-payment redistribution deals unless the prices is around tens of thousands of euros As far as I know, it took a very long time, a lot of complex legal stuff and a good amount of money to license HDRIs that come bundled with FF from their owners even given the fact that they're bundled with about 1/8 of their original resolution and are specially encoded.

I wonder if I should get a decent camera from a friend, some metal balls and make some HDRIs myself along with making them available to forum people, since I also find the assortment of HDRIs in FF a bit ... limited. A good, physically correct renderer like Maxwell along with a good environment library might help also, but no chance I'm going to buy them myself

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James wrote: Maybe there could be a lighting editor where you build your own lighting setup just like you do with filters that would be cool IMO and also could make lots of new options available and maybe even it could have its own library available.

With all things considered.....something like this sounds like the best, issue-free idea.....kinda like an "HDRI Forge" sub-environment.....and maybe this lighting editor could construct HDRIs as components.....adding lighting controls to the filter controls which would be soooooooo much better in my opinion

One more thing....having the ability to include and exclude HDRIs and set lighting parameters would be soooooo sweet!!!

Exactly.....but I think the issue with this probably would be programming.....and if and/or how it would be integrated into the existing program......