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Flame Painter

TaozTaoz Posts: 9,971
edited May 2013 in The Commons

Nice little program, [strike]50% off (today only)[/strike] (deal gone now but may be back later)

http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/flame-painter

I recall I had a program (freeware I think) some years ago which could do something similar, not by using the mouse though but by changing different settings which generated some random pictures. Don't recall what the program was called though - does anyone know of such a program?

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  • Proxima ShiningProxima Shining Posts: 969
    edited December 1969

    Thanks for the tip. I bought it. It looks like a cool program, and at that price...

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,082
    edited December 1969

    Taozen said:
    Nice little program, 50% off (today only)

    http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/flame-painter

    I recall I had a program (freeware I think) some years ago which could do something similar, not by using the mouse though but by changing different settings which generated some random pictures. Don't recall what the program was called though - does anyone know of such a program?


    I just picked it up as well.

    You MIGHT be thinking of the old Particle Illusions SE Freeware edition (now discontinued) or the Particles LSL Generator http://particles-lsl-generator.bashora.com/ , but there were a couple of those out there. That said, there are several Filter Forge filters that do similar things, but none with the level of control that this allows. Magic Particles is a particularly nice one.

    (Man, we are SO spoiled these days. I haven't picked up acrylics in years...)

  • kimhkimh Posts: 389
    edited December 1969

    I also picked it up...it looks really cool and will come in handy and the price is definitely right :-) Thanks

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 9,971
    edited May 2013

    Cybersox13 said:
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    You MIGHT be thinking of the old Particle Illusions SE Freeware edition (now discontinued) or the Particles LSL Generator http://particles-lsl-generator.bashora.com/ , but there were a couple of those out there. That said, there are several Filter Forge filters that do similar things, but none with the level of control that this allows. Magic Particles is a particularly nice one.

    I hardly recall anything about the program. I used some of the pictures as background on the menu system on a series of video CDs I made back then (2001 I can see from the file dates). It's actually possible that the program was part of the CD Menu Creation program I used but I'm not sure. Here's one of the menu's:

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  • JennKJennK Posts: 834
    edited December 1969

    I picked it up as well. It's going to come in handy thanks for the tip.

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 9,971
    edited December 1969

    Here's another one I managed to find among the menu files - it was named menu3.bal (an internal format the menu program used I guess) but is actually a .png. Looks terrible, it appears that the menu program converted the images to 256 color png. I know they looked much better when I created them so I think they must have been made with a different program.

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  • SickleYieldSickleYield Posts: 7,644
    edited December 1969

    I'll bite. Sometimes for my fantasy renders Gimp's alpha to logo glows do fail. ;)

  • alexanderstefanov70alexanderstefanov70 Posts: 4
    edited December 1969

    I bought it too - mainly because they are releasing a new version 2.0 and 1.7 users will have some nice discount :P
    I love how easy it is to achieve showy results.

  • Pixel8tedPixel8ted Posts: 593
    edited December 1969

    Taozen said:
    Nice little program, 50% off (today only)

    http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/flame-painter

    I recall I had a program (freeware I think) some years ago which could do something similar, not by using the mouse though but by changing different settings which generated some random pictures. Don't recall what the program was called though - does anyone know of such a program?

    Apophysis. I have this one. It is really cool.

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/apophysis7x/

    Some resources like gradients and flame plug ins can be found here:

    http://fractal-resources.deviantart.com/favourites/

    http://ffey.deviantart.com/art/apoplugin-Sintrange-245146228?q=gallery:Apophysis-Plugins/24607713&qo=2

    FAQ:

    http://apophysis.deviantart.com/journal/Apophysis-F-A-Q-223002904

    A couple of random tutorials...lots of them on the net. :) :

    http://zibags.deviantart.com/art/Apophysis-7x-tutorial-298414757

    http://ea1701.wordpress.com/tag/apophysis-7x-tutorial/

  • Proxima ShiningProxima Shining Posts: 969
    edited December 1969

    Also, the author has several other nice free tools on his website (under Experiments I think), which are worthy to check, if only for fun.

  • Pixel8tedPixel8ted Posts: 593
    edited May 2013

    I like rendering them over transparency so I can use Photoshop blend modes to blend them in together and make interesting desktop backgrounds for myself.

    Bubbles...make nice water bubbles...small selected area screen grab example.

    Throw in a some gradient mapping and you can get some more interesting results when using layers and blend modes...another small selected area for an example.

    *Note: Several flames rendered then composited on their own layers make up the bubbles...same can be said of the second image.

    small-example-forum.jpg
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    bubbles-ex-forum.jpg
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  • TaozTaoz Posts: 9,971
    edited December 1969

    Pixel8ted said:
    Taozen said:
    Nice little program, 50% off (today only)

    http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/flame-painter

    I recall I had a program (freeware I think) some years ago which could do something similar, not by using the mouse though but by changing different settings which generated some random pictures. Don't recall what the program was called though - does anyone know of such a program?

    Apophysis. I have this one. It is really cool.

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/apophysis7x/

    Thanks, looks interesting! :)

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,082
    edited December 1969

    Pixel8ted said:
    I like rendering them over transparency so I can use Photoshop blend modes to blend them in together and make interesting desktop backgrounds for myself.

    Bubbles...make nice water bubbles...small selected area screen grab example.

    Throw in a some gradient mapping and you can get some more interesting results when using layers and blend modes...another small selected area for an example.

    *Note: Several flames rendered then composited on their own layers make up the bubbles...same can be said of the second image.


    Nice! But between picking up this, a huge pile of goodies in the Zombie sale over at Rendo AND DAZ 4.6 and the new plugins hitting today, I don't know what to experiment with first. :ohh:
  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,066
    edited December 1969

    This is very interesting... AND has a Mac version... something you don't see every day! Thanks.

  • Proxima ShiningProxima Shining Posts: 969
    edited December 1969

    alexanderstefanov70 said:
    I bought it too - mainly because they are releasing a new version 2.0 and 1.7 users will have some nice discount :P
    I love how easy it is to achieve showy results.

    Version 2.0 was released today, discount coupons were sent per e-mail.

  • alexanderstefanov70alexanderstefanov70 Posts: 4
    edited December 1969

    Proxima Shining said:

    Version 2.0 was released today, discount coupons were sent per e-mail.

    I just updated to 2.05 version and it looks quite cool. Editable vector layers option is something really unique in this type of painting software.

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