Hi all,
I just uploaded the final beta of MB3D 1.90 for open beta-testing, in order to find ugly bugs which occur on systems which were not already tested.
For a list of changes see below.
If you find any bug or blocker, please report it here. If you are not a member of this forum and got the link from somebody else, please tell him to report your problem.
Please, do not send me email, personal messages etc., better let us collect all stuff here in this thread.
Please, do not report feature-requests, wishes or questions at this thread, because this BETA-testing phase is only intended to find bugs/blockers on configurations which were not already tested yet - it will already end at 23th December!
Thank you!
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Final changes which will make it into the release:
- Support for animated (height)maps! (Use the new "Map Sequences"-window in the Prefs-section to define them
and to assign the sequence to a map channel)
- new MutaGen-module to easily explore new combinations of formulas and settings
- four types of mutations:
- add, remove, exchange formulas
- modify params of formulas
- modify Julia-mode
- modify iteration count
- in the UI you may turn on/off those types individually, by specifying a weight, and you may specify an additional
strength-parameter
- you may browse through the already generated generations of mutations and restart on interesting results
- you may resize the window to alter the size of the generated thumbnail images
- you may cancel/restart the mutation-process at any time (sometimes there occur combinations of parameters
which may lead to "endless" calculations, in such cases it is helpful to be able to just restart)
- WARNING: some formula-combinations may crash the program, so save often!
- This is just the first version, e.g. interpolated functions are not supported yet!
- Please note that it is intented that this module does not create ready-to-use artworks from scratch.
It can only happen, when you put in well made parameters (whith everything what makes a great artwork),
that the mutation will keep many of those properties, making it a nice artwork.
Or in short: the better your input, the better the output.
- Navigator-size may now be altered (you must expand the right toolbar to see the "Navigator size" control),
the last setting is stored to the ini-file
- Global rework of the UI, added theme-support, made "Glossy" the default theme
- Formula-Window:
- exchanging of formulas now works in two directions
- integrated formula-editor for creating/editing JIT-compiled formulas (see the new buttons in the formula window)
- support for MB3D's parameters and constants
- preprocessor to deal with the parameter-handling code
- backed by the commercial PaxCompiler
- included support for about 50 mathematical functions
- watch out for formulas with the prefix "JIT" for examples!
- Many new formulas from the community at fractalforums.com
- New Info-Section at the main window, which now has a button to reach the official bug-reporting tool
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Here is the temporary link (which will also expire in a couple of days):
http://www.andreas-maschke.de/java/tmp/Mandelbulb3Dv190FINALBETA.zipBest regards,
Andreas