Just curious, lots of people have mentioned it, usually with a "havent figured it out yet" comment. So how many of us are out there? and Who wants help, tips, ideas and to swap ideas,xeps,presets etc? I hangout in the Xenodream mailing lists, and have posted some of my lighting presets there, but for those who dont/cant/whatever post there, who's interested in a group thing here? Stacey - self confessed XD addict!

Its $69 US and with the exchange rate I paid NZ $189 and think its worth every cent.

I got it about a week ago, but fall into the category of "haven't figured it out yet".

Well I can recommend going in to the help files and doing the Shell Tutorial and then the other one. I did the Shell one first and played quite happily for a few months with that. The second one (name forgotten sorry) teaches you about metamorphs which are really cool!

I will try that, thanks. I have a bad habit of just clicking on stuff until something happens. I think xenodream is going to require a bit more effort. ;)

yes just clicking on stuff (which is how I work too :) gets surprising results) doesnt really work with XD, you need to have a basic idea of what to do THEN randomly clik on stuff :)

XenoDream wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be and am still working in abstracts (which is what I love about fractals ... no one can say, "It doesn't look like a (fill in the blank) to me."). I don't think I will ever get to the stage where I can create images that look like tables, lamps, etc - which I know XD is capable of creating. There are quiet a few presets included with the program. If you open a file, the default folder is called "Starters" (or something like that). But, if you go up a level and open the data folder - each subfolder has more images to play with. If I can help anyone, just shout :)

Hi folks. It's nice to see some familiar faces here - even nicer to see the names of some old friends. Looks like Renderosity is somewhat larger than it used to be. :) Oh yeah. The topic. I'm an XD user too. Don't know if I can help anyone, and I'm not around much, but I can try.

Attached Link: http://www.aartika.co.uk/xenodream.html

I think I'm probably a semi-user, or something ;-)

I bought it when it was first released, got quite into it, then lost interest a bit while waiting for the update to come out. Now it's here, I just haven't had the time to get going with it again - maybe after the kids' summer holidays I'll give it a go again. My favorite xenodreamer has to be Linda McArthy. Tina

PS welcome to r'sity Sean

aartika! fractal art by Tina Oloyede :  http://www.aartika.co.uk

Linda's stuff is beautiful, isn't it? In some ways her personal style is more recognizable than many other XD artists.

Thanks for the welcome, BTW. I was here for a while as Space-Guy but that name is associated with a site which no longer exists, so I started this account instead and will slowly be moving the few pictures from that account to this one.

Attached Link: http://www.fractalus.com/cgi-bin/theway?ring=fractals&id=43&go

May I suggest taking a look at some of the Tips and Tutorials I have started at one of my web sites, if you are interested. They are not complete yet (since I always find new things to add), but they may be helpful in some areas: http://66.39.71.195/Fractals/XenoDream/ Some of the examples on the above site use the XEP files I supplied earlier this year. All 89 of those may be obtained from here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xenodreamers/files/PNL-XEP_s.zip

Is their a Demo of the program?

Sorry, but there is no official Demo at this time.