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Stagger env var is another Flam3 2.8 new feature.
It permits to control how the Transforms are interpolated during the animation; every designer can use this feature to customize the animation motions.
It applies to all animation modes created by Flam3: Sheep (Loop), Edge and Morph ones.

Erik Reckase explains it this way: “Setting stagger to 0 means the same as current behaviour. stagger=1 means that each xform will interpolate one at a time instead of simultaneously. stagger=0.5 means that the second xform will start halfway through the interpolation of the first xform, and so on.” and also “Affects simultaneity of xform interpolation during genome interpolation. Represents how ‘separate’ the xforms are interpolated. Set to 1 for each xform to be interpolated individually, fractions control interpolation overlap.”

Setting stagger to 0 is like not having it at all. The Transforms are in both cases interpolated in the old Flam3 2.7.xx way.

I’ve prepared 4 small clips that visually explain the ‘stagger’ env var usage.
The first two clips represent what previously said about stagger=0 and no stagger usage: the result is the same!

Morph animation – stagger OFF

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Render Flam3 low-quality preview of the new Global Camera Rotation feature

I’ve got finally had some free cpu to render a short preview sequence out of the 12 Temper those Fiery Particles designs.
Here it is; the final sequence will be a bit longer (currently working on it).
Hope you’ll like it.

Upcoming RenderFlam3 1.3.6 example.

Rendered in low quality (Samples=50) using Flam3 just to give a preview of the Apophysis Script’s results.

Complete Render Flam3 posts archive: Search about Render Flam3

RenderFlam3 1.3.1 upcoming version example: simple Camera Angle/Zoom and Color Cycle sequence.

Rendered in low quality (Samples=50) just to give a preview of the script’s reults.

Two new small previews vids created using RenderFlam3 Step script.

Tdwnc is the first sequence using Variation’s Variables morphing; the result is quite good, the main problem here is due to Spline interpolation that shifts frames motion after KeyFrame temporal position.
I’ll render the same sequence, as soon as possible, using the Linear interpolation that could cure the shift probelm but it’d provide les smooth motion.

Willpower sequence preview rendered using RenderFlam3 Step Apophysis script; low quality renderind done using Samples=50.

The two original Willpower design are available here: Willpower and Willpower 2

I found that my three “RenderFlam3 Step” Script sample vids are spreading around the net. Funny enough.
Thanks everyone for their support!

They can be found on SUMO.tv too
RenderFlam3 Step test 1, RenderFlam3 Step test 2 and Whirling Test.

Note: they’re not properly credited, this is a quite common behaviour at that site as far as I can read in other videos comments.