Knuten opened this issue on Apr 26, 2003 ยท 14 posts
marcusbacus posted Tue, 27 May 2003 at 2:16 PM
Knuten, I don't see why you can't use better resolutions. If it works in 360x480, you should be able to use bigger resolutions too. I am using the SF7 mode, SuperVGA/Vesa autodetect, and I am able to use any of the "standard" resolutions this way (640x480, 800x600, etc). Probably your card doesn't have this VESA compatibility, not sure. Also, I never run it in a window, it's always full-screen. Also, there are ways to customize the video settings, but I've never tried that. Any customization in Fractint is very complicated, and the only one I could do so far was the starting image's settings. Fractint can save the image's "parameters" the same way as UF does, in "PAR" files. Whenever you get an image you want to save, hit "B" to save the "parameter set" - name it using the DOS conventions (8+3), and name your image and fill other required fields (I just change the "save colors" to "yes"), F6 changes the folders if you don't want to save them in your default folder. Other images can be saved this way into the same "parameter set" (that can be like "images of May/03"), each one has its own entry just like in UF, I like to name mine using just numbers. To recover a saved image, hit "@" in the main menu, and find the .PAR file you want to open and load the desired entry. And after a .PAR is saved, you can use it in UF the same way as .UPRs. Be warned though that some images may appear slightly (or very!) different in UF (some can't be fixed at all), mostly those that use the "T" and "B" drawing modes and some other coloring methods. So far, I was able to recover about 90% of my original Fractint images in UF. Once in UF, you are free to use any of its features. The CTRl-E (available in the 20.0 version only I think, not available in Winfract) makes Fractint create N images for you. Hit it and then change a few settings and you're done. Mine are: Evolution mode: Y Image grid size: 7 (odd numbers only), the bigger the number, the more images it displays at once. the other settings can be left as they are, then hit F6 to change specific formula settings. I like to set all to "random" whenever it's possible, but the "invert radius" and "invert center x-y" fields (sometimes I change these to random too). Page-Up/Down selects the image to be zoomed (the same way as with big images), and ctrl-arrows make you browse through the generated images. Choose one, hit Enter and it becomes the central image, and a new "evolution" starts again. To view one of these images, select it, hit CTRl-E to enter the Evolution settings page again and change "Full screen" to N again. When you start getting too many repetitions or if nothing changes too much, it's time to try another formula. F1 while in the Evolution mode page gives you a more detailed description of this control along with a short "tutorial". If you have more questions feel free to write me at fractals@baco.nu .