VladimirGolovin
08-22-2006, 02:20 PM
Hi everyone! I'm happy to announce that we have updated the beta of Filter Forge:
Filter Forge, Inc. has released the first major update to the beta version of its flagship software, Filter Forge (http://www.filterforge.com), a Photoshop plugin that allows users to create seamless procedural textures with bump, specular and normal maps in a visual node-based editor. The update fixes a number of problems, adds new features and significantly improves the rendering speed.
The focus of this update is speed. First, the bug that prevented Filter Forge from taking advantage of SSE2 optimizations is now fixed, which significantly improves the rendering speed on modern processors such as Intel Pentium 4, AMD Athlon 64 and AMD Opteron. Second, due to extensive optimizations of the component code and the infrastructure, Filter Forge's renderer is now considerably faster. Here are some numbers on the speed increase:
Comic Book effect (http://www.filterforge.com/filters/227.html) -- up to 360% faster
TRON 2029 texture (http://www.filterforge.com/filters/215.html) -- up to 180% faster
Organics texture (http://www.filterforge.com/filters/218.html) -- up to 110% faster
Peeling Paint effect (http://www.filterforge.com/filters/295.html) -- up to 135% faster
Crysta texture (http://www.filterforge.com/filters/235.html) -- up to 170% faster
New features include zoomable workspace in the Filter Editor (http://www.filterforge.com/upload/forum/fb3/pcards.jpg), unlimited number of filter controls and the ability to customize their order, smaller proxy previews for large images, the ability to create new images from scratch, four new blending modes for the Blend component, new components to extract minimum/maximum levels and average color from the source image, a new component for creating frame effects, new components to work with the CIE L*a*b* color model, and the ability to load and save PNG files. The full list of updates, additions and fixes: http://www.filterforge.com/more/news/966.html
About Filter Forge: first publicly released in May 2006, Filter Forge is a high-end plugin for Adobe® Photoshop® allowing computer artists to build their own filters -- seamless textures, visual effects, distortions, patterns, backgrounds, frames and more. The key features of Filter Forge include a visual filter editor and a free online library of user-created filters to which anyone can contribute. Filter Forge is currently in the public beta testing stage, the final version is planned for release this fall. Filter Forge is the flagship product of Filter Forge, Inc., a one-product company dedicated solely to making Filter Forge a premier product. For more information, visit http://www.filterforge.com
Filter Forge, Inc. has released the first major update to the beta version of its flagship software, Filter Forge (http://www.filterforge.com), a Photoshop plugin that allows users to create seamless procedural textures with bump, specular and normal maps in a visual node-based editor. The update fixes a number of problems, adds new features and significantly improves the rendering speed.
The focus of this update is speed. First, the bug that prevented Filter Forge from taking advantage of SSE2 optimizations is now fixed, which significantly improves the rendering speed on modern processors such as Intel Pentium 4, AMD Athlon 64 and AMD Opteron. Second, due to extensive optimizations of the component code and the infrastructure, Filter Forge's renderer is now considerably faster. Here are some numbers on the speed increase:
Comic Book effect (http://www.filterforge.com/filters/227.html) -- up to 360% faster
TRON 2029 texture (http://www.filterforge.com/filters/215.html) -- up to 180% faster
Organics texture (http://www.filterforge.com/filters/218.html) -- up to 110% faster
Peeling Paint effect (http://www.filterforge.com/filters/295.html) -- up to 135% faster
Crysta texture (http://www.filterforge.com/filters/235.html) -- up to 170% faster
New features include zoomable workspace in the Filter Editor (http://www.filterforge.com/upload/forum/fb3/pcards.jpg), unlimited number of filter controls and the ability to customize their order, smaller proxy previews for large images, the ability to create new images from scratch, four new blending modes for the Blend component, new components to extract minimum/maximum levels and average color from the source image, a new component for creating frame effects, new components to work with the CIE L*a*b* color model, and the ability to load and save PNG files. The full list of updates, additions and fixes: http://www.filterforge.com/more/news/966.html
About Filter Forge: first publicly released in May 2006, Filter Forge is a high-end plugin for Adobe® Photoshop® allowing computer artists to build their own filters -- seamless textures, visual effects, distortions, patterns, backgrounds, frames and more. The key features of Filter Forge include a visual filter editor and a free online library of user-created filters to which anyone can contribute. Filter Forge is currently in the public beta testing stage, the final version is planned for release this fall. Filter Forge is the flagship product of Filter Forge, Inc., a one-product company dedicated solely to making Filter Forge a premier product. For more information, visit http://www.filterforge.com