VG Marble Tutorial

If at some point you read this .... could use a little help.

Progressing through but now stuck on page 11 section 4.4.

Cannot figure how to "drop or attach" the Mask On layer to the Edge Highlight layer.

Do you have a link to this tutorial?

Do you have a link to this tutorial?

https://www.deviantart.com/velvet--glove/art/Ultra-Fractal-Marble-Tutorial-68665424

I'm stuck on page 11 at section 4.4

Thanks

Hi Dannac, i don't know all the tutorial but reading the point 4.4 seems that you must create a mask, to do this you must have two layers, one is the mask and one is the layer that is masked, to attach the two layers in the Fractal properties(where are the layers) in the right the second icon from the botton is USE AS A MASK (shift+alt+k clicking on the mask layer) and the layer above will be masked from the layer under, i have done a quick example, using pixel a polar curve for a rose and a sfbm backgroud, as you can see the mask allow to show the backgroud layer but the SFBM backgroud doens't affect the rose.
For sure you must play with the point of control of the gradient in the opacity of the mask. Try to open the gradient of the mask and play with control points to look what happen, it's more simple to see it that explain it.
Ciao

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Hi Dannac,

I'm sorry about the poor use of the phrase "drop onto" in my tutorial - my bad, it is confusing.

I think this terminology stems from already having a mask layer somewhere, duplicating it (i.e. the duplicate is already functioning as a mask) then dragging/dropping that duplicate mask onto another layer where it will automatically attach.

OK. It sounds as though you have your highlight ring ready to go. Just make a copy of your marble layer and place that layer just below your highlight layer. Now you can either right-click this copy and choose "Use as mask" -or- hit the "Use as mask" button on the right, second from the bottom. This will apply the mask to the highlight layer.

If you have moved your highlight ring so that it partially goes over the edge of your original sphere as described in the tutorial then applying the mask will serve to enable that highlight effect on the edge of your sphere and remove the rest of the ring around the outside:

I hope this helps.

Hi Dannac, i don't know all the tutorial but reading the point 4.4 seems that you must create a mask, to do this you must have two layers, one is the mask and one is the layer that is masked, to attach the two layers in the Fractal properties(where are the layers) in the right the second icon from the botton is USE AS A MASK (shift+alt+k clicking on the mask layer) and the layer above will be masked from the layer under, i have done a quick example, using pixel a polar curve for a rose and a sfbm backgroud, as you can see the mask allow to show the backgroud layer but the SFBM backgroud doens't affect the rose.
For sure you must play with the point of control of the gradient in the opacity of the mask. Try to open the gradient of the mask and play with control points to look what happen, it's more simple to see it that explain it.
Ciao

Kept your background and added the other 2 layers to come up with something similar but different.

Thanks for the info .... it will helpful. Especially the tip of adjusting the gradient.

So much to this program. I'm amazed at what it does.

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Hi Dannac,

I'm sorry about the poor use of the phrase "drop onto" in my tutorial - my bad, it is confusing.

I think this terminology stems from already having a mask layer somewhere, duplicating it (i.e. the duplicate is already functioning as a mask) then dragging/dropping that duplicate mask onto another layer where it will automatically attach.

OK. It sounds as though you have your highlight ring ready to go. Just make a copy of your marble layer and place that layer just below your highlight layer. Now you can either right-click this copy and choose "Use as mask" -or- hit the "Use as mask" button on the right, second from the bottom. This will apply the mask to the highlight layer.

If you have moved your highlight ring so that it partially goes over the edge of your original sphere as described in the tutorial then applying the mask will serve to enable that highlight effect on the edge of your sphere and remove the rest of the ring around the outside:

I hope this helps.

Thanks for the reply Chris ... my inexperience is the problem.

I'll re-visit that tutorial when I get the chance.