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I know the script and in fact have an unreleased tweak of it.
Have you asked Exper for help? 

If you cannot get assistance from him I could see what I can do.

If you would like to see an Apophysis script that I wrote, you can look here:
http://morphapoph.deviantart.com/art/Apophymator-12-proto-305832263?

The script at the link can create animations somewhat like those flam3 produces.
RenderFlam3 may be more useful to you though. 

Oh... and please... I would ask no compensation if I am able to do the changes.
Thank you, 
Fred

In my script you have to set an option to save parameters.  You also have to set the type of job that the script will do.
There is one option for the type. It is setting e in the main Saved Settings dialog: "Save parameters, No rendering". 
That will eventually produce a windows "Save" dialog where you yourself select where the frame (flame) parameters will be saved.

There are problems associated with using flam4 to render the resultant frames though.  You have to assure yourself that all the flame properties in your keyframes are supported by flam4.  Otherwise you can use Apo to render directly with my Apophymator script which will be, as you probably know, quite a bit slower.
If you use flam4 and it does not support some flame properties in your keyflames then even those will not look correct.

Although flam3 will produce the flame file you're looking for, I can't remember if Exper's script sets the type of batch file up that would produce it.  In other words, you may have to use flam3 directly.
I do remember trying something similar and it was a beast of a problem to deal with.
It involves using the term "sequence" with the flam3 commands.


I know about flam4's animation feature.  It's limited and development appears to have all but ceased.

Fred
 

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You are welcome so much!!!

Awesome is ok, I s'pose, but a little less awe and shock would be good as well. <irony>
(Perfect is beyond my comprehension. truth.)
I am so very glad you were able to learn to use the script !!

I feel I could improve the flow of the settings choices.  The improvement would include adjusting the Final Settings dialog.
I would really like to get the "Preview while Rendering" (approx.) setting into that dialog.

I am lucky I somehow became involved with making fractals and even unusually came to write the script.
But someday I am thinking that there will be other ways to do what you wanted to do that brought you to my script.  I'm sure if that day does come you will then be much more delighted by what you see..
( Ooops... some animals, I believe racoons, are grunting outside my windows... see here:
http://morphapoph.deviantart.com/art/Rental-Horrors-311008142 )

In fact there is another flame generating app named jWildfire - embarrassingly I forget at the moment the author's name.
He is here at FF though, and if you search for jWildfire you will find the program.  jWildfire is a 'program in progress' (incidentally I somehow believe "wip", which I see often in names, means: 'work in progress'.)

No render time needed at the moment but I will most certainly remember your offer.
Hey... we'll be around... no hurry on my side!!
And I am so pleased to meet you btw.  :-)
Going,... gone...

Fred

My work on Apophymator script is also ongoing, but interrupted at this time.
I doubt it would be helpful but if you can understand my messy Apophymator code you're welcome to use whatever you can lift out of it (apart from stuff like my name and so forth. haha)
(I believe I've properly GPL'd my script but I'm no expert on such legal issues.)

Will jWildfire render individual frames or must animations be produced into .swf files?
I don't like using Adobe software at all. period.

  I've seen people request single frame rendering/saving for other apps like M3D.
This is the way Apophymator works. :-()

I thought I've seen some jumpy, snapping stuff in some of your animations.  (Not that the effect is necessarily bad but...) 
I suspect those "pops" are from variations (or other flame properties) that are limited to using whole numbers.
Have I misinterpreted what I've seen?  The reason I ask is that I'm aware that you've developed new flame capabilities in jWildfire so the jumps are perhaps from something else?

Heheh... stunning fractal animations are (usually, as far as I've seen) only created with stunning fractals (and some of yours are indeed quite stunning for flames).
I don't make stunning flames so I don't expect my examples to be stunning animations.
I am not an artist.  I am not a coder.  And I am not a professional anything.

I've tried jWildfire on a Pentium IV (w/hyperthreading).
That system probably doesn't fairly demonstrate what jWildfire is capable of.
But I will NOT install Java on my main work system ().

I don't have a smartphone and I hope I never do.

Are you writing the CUDA renderer?  I would have liked to have seen Keldor314 continue his flam4 work but he seems to have absconded.

I'm not sure what exactly you mean by "Spline interpolated keyframing".  Does jWildfire use only linear interpolation?
Apophymator uses linear or spline interpolation.  It also allows for a "rotation" segment in between morph segments.  The two segments will usually blend together smoothly.
The script does something like "electric sheep" but not, of course, exactly.

As if it were a plague, I avoid Facebook.

... I guess some things in life are still free.
I don't want to debate with the people who say "nothing in life is free".

For some of the reasons I mention above I am not very interested in using jWildfire but I truly do admire the results you are achieving as shown in the images & now animations that you are uploading.
Will jWildfire always be free??

Hopefully a friend,
Fred (..old old friends call me fredley -rhymes with friendly)!

Fred E

Andreas & Fred,
Thanks for the input.  I just had a chance to look at Jwildfire, wow, the possibilities...!

As an artist only and not a programmer this would be my wishlist:

1   Cuda rendering
2   Animation Motion blur
3   Option so save incremental flames of an animation

Here is a sample of some old work I did with Apo and Exper's Renderflam3 script.  I works great but without Cuda it was quite a time investment.
This animation has been converted many times so the quality really suffers here on Vimeo...

<a href="https://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=16014551&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=01AAEA" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=16014551&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=01AAEA</a>

Thnaks All,
Pete

Apophysis in my understanding is "Delphi" and the script language I used is a sub-category, I suppose.
My script contains lots of code that is only applicable to Apo. 


Heheh... I have an experimental version of my script that runs indefinitely. heheh
(However, I haven't worked on it or used it for maybe a couple of years.)


I hear that!


I hear that too!  I wasn't sure when I first started seeing your work appear.  But you raced forward somehow and I'm really enjoying what you're uploading.


All fractal software needs links to graphics renderers.  At least IMnsHO.


Yeah, I figured you had the "right stuff" to be able to do that.  The spline interpolation was the most grueling for me and I still don't like the way some of it is working.
I also just can't figure out why no much more capable coder than I has ever tried to do some similar type of script.
I'm honestly not the best person since I'm just a hack (old sense) when it comes to computer code.


That's very good to hear.
Fred

Andreas




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Yes, it s another language, but I think it would also be applicable to JWF(-scripts). I have translated some Apo scripts to JWF scripts yet (but they are modifying/creating only single flames).

Andreas