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	ML Bevel Reflect has been updated to Version 2.0 CLICK HERE for information regarding the New Version 2.0 of the ML Bevel Reflect Plugin

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ML Bevel Reflect V1.0

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(SEE THE ATTACHMENT BELOW FOR UPDATED 32-bit WINDOWS VERSION -Courtesy of MareroQ, thank you!)

Attachment:

MLBevelReflect-win-32bit-Round v2.zip [176.69 KiB]
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New!!! 64-bit Windows binaries are now on page 10 in pogogo's post.

Edit. Extra stuff: new Blender made maps (see the attachment and examples at the bottom of this post)]



The only comment 'does not work' on plugin Registry might have scared people away
from giving it a try. This plugin deserves more than that because it's beautiful and
quite unique.

First off, it creates quite decent Normal Maps which is very useful for 3D application users.


Normal Map



But this is not everything this plugin is about. It uses these maps to wrap light probe image
around objects of your choice (text, shapes, etc)

Choose this option and select the light probe


Just a few examples demonstrating what MLBevelReflect can do








You're going to need so called 'light probe' images or HDRi probes, commonly used in 3D applications as the environment source of light
for 3D objects. You can find and download them from internet or make your own if you're a good photographer with
the right equipment or create them in 3D application (as I do).
To get you started I prepared some light probe maps from the images downloaded from Internet (see the attachment)
Also, here is download link to free hi-quality true HDRi's http://download.mcneel.com/s3/mcneel/br ... ler_bj.zip [Edit: hdr to png converted images are now on page 9]

When you make your own light probes, keep in mind that map resolution should be appropriate for the image you work on.
The bigger the image the bigger map you need and higher ppi value.
For HD resolution I'd recommend 1024x1024 with 300ppi light probes.

Cheers, enjoy and Happy New Year everyone!!!





New maps

Your examples are excellent K1TesseraEna.
I'll be checking this one out for sure.

They are all very beautiful and so different I love the shiny ones but I do see quite a lot of pixilation around the edges, can that be fixed with a small blur?

Maybe that might work, too bad cuz they are so nice

@K1TesseraEna

Cool examples
I don't understand if the images to use as probe should be already mapped to a sphere or equirectangular,
which of the 2 ?

It looks pretty cool. So, it basically remaps the sphere (L-Probe) to other elements in GiMP?

The download link to "free hi-quality true HDRi's" doesn't work for me.

Tried to compile this but so far no success... keeps giving errors.

Aha - success!

Note to others: you have to add this line to the source in order for it to compile properly with GCC:



Add it below the other #includes. After that it compiled just fine. I guess some windows compilers automatically include some macros that are in that header, but GCC needs it to be included explicitly. Now to see if the plugin works...

(yep, it works. )

No prob. It's a nice plugin, the lack of antialiasing is a bit of a bummer though... maybe this would work better with oversampling - enlarge the heightmap to 2-3x, run the plugin, then shrink back down...

Yay, it works!

Ok, here's something that will probably help Linux users - I took the edited source file and added in a Makefile, to make installing the plugin easier. Should work with make install (requires su/sudo), or make userinstall (no su required).

Got it compiled with gimptool (yes, it needed that #include <stdlib.h>).

However, a bit of caution: if your image is not valid, no black spots for beveling for example, the plugin goes to loop forever... I.e. hangs.

Otherwise, seems to work.

Very nice guys