Attached Link: Rose's Fractal Site!

Well the renders in your gallery are absolutely gorgeous - I have added you as one of my favorite artists!

And since I'm kind of new to fractals I didn't even know about the filters that you could add.

I'm assuming - well actually I don't know but are you adding the filters while in the fractal program or are you adding the filters during post-rendering while in a 2d program?

Attached Link: Rose's Fractal Page

> Quote - Hi all, > > It's time to vote for your favorite entry! > > Please read the voting rules in the challenge page before casting your vote. > > Voting will close March 2 at 11:59 PM Renderosity time. > > Good luck to all! > Barb

Is there a way to see who voted for which entries / see how many votes an entry received after the contest is over?

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> Quote - There's a program out there called Crossroads. It's pretty simple, does a few of the common formats, and it's free. > > Also, Blender has a lot of import/export options, as to most modelers (Wings 3d, for example). They're both free as well.

Yes I have had the Crossroads program before too and was now looking for it again.  I want it so that I can convert my Spatch .dxf files to .obj so that I can import them into Wing3d

Here is the link to the site with the program on it

http://synapse-web.org/tools/xroads/xroads.stm
 
 

> Quote - To add to the tutorial, my own way to make decent looking grass using just Bryce. > > This technique is quite easy and straight forward (sorry if this is already known to you, but maybe there are some that don't know). > > *Start with a terrain. Any type of terrain will do, and will depend on your own needs.* > > *The terrain ideally should be the highest resolution 4096x4096, but if your PC is slower then a lower resolution will suffice. The resolution will of course effect the realism in your render. > > Add a dash (very little) of basic noise to the terrain whilst still in the terrain editor. > > Raise or lower the terrain to your own needs and bare in mind that the grass will be more spikey the higher or less spikey the lower you adjust it. > > Now add the material. The Mat or material should be grass like and contain a little noise, flat one coloured mats will not get the desired result.. There are a few Mats that are suitable under terrain mats. > > In the Materials Lab, raise the bump map (experiment with this depending on which mat you use) and also raise the transparency to between 15-20. This is also dependant upon taste and what you are trying to achieve. The transparency will give the impression of more denseness, and the bump map should give the more spikey quality to grass. > > Now do a test render. If the grass looks too much like spikey cones then too much noise was added to the terrain, it only needs to be very little noise to achieve a good looking grass. > * > This finished grass should look something like the image above. Notice the grass up against the wall.

Tutorials always tend to distract me!

I'm trying to get it per your tutorial - think I'm trying too hard!
 

Attached Link: My Fractal Site

I was glad to have FINALLY taken part in one of the contests - and now I'm hungry for more!

Attached Link: My Fractal Site

> Quote - Hi Rose, > * > "Is it that when people upload fractals to their galleries they get looked over and picked for the weekly Fractal Community or do they have to be submitted somewhere in particular?"* > > The first option would be correct =) > > Cheers! > Barb

Thanks for the answer!

I finally managed to enter one of the contests and I'm "hungry" for more posting opportunities!

Quote - Attached Link: Fractal Community Page

Hi everybody!

The new FWW is up.
Check it out!

Viv and Barb

Actually this is really the first time that I was aware of this weekly Fractal thing.  I have read the guidelines and am confused about some points.

Is it that when people upload fractals to their galleries they get looked over and picked for the weekly Fractal Community or do they have to be submitted somewhere in particular?

Attached Link: Rose's Fractal Site

> Quote - I'm not sure what you mean by 'support', UltraFractal has one of the most active support communities around.  There is a very active (50+ messages a day) mailing list that you can join on the UF site as well as communities in Yahoo and dA.  There are many tutorials (the ones that are included in the Help section of the program are excellent by themselves!) and even classes at  the Visual Arts Acadamy online with Janet Parke and Kerry Mitchell, two people who have been involved with UF since it first appeared.  If you have any questions on any of these, or need more information you can send me a site mail. > > ~Viv

I have to agree that the Ultra Fractal mailing list is great!  Unfortunately I had to cancel out of the mailing list because I was just getting too many messages in my inbox.

Attached Link: Rose - My Fractal Page

OK, this is one contest that I VOW to enter!

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I'm just getting to that email myself!

I'm so new to it but it was a "kick" knowing that revenue could actually be gotten from it.  I only have the one texture on my site but at least its a start and at least they are still letting us upload stuff.

And they did say that they were going to try to add the revenue thing again.

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> Quote - The different layers are done in Apophysis itself. Each triangle creates its own element in the composition and the elements can overlap each other. Now, I did use post production in some of these images, but it was mainly for fixing colors and lighting and for chosing a background color. > "Death" had quite a bit of post production applied to it while "Slimy stars" had barely any.

"Slimy stars" looks like it's two layers one with the vein-looking part and the 2nd part looks like small white spotlights - you were able to achieve that effect with just one layer?

The "Death" image looks like an image set on a white background but there are also "spotlights" of brown - again you managed to do this with out  making individual layers and then merging them?

Here is something I made quickly which involved making 2 different apophysis flames and then merging them in Gimp - they look like some twigs in the snow.

"Gold" and "Corner" and "Birthplace"look like more than one layer....and "Typical" looks like a stress fracture As you can see I'm still trying to get a hold of the learning curve of this fractal program

Quote - I've just started using Apophysis after seeing images using the program popping up in the galleries. I haven't posted my own images so I figured I'd share them on this forum instead.

By the way, am I the only one who thinks this program had a pretty steep learning curve? It took quite a lot of work just to get something remotely render-worthy.

By the way, I did take a look at your gallery with your apophysis fractals and I wanted to know if you rendered those with using just one layer?  Were you able to "tweak" the apophysis images within the program itself so that it looks like there's more than one layer or do you do some "post"  artwork to it?

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I'm also kind of new to this program too.  It does take it a while to render but I've been reading (and saving) tips that I have gotten online like using a smaller size so that it will take less time to render.

I still have a couple of "help" files to help me but it's going to take some time for me to learn.

I do also have the Ultra Fractal Program which seems a little bit more easier for me - probably only because I have had it longer - but it has soooo many options.

I'm including a render that I made with apophysis - just some simple candy canes - but ooooh it took me a long time to even create this!

I think the program has a lot of potential - its just that it will take some time to really get the hang of it.

I love hair models!  (Still trying to figure out how to make them myself)

I can't wait to try them :biggrin:

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> Quote - > Quote - Oh.. dear.... and here I was going to try and upload my first freebie. I have know idea where to start and don't have a web page or anything like that. All I wanted to do was give my texture to the freebies area. > >   > > Thats not to difficult at all > 1 You! have to find a place where you can store it. > 2 read the info on the upload page of the freestuf.. > 3 Do what you read and upload your thumb nail to R'O > 4 wait and see when your stuff hits the Freebee section > > These new rules dont affect you and 98% of the others who upload freestuff. > And when you dont know what to do after reading the info etc etc you can always IM a R'O mod for help... > > I hope this helps you > > Chris

I thank you for posting this.  I have yet to upload my first "freebie" but its good to know at least how to do it.

I also wanted to add that I am new to the CG Share site and am learning about that site as well.

But I can't wait to upload my first "freebie"!