Forum: Fractals


Subject: converting upr back to flame

taurus66 opened this issue on Mar 24, 2007 · 3 posts


Rykk posted Sun, 25 March 2007 at 3:05 PM

Hi "T" :-) I think I remember a long time ago taking the parameters/values, weights and variation type for each of the triangles - these can be found by scrolling down in the ucl window in UF - and entering all of them into an open flame in Apophysis 1 and I was able to recreate the flame that had been part of a upr sent to the UF Mailing List.

It was pretty tedious work but it did work out and I was even able to use the same gradient by saving it to my UF gradients folder and then accessing that from Apo. I don't know if this is still possible to do with the newer flames generated by the beta versions of Apo 2.02c (2.05 being a "beta" is therefore just a new version of 2.02c, the last "supported" version) that are still being updated. But it sounds like you are looking for an easy way to do this but I'm almost positive there isn't one.

A thought did occur to me - probably it wouldn't work if the structure of the file is changed by exporting it as a upr - but maybe try to just change the file type suffix of the UF file. Change the ".upr" to ".fla" for very old Apo1 and Apo2 betas or ".flame" if you want to try to open in one of the newer versions. I doubt this will work but ya never know until you try? I think I'll give it a shot, myself - - -

Nope, NoGo - Apo 2.05 doesn't open anything and Apo2.02c displays just some dots for either .flame or .fla and Apo 1 says it isn't a valid parameter set. So.....I reckon a pencil and clipboard may be your best bet? One thing, though - I have multiple flames saved into a single .upr file and took one of my old ones and resaved it as its own .upr and maybe that messed it up? If yours are each saved in separate, discrete .upr files of their own, maybe it might work. Doubtful but...

Rick