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Vinz asked "how you animated the parameters in tut 32"

well...

The comments like this are the settings for the actions

/// Cycles:CosineCurve:44:1:24:1:240:0.3:1:1.7
/// Power:SineCurve:43:1:6:20:220:0.3:1:1.7
/// RotAngle:OutInBack:36:0:360:40:200:0.3:1:1.7

"///" = parser flag so we can find and recognize them

the items on each line are used as follows...

[Var Name]:[Ease Name]:[Ease Type]:[start frame]:[end frame]:[begin parm value]:[end parm value]:[period]:[amplitude]:[overshoot]

yes yes a lot of silly things to remember but fortunately there's a nice little GUI for all that

1> load tutorial 32
2> Select the "Mandelbulb" tab
3> Select the "Power" slider
4> Push "F7" key (or menu item "Edit->Add Easing Curve")
5> Change some settings
     (a little math to figure out frame start finish numbers, I'll fix that to a start/fin slider or something)
6> hit OK that's it, voila!

Frames before start frame will use start value until start frame is reached.
Frames after finish frame will use finish value until end of animation is reached.
These become active when the animation is playing.

When you do this on a var that already has a curve you will be prompted "Apply" "Discard" "Cancel"

"Apply" will change these settings for this var (liked it so set it)
"Discard" will delete the settings for this var (clean up so no animating)
"Cancel" does nothing

This only saves internally the changes!!! if you like the result then...

1> you need to save params file or
2> add a new preset with a new name and save the GLSL script or
3> render a highres or anim to create "<name>png Files"
     this  folder will have all of your var morph settings in a single default preset but no campath keyframes
     as they can be cut and pasted if needed

camera path KeyFrame presets are only saved to a file when you save the GLSL script you create  them in.
param morph settings should all be in one named (not keyframe) preset.

Its not terribly complicated :O and once you play with it for a while I'm sure you will figure it out have fun

Disclaimer: Most of the code I've added to Fragmentarium was just hacking proof of concept, I know it needs a lot of adjusting and tweaking but that will come with input from users and hopefully contributions from other coders.

I found a nifty Qt (nokia code) range slider widget that I would like to use for setting frame-in and frame-out and it works great but... there's always a but...
it compiles and works perfectly on linux under Qt 4.8 but chokes and won't compile on windows under Qt 5.1, the problem is that in 5.1 QIcon and QLayout now report being virtual functions pure in this context and thus won't allocate "new QStyleRangeSlider()"

any input would be appreciated. (especially if there is a Qt5 widget I'm not familiar with yet)

tnx cK   nailed it! the above mentioned "nifty widget" is now working, just had to re-implement the missing functions 2EZ! Qt Rocks!
I think it would be nice to popup this doodle when RMB or hovering over a float slider that has settings.

Windows executable here                Source code here

bon appetite!

I've posted a zip file of the executable only,
for those who have already downloaded the larger file with all of the libraries
or if you have Qt 5.1.1 installed with MinGW from the qt-projects site
this file is only 350k Fragmentarium-Desktop_Qt_5_1_1_MinGW_32bit-Release-exe-only.zip

overwrite the Fragmentarium.exe file with this one or copy
icudt51.dll  icuuc51.dll  libstdc++-6.dll Qt5Core.dll  Qt5OpenGL.dll  Qt5Widgets.dll
icuin51.dll  libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll  libwinpthread-1.dll  Qt5Gui.dll   Qt5Script.dll  Qt5Xml.dll
into the same folder as Fragmentarium.exe

latest tweak: the spline paths and control points now show up with the right colors but only line up properly when FOV == 1.0  

I am laughing at "cat mull"! Meow!

Hi, just a question about animations.
I am using the Fragmentarium version of the  28th of August and I am playing around with animations in equirectangular fractals.
So far I am sort of successfull with the key frame animations but I have two questions (bear in mind I have not done that much work with Fragmentarium).

I posted two 360 videos on vrtv360.
In my first one http://www.vrtv360.com/watch=TLCaoGEMWils you can sometimes see the splinepath and I am not sure why that is. I made the path in progressive mode using F8 to insert keyframes and I do not see the path when I use the animation slider but I see it in the finished render.
Then again that did not happen in another animation I did so I am not sure how I caused it.

Now the second question is how do I change fractal parameters.  I would the fractal to be unchanged for e.g. 5 keyframes and then change one (or more) parameter(s) over the next 3 frames and then fly on.
As far as I read those changed paramters do not go in the keyframe section (as they do in Mandelbulb 3D AFAIK).
Do I need to use the script section and set up some if (time > 20 ) { 'start parameter change' } and do my own calculations or is there an easier way?

Sorry if I am missing something really obvious.

Ahhh!!!
I knew I was missing something.
I did the F7 thing and saved them as non-keyframes parameters BUT I put each change in a separate parameter section and started the animation with default - somhow wondering how those sections will be chosen because I could find no reference to them anywhere.

As you say - once you got it it seems quite obvious.

Thanks, my first flythrough with parameter changes is just rendering! 

Yes, I confirm the words barcud! Indeed, in the finished animation skips the line splines.

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