Title: JWildfire 2.56 release: improved render-quality Post by: thargor6 on July 21, 2015, 03:47:29 AM Just released JWildfire V2.56.
This version comes with the following major new features: - improved render quality: spatial oversampling and a few of other option to significantly improve render-quality (see the official Wiki for details: http://wiki.jwildfire.org/index.php?title=Manual_RenderQualityFlameFractals (http://wiki.jwildfire.org/index.php?title=Manual_RenderQualityFlameFractals)) - visualisation of filter-kernels to make it more transparent how filtering works and how different settings work - reduced memory-usage (needs about 50% of memory with identical settings as before) - simplified install: no more installer, just unzip, additional package for Windows 64 Bit with pre-installed Java and Leap-motion-dll’s Complete list of changes: - new spatial-oversampling-option for improved render-quality. The default value is 2, this may be set in the Preferences - visualisation of filter-kernels for better understanding/easier customizing of the spatial filtering process, both a nice-looking 3d-mode and a fast 2d-mode are available - new sample-jittering- and color-oversampling-option for improved render-quality. The default value is off, this may be set in the Preferences. - new post-noise-filtering-option for redusing noise of the final noise by using an adaptive gaussian filter. The default value is off, this may be set in the Preferences. - added a brief description of all of this options in the official Wiki: wiki.jwildfire.org/index.php?t… - changed the memory management/layout of the iteration buffer (rendering should now take significantly less memory, and initialisation of rendering runs substantly faster, comes to a cost of only slightly degraded render time) - the final image-generating-process now works fully multi-threaded and should be faster - added a new experimental option “Opacity” to control the opacity of the foreground when rendering an image with background (often those renders caused the loss of too many details) - new “Pseudo3D”-random-flame-generator - improved the “Xenomorph”-random-flame-generator - improved the “Cross”-random-flame-generator - some more useful statistics in the interactive renderer, e.g. absolute render-speed-indicator to make it easier to compare different settings (render speed means the quality level the renderer can reach in one hour) - the windows-launcher (JWildfire.exe) should now be much smarter to find a valid Java-install - completely removed the izpack-installer (until now there were always two files: a *.zip for users who just wanted to unzip, or an izpack-based installer which caused too many - problems) there are now two packages available: platform-independant without jdk and any dll’s, and windows64 with jdk and certain dll’s – removed the applet from the distribution - the Chaotica-integration is now disabled by default (in order to hide the export-button which may occupy important space for some users) changed the animation-playback in the main-editor to full-window-size - made the detached renderer and the interactive renderer to behave more smooth - progressbar-update should be much smoother now, i.e. use less ressources - negative “perspective”-values are allowed now (again) - when using post-symmetry, the maximum of symmetry-order of point-symmetry was increased from 18 to 36 - new ouputchannel to change param-values of plugins via the Leap Motion controller - added a new option tinaIntegrationChaoticaAnimationExport to the preferences. This option controls if the flames which are exchanged over the Chaotica-bridge are animated flames or static flames. In case you export them as static flames and have not a Studio licence for Chaotica you may render in higher resolutions. - fixed a bug in the crop-like variations - fixed a bug regarding autoimatically saving the current flame in the iteractive renderer - some refactoring of the structure synthesizer - completely removed all experimental opencl-code Here is some recently created image: (http://www.andreas-maschke.com/wp-content/gallery/wallpapers/wallpaper_fusion5_high.jpg) 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! Andreas Title: Re: JWildfire 2.56 release: improved render-quality Post by: cKleinhuis on July 22, 2015, 01:05:03 AM thank you for the information, and now you are developing two great programs at the same time, respects for that!
Title: Re: JWildfire 2.56 release: improved render-quality Post by: LMarkoya on July 22, 2015, 03:11:03 AM THats a pretty impressive demo pic Andreas, thanks for the update |