Simviation Forum - Second try: Much better Heat Blur!

	Search the archive:

Simviation Main Site | Site Search | Upload Images

Simviation Forum › Graphic Gallery › Edited Screenshots › Second try: Much better Heat Blur!

(Moderators: Mitch., Fly2e, ozzy72, beaky, Clipper, JBaymore, Bob70, BigTruck)

‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›

Pages: 1

Second try: Much better Heat Blur! (Read 162 times)

Mar 27^th, 2007 at 8:01pm

Isak922 Offline
Colonel
Consider yourself badgered!!!
Connecticut

Gender:
Posts: 1528

First off, Thanks to Cloud9flyer for showing me a much better tutorial Grin

Original:

First Edit (Attempt): Followed tutorial exactly as shown.

Second Edit (Attempt): Played with the Ocean Ripple magnitude setting to create a more three dimensional look to the blur...

Second Edit (Attempt) Take 2: Decided that the Ripple in the above shot was a tad too much, so I dumbed it down a bit with the blur tool. Otherwise, exactly the same.

Here are the un-compressed 800x600 shots (Taken in 1152x864 then resized to 800x600), as well as the real aircraft/picture I tried to use as a model.

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i32/Isak922/FS9/aero.jpg
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i32/Isak922/FS9/Isak922F-15HeatblurOrig.jpg
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i32/Isak922/FS9/Isak922F-15HeatblurEdit1.jpg
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i32/Isak922/FS9/Isak922F-15HeatblurEdit2.jpg
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i32/Isak922/FS9/Isak922F-15HeatblurEdit3.jpg

Comments, Criticisms, Flames, All welcome Grin

4GB DDR2 PC5300; 3.2GHz Pentium D 940, Nvidia 9800GT 1024MB DDR3, Windows XP Pro SP3

IP Logged

Reply #1 - Mar 27^th, 2007 at 9:16pm

FSGT Gabe Offline
Colonel
Member of StudioV Gallery
Board
Home airport: CYOO

Gender:
Posts: 1597

Not bad, but I would suggest making it even a bit less obvious. Have a look here at these two of mine:

I think that you've got the ocean ripple pretty well, but I'd suggest adding some gaussian blur after you do the ripple just to soften it a little...makes it look better. Then use the blur tool with a hardness of about 20-30 and go over the edges so they don't stop so suddenly...you want them to blend with the environment.

Hope that helps Wink

.

- Kevin Cheesy

Studio V - Your destination for all your screenshot needs...

Windows Vista Premium Edition - Pentium® D Processor 820 Dual Core @ 2.8 GHz, 2 GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM, 250 GB HD w/ DataBurst Cache, 256 MB ATI Radeon X1300 Pro, 19 inch E197FP Analog Flat Panel, Saitek X45 Joystick

IP Logged

Reply #2 - Mar 27^th, 2007 at 9:22pm

cloud9 Offline
Colonel
"Ski the Cold Smoke" Bridger
Bowl
CRAZY!!!! :D

Gender:
Posts: 1711

Sgt. Gabe IMO thats still to much but that's the creators choice. Tongue

Isak, that first attempt is beautiful with maybe a little less guasian blur. Also try and flatten it out to make it look like it just took off (if you want i can do another pic like the other thread). That's my only critisism Grin

My system
: Antec 900 : Intel Q6600 OC'd 3.0 GHz : 680i : 512 MB Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS : 4 GB 800MHz DDR2 : 250 GB HD : OCZ 600W : Vista x64 : Thermaltake 120 :

IP Logged

Pages: 1

‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›

« Home

‹ Board

Top of this page