Ubuntu Solid

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

Still trying to get the satin effect to work to a point I'm happy with it but getting a bit frustrated so decided to create a new wallpaper.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Those are such beautiful colors nice job. also very good font for unbuntu.

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

molly wrote:

Those are such beautiful colors nice job. also very good font for unbuntu.

Thanks, they are the offical colours and font.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

They look like they are carved from a cement block.

AnMal · **Posted:** Mon Mar 04, 2013 5:06 pm **(#5)**

he4rty: that's lovely! the background is just perfect, like thick coloured fog. i'm glad to hear these are the official colours, it makes me happy when pink is taken seriously.

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

AnMal wrote:

he4rty: that's lovely! the background is just perfect, like thick coloured fog. i'm glad to hear these are the official colours, it makes me happy when pink is taken seriously.

Hate to burst your bubble but its actually purple. :hehe

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

wow he4rty! That's very solid 3D effect. I remember your experimentation with multi-replicate script. Is that it or some other script? Although, knowing your technical/math background, I wouldn't be surprised if you did it all perfectly by hand!

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

K1TesseraEna wrote:

wow he4rty! That's very solid 3D effect. I remember your experimentation with multi-replicate script. Is that it or some other script? Although, knowing your technical/math background, I wouldn't be surprised if you did it all perfectly by hand!

It was done with fencepost 3d text script.

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

ah yeah, recalling his tutorial now but never used his script

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

I thought I had all Fencepost scripts, I can't remember a 3D one.

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

molly wrote:

I thought I had all Fencepost scripts, I can't remember a 3D one.

You've definitely played with it, see here

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2769

very nice he4rty !

how did you get the colors to blend so well ?
is it a gradient ?

the 3D effect is great as well, i have to do something like this some time, too

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

Esper wrote:

very nice he4rty !

how did you get the colors to blend so well ?
is it a gradient ?

the 3D effect is great as well, i have to do something like this some time, too

The base layer is a vertical white to black gradient, the text started as grey 808080, then ran through the 3d script, used selective Gaussian blur just to smooth it out a bit and set layer mode to screen. The shadow is the perspective shadow filter which I had to crop the text out off, then I created above all the other layers a orange to purple diagonal gradient that I set layer mode to colour and finally created a grey fog layer on top set to grain merge I think.

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

he4rty wrote:

molly wrote:

I thought I had all Fencepost scripts, I can't remember a 3D one.

You've definitely played with it, see here

Followed your link and discovered a nice work of yours - Ubuntu stamp. How odd, around that time I was working on same thing in Blender, only difference mine is an iron brand. :hehe

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

he4rty wrote:

molly wrote:

I thought I had all Fencepost scripts, I can't remember a 3D one.

You've definitely played with it, see here

okay, I know I do have this script but I was looking under Fenceposts scripts cuz I said I didn't know he made one. This one here is by "Frans Rijven"

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

molly wrote:

he4rty wrote:

molly wrote:

I thought I had all Fencepost scripts, I can't remember a 3D one.

You've definitely played with it, see here

okay, I know I do have this script but I was looking under Fenceposts scripts cuz I said I didn't know he made one. This one here is by "Frans Rijven"

O.k unless it was based on the tutorial I have read by fencepost which just made me assume it was his script.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Yes, he has written so many good ones, I was wondering how I missed that one. He has been missing now for at least a couple of years so he must be busy with his band.

YAFU · **Joined:** Nov 09, 2011 **Posts:** 726

Very nice wallpaper! The color combinations and texture looks very well.

AnMal · **Posted:** Tue Mar 05, 2013 12:39 am **(#19)**

he4rty: purple?! oh blast, i never get to keep my beautiful bubbles...
i can't believe you gave us the full story of that background, brother, i'm off to try it myself and see if i can get the same look.

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

Thanks for the comments, had a play some more, mainly because if I get in the right frame of mind I'll make a tutorial on the effect. I wanted to cover making the text whitish and also how to fill with a texture but still having a nice design.