A new release is available here: RenderFlam3

I’m finally approaching the last 1.3.x release (better later than nothing).
I’m actually calling it “beta1″ cos I didn’t have much time to deep test it but I’m quite sure that it should not have strange behaviors or quirks in it.

I’ve added complete Flam3 2.8 beta support: new Variations, new env var and new Flame tags.
The Export routine is finally forced to a single code loop and I’ve corrected some small/rare and quite old quirks.

There’s a lot to list but I think it’s faster and better to read below (Changelog) for all the new stuff.

This is an “internal” release.
Download RenderFlam3 1.3.8.6 here (Right Click / Save As): RenderFlam3.zip

Released under GPL License – http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
Credits or donations are not mandatory but very appreciated especially when using “RenderFlam3″ in commercial production.

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RenderFlam3 main purpose is rendering a sequence of Flames using Flam3 to create animations.
It’s an Apophysis script which cycles through the flames in the Title Window,
sets their time field,
sets their advanced animation tags,
saves them all off to a single flame file,
and then creates a bat file (to the same output path).
Executing the bat file will launch flam3-animate and render the animation’s frames; Flam3 will interpolate all the flames.
RenderFlam3 can create Morph, Sheep or Edge animations.

Flam3 supported Variations:
linear, sinusoidal, spherical, swirl, horseshoe, polar, handkerchief, heart, disc, spiral, hyperbolic, diamond, ex, julia, bent, waves, fisheye, popcorn, exponential, power, cosine, rings, fan, blob, pdj, fan2, rings2, eyefish, bubble, cylinder, perspective, noise, julian, juliascope, blur, gaussian_blur, radial_blur, pie, ngon, curl, rectangles, arch, tangent, square, rays, blade, twintrian, cross, disc2, super_shape, flower, conic, parabola.
Flam3 2.8 Beta1 also supports:
bent2, bipolar, boarders, butterfly, cell, cpow, curve, edisc, elliptic, escher, foci, lazysusan, loonie, pre_blur, modulus, oscilloscope, polar2, popcorn2, scry, separation, split, splits, stripes, wedge, wedge_julia, wedge_sph, whorl, waves2.

Preliminary Docs are included in the new archive.
Read the Docs or below for new features.

Changelog
v 1.3.9 beta1 – 22 September 2009
Major exporting code optimization (single code loop)
Dropped support for Flam3 2.7.14 and older versions
Flam3 2.8 beta1 and beta2 support
** plain folder installation only
** support for ‘chaos’ Flame tag (Apophysis’s Xaos)
** support for ‘highlight_power’ Flame tag
** support for ‘earlyclip’ env var (.bat file)
** support for the new Variations: bent2, bipolar, boarders, butterfly, cell, cpow, curve, edisc, elliptic,escher, foci, lazysusan, loonie, pre_blur, modulus, oscilloscope, polar2, popcorn2, scry, separation, split, splits, stripes, wedge, wedge_julia, wedge_sph, whorl, waves2
Single Flame file supported
** creates Sheep Loop only
Support for ‘palette_mode’ Flame tag (Flam3 2.7.18 or newer required)
Support for Flam3 “2.7.19-atomic” experimental version
** plain folder installation only
New Flame checking scheme:
** unsupported Variations are cleared when Flame checking is off
Preview is disabled when Flame checking is off
Fixed some very rare input parameters exceptions
Advanced Flam3 parameters actived by default
Faster Flam3 version checking scheme:
** last known versions are traced by release date
Fixed some minor Flam3 versions evaluation exceptions
Added RenderFlam3_1.3.9_Apo2.07 script
** script version for Apo up to 2.07 version
** all features available but Chaos/Xaos (not supported before Apo 2.8beta)

v 1.3.8.6 – 14 September 2009
“nthreads” parameter was misspelled as “nthread” into the .bat file.

v 1.3.8.5 – 18 June 2009
User defined JPEG quality added
16bit PNG support added
Flames checking is now selectable
Progress display for preliminary Flames checking
Better progress display for Flames saving
BAT file header reports Flam3 and RenderFlam3 used version
BAT file header reports Generation parameters
BAT file is better commented

v 1.3.8.3 – 5 June 2009
Added Global Camera Rotation

v 1.3.8.2 – 2 June 2009
Added support for disc2, conic and parabola Variations
Updated/Better Flam3 version checking scheme: Flam3 versions are now properly checked forward!

