Wishlist: Erosion, Directional Blur

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Oh yeah... forum post from April :o. I was never able to create the "same effect" and it might as well be done as a component than a filter.

Reason obviously is that erosion would actually be generic enough to look like a lot of things, from plant growth to rivers, mountains and beyond. The node can be more than just for terrains!

I'm hoping that Vlad has this covered with Bombers in v2...

Erosion can be based on gradient maps. Probably should stand alone as a single component. Probably shouldn't be even called "erosion" because if its generic enough, it can become pretty much anything.

Not only can it be rivers, lakes, mountains, but it can be textures of leaves, cracks in walls, a lot of the natural things can be simulated using just a generic thing. Sounds useful to have at least from my stand point.

Either way, the way erosion works in many programs is that you have gradient maps that determine starting points of the erosion or maps which control complexity of the erosion.

Put it this way, if you made an erosion specific FF node it'll look have connection points like this:

1. Amount (which can be connected with maps, Can determine starting points of the erosion here.)
2. Complexity (also maps)
3. Depth / Size
4. Profile (to shape the erosion looks?)

I wouldn't know, but there's enough application for such node. Can also significantly increase what we can make with just a bit of creativity.

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Skybase wrote: 1. Amount (which can be connected with maps, Can determine starting points of the erosion here.) 2. Complexity (also maps) 3. Depth / Size 4. Profile (to shape the erosion looks?)

I'd add another input for 'hardness'... which would tell it which areas to erode more and which areas to erode less. Could be either an absolute value or a map input.

Might also be cool to have a direction angle, maybe.

Here's what Vue7's erosion thing looks like. Note that it's basic bitmap terrains are pretty usually, like 512 to 2048-ish (beyond that it slows down a lot, and you're better going to the 'procedural mode) and always a power of two.
You can see that I've applied some wind erosion to the top of the mountain and Fluvial (little river-flow cracks) to, well, mostly everywhere.
You can also see, near my cursor, it's showing some alluvial erosion, which is pretty cool: it's taken a height-pixels from one spot up the mountain and piled it up at the bottom of the valley. Nifty!

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Morgantao wrote: Would love to see this in FF

You forgot to say something very important and essential for the request:

In WHICH VERSION would you love to see it ?

Because if you just say simply that you would love to see it in FF, it could be in FF 4.0, FF 7.0 or perhaps in FF 9.0.