..... 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 :)
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 !!!