UIUC85

7th October 2003 02:49 UTC

Digital Overload Preset
Tell me what you think.

S-uper_T-oast

7th October 2003 03:24 UTC

Nice use of your torus, I don't really like black and white presets though, so I think it could use some colors. I also think it is a little bit to spastic and flashy. You should learn to use dynamic movements/movements, instead of that crazy movement thing you have right now.

UIUC85

7th October 2003 04:25 UTC

I know how to use DM, but the torus is shaded so in order to keep the lighting correct I had to keep the movement within the superscope. As far as color goes, the shading effect doesn't really allow for multicolors in the torus very well. I could change the colors but then you wont even notice the shading at all which would defeat the purpose of the preset. You want me to make copy with color? See what it looks like?

shabaviz55

7th October 2003 05:00 UTC

For your first experience it is good.

Jaak

7th October 2003 05:29 UTC

UIUC85, you dont have to use shading and stuff for simple preses...

only use it when the scope is more important than the flow or background, oh yea, kill that Interferences

UIUC85

7th October 2003 07:56 UTC

lol the shading was the major deal with the preset.

Tuggummi

7th October 2003 08:25 UTC

So a techie eeh?
Couldn't care less about how über1337 the shading is.
And it really isn't fair to comment about the rest of the preset if all this is a 'demo' :igor:

But yes, the preset is crazy & flashy and the torus isn't very noticeable from the background effects.

You could do the classic 'black borders around a scope' trick. You do it like:

Your background stuff
Effect list (ignore / Subtractive)
Your scope
buffer save (save, replace)
a couple of blurs and a fast brite or convolution filter (recommended)
Buffer save (restore, addittive)

That should make the shading trick & the scope stand out more and the whole scope just stays clean from the background effects.

UIUC85

7th October 2003 08:33 UTC

Its already in there. take off the interference, check "clear every frame" in the effect list, take out the star fields and movements. I actually prefered it like that myself. Reminds me of cell shading. But there isn't much in there with just that so thats why I added the other crap. You can actually notice the diffuse shading that way too. I know I've seen other people do distance shading but I haven't seen anyone do shading.

UIUC85

7th October 2003 08:42 UTC

Here I cleaned that crap out.

Jaak

7th October 2003 13:22 UTC

now this is nice, shading fits perfect for this one.... but on last preset was shading pretty pointless

Deamon

7th October 2003 13:29 UTC

I like the second one better than the first one as well.

UIUC85

7th October 2003 16:30 UTC

lol thanks