Vampi opened this issue on Sep 03, 2003 ยท 5 posts
Rykk posted Wed, 03 September 2003 at 5:58 PM
Hi, Vampi. All I do to export to Ultrafractal is click "export upr" under "File" and browse to a .upr file (I call it ricFlames) I have created in the Parameters folder of UF. The address would read something like c:program filesUltrafractalDataParametersricFlames.upr. You can do this with the first flame you send over to UF. When you do a "save parasmeters", just give it a name.upr in the box with the long address for "name" and title it whatever, like flame #1 or something. After that, just save each flame to that upr - be sure to title each one different. When you browse that .upr file in UF, it will have all of your flames in it. Be sure to first save each flame parameter in Apopysis. I usually give it a file name like C:Program FilesApophysis 2.0Apo-56.fla and title it like Apo-56 or whatever number I'm up to. Then export it to UF as detailed above. Apo2 remembers where you saved last. With Apo1 you could save one coloring of a flame to Apo, then export a bunch of different colorings of that shape to UF to save time and just save one coloring in Apo since it never remembered the colors saved anyhow and randomly picked one when you opened the flame again - just the shape. In Apo2, you have to save each coloring as a separate parameter in Apo before you export to UF, or you will open in UF and find all are the first color scheme you saved. Probably because Apo2 remembers the gradient used. Like Vivian says, it does take a while to draw the flame in UF depending on how fast your rig is. In Apo 1 you had to then re-save the flame in UF clicking the save formulas box so that you didn't have to constantly tell it which formula to use. Apo2 already knows, so thats better. For images with multiple flames, compose them in a little - say 444x333 wiundow first. Then when you are done and want the image bigger, open a new fractal and resize it however, like 1024x768 or something. Then in the layers sidebar, copy each layer one at a time to the layer box of the big window and delete the original junk fractal layer in the big one. If you have a fast pc, you can get away with pasting 3-5 flame layers rapidly before you have to stop to let it finish. If its slow, go one at a time. Hope this all helps... Rick