v 1.3.8 – 08 November 2008
Corrected a couple of bug regarding selectable Padding XForms writing
Implemented writing of No, FinalXForm + PostXForm, PostXForm or FinalXForm only
Default value changed to 0 = No Padding XForms
The archive’s name is RenderFlam3.zip only

v 1.3.7 – 04 November 2008
More compact/optimized code
Added support for
Flam3 2.7.15 interpolation types: old and older (linear and log already supported)
Flam3 2.7.14 new motion blur features: temporal_filter_type, temporal_filter_width and temporal_filter_exp
Added support for selectable Padding XForms writing implemented in “Flam3 Advanced Parameters” section
Fixed a minor/rare bug regarding FinalXForm handling
Updated/Better Flam3 version checking scheme
it’s now 2.7.xx version-independent both on “plain” and “sub” folder installations

v 1.3.6 – 24 April 2008
Updated Flam3 version checking scheme
corrected one minor Flam3 README file browsing fault
Added support for Flam3 Interpolation Space tag
needs Flam3 2.7.7 or newer
default value is Log
Added support for Flam3 “enable_jpeg_comments” and “enable_png_comments” vars
the proper var is written into the bat file
enable_jpeg_comments set to 1 by default
enable_png_comments set to 1 by default
Little changes to the bat file writing routine
Some minor code clean-up

v 1.3.5 – 19 April 2008
Implemented new Flam3 version checking scheme
Needs Flam3 “README.txt” file
Plain-folder install: automatic version check browsing Flam3 README file
Sub-folder install: supported for 2.7.6 up to 2.7.11 checking folder name
Forcing Flam3 path via “flam3path” variable
see below at the end of the main comment
Secant to Secant2 variation conversion for Flam3 2.7.10 and 2.7.11
Dropped Flam3 2.7.5 support
Supporting only Flam3 2.7.6 and newer
Raw-support for Flam3 2.7.7 and newer

v 1.3.4 – 18 April 2008
Some small code clean-up

v 1.3.3 – 17 April 2008
Apophysis version-independent
SaveFile Dialog fully supported
Added raw support for Flam3 up to version 2.7.11

v 1.3.2 – 7 Nov. 2007
Added Apophysis 2.07

v 1.3.1 – 25 Oct. 2007
Added support for Apophysis 2.06c 3D hack
Added support for Flam3 2.7.6
Camera Zoom minor bugs fixed
Minor updates:
Some code optimizations
Better supersample/oversample check
Bat file: end comment modified
“LoopKF” named added back

v 1.3 – 19 Oct. 2007
Sheep and Edge animations types added.
Support for Camera Angle/Rotation property added (needs Apophysis 2.06c beta or newer).
Supporting only Flam3 2.7.5
Flam3 install check added.
Apo version-independent Variations check against Flam3 supported ones.
Bat files: more advanced options and more comments added.
Two different Script versions
One for Apophysis 2.06c beta , Apophysis 2.06 beta and Apophysis 2.06 beta Z+
and one for Apophysis 2.05 beta 2, Apophysis 2.05 Z+ beta 2 and Apophysis 2.05 Z+ beta 2 C++
Supporting Variation Variables for:
radial_blur, rings2, fan, blob, pdj, perspective,
julian, juliascope, curl, move, ngon, disc2,
rectangles, super_shape, flower, conic, parabola,
pie and split variations.

v. 1.2 beta1 to beta12
RAW saving routine added.
Main/big updates on the whole script (too much to list).

v. 1.1
Saving scheme updated
It’s now completely resolution independent.
Use “Maintain Aspect Ratio” for perfect matching
or Apo’s free scale: may have no perfect matching (depending on flames) but let you scale in no-proportional way.
“Maintain Aspect Ratio” added
“Animation Loop” added
“Copy first flame’s MasterScale/Zoom to each others” added
This is an hard-coded testing option (no user-request displayed)
Change the “szcopy” variable value.
Verbose messages in Script window.

v. 1.0
Initial release.