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New Apophysis 3D Release

::laurengary
10/03/07 5:02 PM GMT
The new Apophysis 3D version by Zueuk & company has been released today !! You can find it at Sourceforge.net here --->

Get it while it's hot everybody !!!


Zueuk's DevianyART journal


According to his journal today .......


..... Apart from being 3D, this version contains a couple of bugfixes, and even some new features that may appear good enough to be integrated into the main Apophysis branch.
Here's an overview of the most important features:

:bulletblue: Adjust window now contains "3D camera" controls. You can rotate your view either by editing angle values, or just by clicking on the preview image and dragging.

:bulletred: Editor window still is NOT suitable for 3D editing. So we got to use a work-around here: we're going to use a special kind of variations for this (and that's why it's called "hack" :D)
Variations with names starting with "pre_" are applied before any other variations. Likewise, variations with names starting with "post_" are applied after anything else. Be careful about using several of them at once though, because sometimes you can not be sure in which order they will be called. :|

So, if we use "triangles" to transform our fractal points in X and Y axes, to transform Z value we're going to use:
pre_zscale
pre_ztranslate
pre_rotate_x
pre_rotate_y

I hope the names are quite self-explanatory...
But all this "pre_" stuff is not only useful for 3D. Add a bit of pre_blur to the bubble - and you'll get a very smooth looking sphere ;)

Btw, most of the original variations work only in 2D, that is - if you'll try to transform a 3D point with them, it's Z-position will be lost. But you still can add 3D-ness to them, using these "ordinary" variations:
zscale
ztranslate
zcone

- they work only on Z axis, so you can combine them with any of the 2D variations.

The only old 2D variations that "became" 3D are bubble and cylinder. I suspect you understand why ;)

Because of so many new variations were added, I decided to remove some old (useless) ones, including cosine, exponential, power, the "old" julia and etc... I hope not so many people will miss them, and we can add them as plugins anyway :)

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If you guys understand this .... great ! LOL !!

In any case .... there you go & Happy Apo~ing !!!
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::J_272004
10/03/07 10:34 PM GMT
Sounds interesting.. i'm off to have a look...
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&KEIFER
10/03/07 10:49 PM GMT
I can't wait for Lauren to write a tutorial for this

(*smacks hands together*)
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::laurengary
10/04/07 12:48 AM GMT
*looks around *

Yeah, me too !
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::razorjack51
10/04/07 1:20 AM GMT
Yeah! That's awesome! I'll have to check it out! And did you see what Daniel-djeaton3162 did with it already??

Edit: I can't get the link thing to work tonight.
HERE!! copy and paste...
http://djeaton3162.deviantart.com/art/3-D-StarTwist-66416732
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::laurengary
10/04/07 2:08 AM GMT
And with your script no less ! Did that thing ever turn out cool !

*drools*
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::razorjack51
10/04/07 2:09 AM GMT
I don't know whether to be proud or jealous. *sniff*
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::laurengary
10/04/07 2:14 AM GMT
Both Larry. ;o) Both. :hug:
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