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Hi.

Any and all of those can be animated.

Smooth effects may vary depending upon the number of frames between each change (and how drastic your change is).

Here's an example where all I did was animate the DE Parameter, no other parameters change.

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I suggest picking a quick to render fractal, then making it the first keyframe in an animation - then changing values one at a time and making a new keyframe - then previewing.  This will give you an idea of how it animates. If it seems abrupt, try adding more frames.

Some values, like the power value in an Integer Function, will not animate smoothly between values because they are integer only functions.  No decimals are used when calculating those, but they are all marked "Integer" someplace.  

Hope that is what you were looking for.

Have fun with it!

EDIT -


Did you notice the "tooltips" that pop up when you hover the mouse over each of the things you listed?  The manual is built in - sort of - so each thing has a brief description which may or may not help.

Hi Sfumato,

You say:
"Some peculiarities of MB3D behavior are not clear at all, say, zooming in by changing the number doesn't work sometimes, nor marking a zoom-in area with a left-bottom button results in the selected area shown in the render window...Dozens of questions arise, taking into account I am neither a mathematician, nor a programmer..."

I had to smile. I guess we've all(?) been there. That's like your welcome to M3D (!) I'm still new to M3D too and have a gazillion questions, but I keep disappearing to use the 'trial and error' you feel is too time consuming. M3D IS time consuming - in a good/bad way too - like you get lost in it - but what makes it worthwhile to get lost are the FANTASTIC results you can get. For this, the price is often frustration and certainly time.

Sockratease (as ever) is right. Find something you like..."making it the first keyframe in an animation - then changing values one at a time and making a new keyframe."

As you say, a comprehensive 'how to' is not readily available. However, there are lots of snippets of tips to ongoing tutorials that others (including myself) have started to put together - even in the recent time I have been visiting. (see this M3D forum) From MY experience, learning something one day will not necessarily work the same way in a different formula, so 'learning' is a steep curve.

With reference to your "noise" (white and black grainy dots), reducing a combination of DE stop, Raystep Multiplier and Stepwidth Limiter to values with a decimal point tends to improve quality but will increase render time. Stepcount also comes into it. I find that a Raystep of 0.055 takes maybe five or more times longer to render than 0.5, but brings in lots of detail that was missing. A DE stop of 0.1 can sharpen up something previously done at 0.8 - again it takes longer.

I hope you find something good enough to get lost in trial and error.

regards
kam

Step width Limiter(SWL) and Raystep multiplier (RSM) are the ones to deal with noise, the lower the RSM and the SWL the cleaner the render along with First step Random and Normals on DE. Careful with DE Stop, too Big or too Small and DE Stop can completely change what you get especially when going Larger in resolution, too little can lead to tearing/overstepping, too big and well, you just never get there, takes a bit but you get to know what you need for what your looking for.