{"id":10623,"date":"2019-04-06T05:15:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T05:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=10623"},"modified":"2019-04-06T05:15:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T05:15:47","slug":"flaming-pear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2019\/04\/06\/flaming-pear\/","title":{"rendered":"Flaming Pear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve added a sidebar link to Flaming Pear, maker of Photoshop plugins, on this blog.<\/p>\n<p>Many science-fiction artists will remember using their LunarCell (moons and planets renderer) and Glitterato (star-field and nebula generator) plugins in Photoshop, and some may still do so. These plugins still work fine for making backdrops elements in landscapes, and I see that Flaming Pear have updated their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flamingpear.com\/flood-2.html\">Flood plugin<\/a> to Flood 2 in 64-bit. The interface is still a bit old-school, especially the clunky preset loading\/saving, but the scene-reflective water it makes is very good and highly adjustable. It could save days of render time on 3D reflective water for large landscapes.  &#8220;Now with improved 3D realism&#8221;, in Flood 2 &mdash; which seems to have been released late 2017?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/flamingflood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/flamingflood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"454\" height=\"324\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10624\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regrettably, when the picture has objects in the water at different distances from the camera, one has to make about for or five Flood 2 renders at different horizon heights.  Then one layers these in and blends them together with the aid of a mask.  It takes a bit of work and finessing, compared to just dropping in water onto a picture with a straight horizon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve added a sidebar link to Flaming Pear, maker of Photoshop plugins, on this blog. Many science-fiction artists will remember using their LunarCell (moons and planets renderer) and Glitterato (star-field and nebula generator) plugins in Photoshop, and some may still do so. These plugins still work fine for making backdrops elements in landscapes, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companion-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}