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Rons Pixels and Particles (A Request)

JohnDelaquioxJohnDelaquiox Posts: 1,197
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I am trying to finish a few Sci-Fi Renders that require some pixlelation effects like derezing. I can't really seem to find any brushes that would work for what I am trying to do. I figure it might be something I could request on here, and I don't know anyone who is better than Ron when it comes to Brush Art.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,063

    What image editor are you using? Most have some kind of pixellation folter you could apply to a selection or the whole of a layer, I think - Photoshop certainly does.

  • ValandarValandar Posts: 1,417

    Another option would be to use the polygons of the target as the "pixels" - use the geometry editor to assign an irregular shape of polygons to a new material, with a cutout opacity of 0, and then select the border polys and a few others and make a light emitting surface from them.

  • JohnDelaquioxJohnDelaquiox Posts: 1,197

    I use photoshop.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,063

    Filter>Pixellate>Mosaic should work. The attached had the image duplicated (drag onto the new layer icon), a mask applied, and a white-to-black gradient applied to the mask. Then I ran Mosaic, at the default 8 pixels, on both layer iameg and layer mask.

    Pixellation.jpg
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  • JohnDelaquioxJohnDelaquiox Posts: 1,197

  • K T OngK T Ong Posts: 486

    Personally I'd actually very much rather Ron's items could be used inside Daz Studio where you could place them in your scene in the form of alpha sheets. That's how you could use Jepe's items, such as FlameZ, SpecialZ etc.

    Well, guess it's just me.

  • UthgardUthgard Posts: 878

    You can actually do that without too much work, just use the brushes to create a texture and the use said texture on a plane (even on the morphing planes that come in Jepe's products--you could even use the same settings for emission or whatever you need, just by plugging the maps in their channels). I know, a little effort is still effort, but sometimes it is worth it (or so said my mother when giving me chores).

  • K T OngK T Ong Posts: 486
    Uthgard said:

    You can actually do that without too much work, just use the brushes to create a texture and the use said texture on a plane (even on the morphing planes that come in Jepe's products--you could even use the same settings for emission or whatever you need, just by plugging the maps in their channels). I know, a little effort is still effort, but sometimes it is worth it (or so said my mother when giving me chores).

    It's not just a little effort, but a lot of effort. ;) I know because I've actually got Ron's Sci-fi Optical Flares. At first I thought they could be used the way I described i.e. placing them in your scenes in the form of alpha sheets, but when it turned out they couldn't -- and I very much preferred to use them that way -- I had to go through a lot of trouble to convert them, one by one, into .JPG format (the flares came in a format that's unfamiliar to me and hence took a lot of trouble to convert to .JPG because I don't have and don't use Adobe Photoshop -- I use Paint Shop Pro instead).

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