Custom Font Bevel Reflect Version 1.00 - 1.06

[skinnyhouse]

Experimenting with loaded emaps to find the best results i.e. best highlights when applied to existing font faces.
Can't always tell just by looking.

This one seems useful...

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Gives this sort of result...

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[Issabella]

I see a great difference. Much brighter and beautiful look on the characters.
How do you do it? What exactly are the steps to apply the map? Thanks, Skinnyhouse.

[Krikor]

Hi Skinnyhouse,

Is there a limit to the Random emap option?

Krikor - Random Custom Fonts

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For the image above I made 9 emaps available in .xcf, and for the 18 letters contained in the sentence I would give 2 emaps per letter (18/2). But only 5 of the emaps were used by the plugin.

[skinnyhouse]

No limit in v. 1.4 but sadly limit of 5 in v. 1.3.

But looking good K.

[skinnyhouse]

Krikor:
Version 1.04 at the top of the thread to cater for all your random needs.

[Krikor]

Krikor:
Version 1.04 at the top of the thread to cater for all your random needs.

Skinnyhouse,

Version 1.4 ran fine.
My view was wrong, because being a random question there would not necessarily be an average between the number of emaps and the number of letters.
In fact, more than 5 emaps were generated this time, but some with 3 instances and others with only 1.

Krikor - Random Custom Fonts More than 5

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Thx!

[skinnyhouse]

Yes - using the random tools provided in Python does give, well, random results. The other options available I suppose are to use the emaps in order (or reversed order). I wasn't overly bothered about saving the emaps as the user supplies/loads them from the filter dialog. May have a proper look at this and see what a custom made solution can come up with to reduce the use of some emaps when others are randomly left unused in the final image.

[Issabella]

I tested your version 4 and it worked great for me too. No problem at all.
I used the random option for 5 BRL Maps.
I asked for information about the map you posted Black&White. How did you use it? Thanks, Skinnyhouse.

[skinnyhouse]

Working on it.

[skinnyhouse]

Ok sorted Issabella.

So I made a set of 7 emaps from this base image using the Map Object... filter set to make a sphere.

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I rotated the sphere about the axes in different directions on a transparent layer and packed the results all up into one file (below) to load as emaps in the filter.

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The results of using different highlight emaps can be seen here below with the base image as the first letter.

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My settings can be seen in the dialog: Basically I ramped everything up that I could. The downside is that that adds time to how long the filter takes to do its business. (Note: this image was made later and doesn't show the loaded emaps as it should do.)

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