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<\/a><\/p>\nIt is a really good piece. But I wanted some more variations so here we go.\u00a0I did this using FilterForge<\/a> 2 beta, but I realized I didn’t use any version 2 specific things doing this one so it can be done in FilterForge 1 as well.<\/p>\n First, we create about the same wood generator as we did the last time, but two different versions of the wood. I won’t go into to much detail on that stuff, only what was new and cool in this particular filter.<\/p>\n This is the wood generators, both of them. One with a smother lighter wood and one with a rougher darker wood as result. Now, we’re coming to the really cool stuff. I wanted my staircase to have a little perspective, not being absolutely orthographic as the one I’ve been using. I had no clue but I knew that it must be possible, and this is what I did.<\/p>\n First, I created a Profile Gradient<\/strong>, that goes from one shade of grey to another shade of grey, this is to create a slight slope.<\/p>\n Now, I feed this slope<\/em> into the Threshold <\/em>input of a Step<\/strong> component. As you can see, the area between white and blue is a little blurred, it is variable over time (or image).<\/p>\n Now I create another Profile Gradient<\/strong>, and you will soon see why this is one of the most versatile components in FilterForge. I connect one of the woods to the Color 1<\/em> input, and set the Color 2<\/em> to 100% transparent black.<\/p>\n Look at the result, it now got a fake perspective. Now I show you what else can be done with this technique. I feed the output into a similar configured Profile Gradient<\/strong>, where I first run the shaded grey through a Gamma <\/strong>component to darken it. Now I can cut out a piece in the middle.<\/p>\n This will be great railings, but they need drop shadow, so I do the same operation with a black color instead of the wood texture.<\/p>\n Now I blend these together using a Blend <\/strong>component, railing with shadows.<\/p>\n I use another Profile Gradient<\/strong> together with the other wood, to get stair step shadows, using the same wood texture blended with black as the darker part, then run this through the same shaper as I did with the railings, except that I do not cut out the center part. I also add a shadow here too.<\/p>\n And this is how the complete filter looks like, not that frightening at all, I’ve done much worse filters.<\/p>\n But how about the result?<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n