Procedural texture, logic functions

[NotMyFault]

Hi Affinity team,

can you please add logic functions that would allow to process if/select-clauses?

i currently try to simulate by + and *, but could lead to complex formulas and wrong results  

0 rated as false, all other values rated as true

* means any other value (except those listed above)

logic functions and, or, not should return only 0 or 1, normalizing all non-0 to 1

E.g. 

and(a,b) res

0 * 0

* 0 0

* * 1

or (a,b): res

0 0 0

* * 1

not (a) res

0 1

* 0

if (c,y,n) res

0 y n n

* y n y

Ifsign (c, n, z, p) res

C=0 z

c<0 n

c>0 p

Thank you in advance

[dmstraker]

I do a fair amount of Procedural Texture programming and handle conditional statements by such as first deriving 0-1 for true-false and then multiplying by the result for condition a then adding multiplying by inverse for condition b. For comparing numbers, I typically subtract and do a roundup (scaling numbers as needed).

eg (untested, so fingers crossed) a version of max(R,G) is:

var ifrg=roundup(R-G); //is zero if green greater than red else 1

var mxrg=ifrg*R+(1-ifrg)*G;

And yes, things get complex!

 

[NotMyFault]

23 minutes ago, dmstraker said:

I do a fair amount of Procedural Texture programming and handle conditional statements by such as first deriving 0-1 for true-false and then multiplying by the result for condition a then adding multiplying by inverse for condition b. For comparing numbers, I typically subtract and do a roundup (scaling numbers as needed).

eg (untested, so fingers crossed) a version of max(R,G) is:

var ifrg=roundup(R-G); //is zero if green greater than red else 1

var mxrg=ifrg*R+(1-ifrg)*G;

And yes, things get complex!

 

absolutely. Normally a+b can be used for "OR", but if you don't always normalize and have e.g. 1 + (-1) you get wrong results.

[dmstraker]

Ah yes. -ves of course.

Another gotcha is calcs done as real numbers. So what should be 0 could be just out. 

[spiderpod7d]

Hi Dave (dmstraker)

Are your Procedural Texture  macros cross platform compatible. I run on MAC and have had trouble with your macros in 1.9.1

I don't code but am really interested in getting your macros to work especially the Luminosity ones

I have attached a screen capture of what they look like. (missing sliders)

Thanks for any info

 

[dmstraker]

On 3/9/2021 at 8:27 PM, spiderpod7d said:

Hi Dave (dmstraker)

Are your Procedural Texture  macros cross platform compatible. I run on MAC and have had trouble with your macros in 1.9.1

I don't code but am really interested in getting your macros to work especially the Luminosity ones

I have attached a screen capture of what they look like. (missing sliders)

Thanks for any info

 

Looks like you can scroll down to other sliders -- see the scroll bar to the right of sliders visible.

[BeauRX]

There is a bug (afp-4203) in the current Mac1.9.x versions of the procedural texture dialog where the input controls are not displayed and you only see blank space.

Hoping this is fixed by end of 1.9.2 beta as I use Dave's (great) macros too, a significant enhancement to the attribute based selection of APh.

[spiderpod7d]

Thanks Beau for the heads up

 

I have downloaded the Beta 1.92 and will try it.

 

Thanks again