Hi!
Because the original Kalles Fraktaler Thread (with now 14 pages and still growing) is getting more and more cluttered and hard to search I'd like to have a kind of bug-/wishlist where all bugs and whishes are collected (and striked through when done).
Kalle, may I suggest that you copy this thread and start it as threadstarter, so you can collect stuff in the first post? everyone could see what is planned, not planned, done, maybe with a rating system for bugs/wishes for example like this:
-one *(nice to have one day) to ***** (absolute showstopper),
-b=bug, w=wish,
-plus number to easily find a bug. and f for kalles fraktaler, m for movie maker
Example: 22 B ***
just a suggestion, this is how we did it at the software company I worked some years ago.. feel free to modifiy.m
kalle, please don't understand this as a try to put pressure on you. just to make the contributions/wishes from the community a little more organized.
so here are my points, collected over the last months:
Kalles Fraktaler1f W **** free adjustable image size for other ratios than 16:9. (see whish 1m)
2f W *** make colour selection easier in general (see following points)
3f W *** add undo to colour selection
4f W ** add colour cycling (by scroll-bar?) to colour section
5f W *** possibility to set the first 10 renders of zoom sequence to a (manually set?)higher iteration to show the usual final minibrot in good detail
6f B ** disable clicking when in "store zoom out/resume" mode to prevent accidental clicks that can cost hours of render time.
7f W * idea: make pseudo 3d possible by using darker version of colour to all points facing southwards and lighter facing northwards.. (know what i mean?)
Movie Maker1m W *** rotation halves resolution. unclear what to put in these fields. please enable us to use resolutions like 1920*1920 in KF to safe even more render time
2m W *** use multicore! especially when colour cycling is enabled, movie generation takes longer than actual rendering..
3m W ** softer transition of speed changes possible? they are still visible, even with many set points. optimal: a checkbox you can klick that will make a speed change gliding between the frame number where its checked and the naxt frame number. For example: Frame 1= Speed 25 X (checkedcheckbox) Frame 20 Speed 60 results in a movie starting at Frame 1 with speed of 25 gradually slowing down over the next 20 keyframes until it reaches speed 60 at frame 20.
4m W *** change palette after rendering the zoom sequence? if you can cycle or do smooth colours, this should be possible right?
5m W ** change colourpalette to previously safed (kf)palette at set points in zoom sequence to keep things interesting in long zooms
6m B ****! examine zoom palette: I can't enter the frame numbers manually, the textbox doesn't react to my input. to reach frame 300 of 600 I have to click for 20 minutes to reach the middle... very annoying
7m W *** fast lofi-preview if "preview only" is checked. right now it takes as long as a full render, so relatively useless. maybe automatically shrink to 1/4 or 1/8 the original size?
8m W ** preview starting from user defined frame numbers, to have a short look if that part in the end of the movie will turn out as planned
9m W **** adjust framenumbers-name so you don't have to calculate all the time. good solution maybe to show the last selected frame in the preview window, so you have feedback what frame you really worked on.
10m B *** Ability to handle higher resolutions (needed because of 1m), 7680*.. leads to crash everytime..
11m W *** New and easier way to handle frame numbers. should be the same as the name of the actual jpg, so you don'T have to calculate anymore.
12m W ** Speed Control: automatically calculate speed into seconds, so I can enter the time directly instead of calculating frames-->sec.
13m W ** "Stillframes" - ability to let keyframes stand still for a time (in which you can then change e.g. the direction/speed of colour cycling)
ok, that's a lot already. sorry
there's more utopian stuff
but that'll have to wait probably..
regards,
chilli