evil_mumm_ra

i render at 4000 quality right now, and these take me 2-4 hours to render. i have a crappy old computer, so when i get a new computer i can render them larger, and a higher quality.

but she's a sexy zombie, so it's ok. in this case i'm all for a bit of necrophilia.

in addition to my last two updates in the post above this, i've added one more hide tag at the top of the page, i'm just absolutely amazed at it because i've outdone myself.

i thought dyslexia was reading stuff backwards, like switching letters in words, or switching number around when reading. stuff like that.

damn.

hmm, that DLC was longer than i thought. i beat it all though, opened the armory [hide=]and the defender dude started attacking me, along with some of the other outcasts in there. was this supposed to happen? i left with a very wtf disposition towards it.[/hide] as for the actual operation anchorage part, i found 8/10 intel, does it matter if you find 10/10?

nope, i thought about posting a marble madness picture though :o it is NES though.

blitzball was amazing, i rocked at it. it was all about playing it, leveling your players, and good recruiting. and yeah, i noticed about "whinge" in my post prior to yours.

for my test renders to see how they will look, i do size: 600x375 quality: 200 or 500 filter radius: 0.4 oversample: 1 and they are 2-4 minutes. for my full renders i do size: 1680x1050 quality: 4000 filter radius: 0.4 oversample: 2 and they are 2-4 hours.

your size is a lot smaller than mine as well. and i'm willing to bet that my triangles have more calculations and all that stuff. adds up to a huge render time. although i do like the dome one. although a black background is much better. maybe try getting the dome to actually be a dome of color or with some design? it's all not really that colorful. hmm, or maybe adjust the scale option so you are zoomed closer on the dome. it is a good fractal though.

none of the above. and both systems flodder guessed are wrong.

it'll automatically save the picture to the path you choose in the render window, you just navigate to that folder, and upload to devart or wherever from that folder. the render times are long though, which is why i recommend rendering while you sleep or while you go somewhere else. with apophysis 2.08 beta 2 or the 3d hack, it will render it with a transparent background, you just go in gimp or photoshop or whatever and add a background layer with the color you want and save it like that.

the program is basically just plugging in numbers into the different variations of fractal, which then alters the flame, each normal fractal that i make is 2-4 "triangles" which are used by the program to calculate how the flame ends up looking. the with all the different gradients built into apophysis, and the ability to make your own with gimp or whatever (which i don't know how to do yet) all adds up to something that's pretty complicated, and amazing since it's free. i enjoy it, i sit for hours messing with the numbers for a specific fractal, altering it in miniscule ways, or scrapping it and starting over. each fractal i make i try to do something different. edit: updated with the best accident ever. edit2: updated with another hide tag of my little fractal story thing.

I was trying to say whinge... :?: I'm really confused now... :| whinge? ?[hwinj, winj] Show IPA Pronunciation verb (used without object), whinged, whing?ing. British and Australian Informal. to complain; whine good call, you must be british or aussie, cause i thought you were just typoing :P never heard whinge before.

i edited out the character, as that would possibly have made it obvious.

i know what you mean, i just do it cause i enjoy it and i think it looks cool. i've never used photoshop, and i don't think i've seen a filter pile, but i'm sure i can imagine what you mean. a lot of what i do is just kind of random numbers and stuff till i get something that looks cool. ard choille does amazing stuff with apophysis if you ask me. there are lots of things that i find amazing that people do with the program that i'm completely clueless on, but hopefully with time i'll understand it a bit better. i'm a lot better now than i used to be.

i don't write any scripts. i just modify the random batch, or select the variation i wanna mess with. and yeah, he's not rendering his, he's clicking the fullscreen button, and then hitting prt scr. >.>

ah, see that's the problem. the difference between fullscreen and a render is this: [hide=printscreen][/hide] notice all the dots, and the different background color and all that. [hide=render][/hide] notice how smooth it looks and how brighter the colors seem, the new background color, and how everything just seems neater? rendering is well worth the time spent.

spyware from msn plus? i've not encountered any, then again i'm not downloading every script i find either. i've got like 4 scripts or something, i just use it for the colors and stuff. i would at least like to see some sort of documentation about your spyware claim.

novadrome.

i liked ffx, it was pretty good. blitzball was amazing fun. haven't played 12 or crisis core though, so i can't argue with you there. (on a side note, there is no g in "whine" that just really bothered the inner grammar nazi in me)

hmm, with apophysis, what are your render settings? in order to get good high quality renders (although they will take a long time, mine take anywhere from 2-4 hours usually) the quality setting should be at 2000 or 4000, preferably 4000, you'll get less pixelation when they are zoomed in, or enlarged, filter of 0.4, and oversample of 2. now i'm not sure what the filter and oversample do, but when i do a test render, i set the quality down to like 200 or 500 depending on how clear i want it, and filter stays the same. oversample i set to 1. then i do a small sample size, like 514x348 or whatever the hell it is. that's a good small test render for how the final product will look, then you can make changes and do the large final render at whatever size you want. i really like #6, i like spirals and such.

that one is really cool looking, did you make that with gimp or apophysis?

how do you get the lionhead leaderboards to update? my gamertag should be ranked in nearly everything, but it's not.

how do you get the fractal then? you can do that in gimp? interesting, i didn't know that. with apophysis there are numerous guides online to get started. all i did to get started with it was mess with the triangle editor, and mess with numbers until i have something that looks cool. that's the easy part, you don't really have to understand anything to do it. then i choose the gradient i want, etc. i basically just mess with the program till i have something that looks cool. i understand it better now than i did at first, but that's just from messing with different settings and reading tutorials and stuff. look on deviantart for some apophysis tutorials/groups and stuff. they help a lot.