Title: JWildfire V2.22 release Post by: thargor6 on December 23, 2014, 01:17:25 AM It has been a while since the previous release, so there are some really new major new features, probably some of them will need some tutorials relaesed to be really enjoyable, but I hope, you will like them anyway: - ability to use images as 2D-gradient for awesome “natural” looking fractals - the invention of iflames and first implementation as variation “iflames_wf” - easy 3D-flames by supporting affine-transform in 3D in the editor - use any fractal as bokeh-shape - bokeh-random-flame-generator Complete list of changes: - ability to use images as 2D-gradient fore awesome “natural” looking fractals - experimental simple way to create 3d-flames by just specifying 3 affine transforms in 3 planes, needs nearly no change in the editor, but can be very powerful - first implementation of iflames in form the “iflames_wf”-variation (please stay tuned for a tutorial) - new button to switch on/off progressive preview in the interactive renderer - new Bokeh-shapes: - CannabisCurve - Cloverleaf - Flower - Perlin Noise - SubFlame (use ANY fractal as shape, even SVG-shapes. Save the flame as “_dof_<number>.flame” into your flame folder, where number is a zero padded nummber starting from 1, e.g. “0001″, “0002″, …. Choose this flame by specifying the “flame”-param of the DOF-Shape) - Taurus - new “Bokeh”-random-flame-generator - new “Duality”-random-flame-generator - some options in the Preferences to customize the “Duality”-random-flame-generator - new “vogel”-variation by Victor Ganora - Gradients: - new button to randomly select a gradient from the currently selected folder - new button to randomize color shift on the gradient tab - new button to randomize color speed on the gradient tab - new “Affine3D”-mutation for the MutaGen - new “Bokeh”-mutation for the MutaGen - many optimizations, especially made the renderer more smooth, i. e. reduced the amount of thread collisions - fixed the “rings2″-variation, was buggy from the first time - “new dof” is off per default (as is was off in any other version) - removed the experimental “responsiveness” setting - removed the “cross2″-variation (which works exactly like the “cross”-variation), some small fixes You can download the new version at the projects web page: http://www.andreas-maschke.com/?page_id=351 (http://www.andreas-maschke.com/?page_id=351) Have Fun, and I wish you some nice holidays! Andreas |