The Official JWildfire Blog

Just released JWildfire V0.69.

The major new feature is the possibility to integrate external gradients (as *.ugr or *.map files) into the (enhanced) gradient library. (A gradient editor for creating new gradients or editing gradients from the library is already under construction, but not visible in this release yet.)

Another nice feature is the ability to create a script from any flame in the editor. Those scripts reproduce the source-flame, but contain already code to create mutations. (This code is deactivated per default, but you have just to remove the comment-chars to activate it selectively.)

Complete list of changes:

• support for for storing external gradients (in the formats *.ugr and *.map) into an external folder, the contents of those folder (inclusnig subfolders) is integrated into the gradient library
• path for external gradient in the Preferences
• create scripts from any existing flame in the script editor, those script either create a new flame (if no one is selected) or overwrite the the currently selected flame
• new “Sierpinsky”-random-flame-generator
• new “Simple tiling” random flame generator (was also improved after ALPHA)
• new “twoface” variation
• new “fourth” variation by guagapunyaimel
• new variations “blocky”, “bubble2”, “mcarpet”, “octagon” and “splitbrdr” by FracFx
• improved the “Bubble3D” random flame generator
• moved the gradient library to a slightly larger tab
• new “baseline”-parameter in the “text-wf”-variation to adjust baseline in more difficult font manually
• started to create an integrated gradient editor, but its not visible yet
• one more image for the launcher created by Lorant Buntye
• removed the “extended” parameter from the truchet variation because it caused too many crashes
• removed the dialog to ask if you really want to remove a thumbnail from the thumnail ribbon
• FIXED: add only one thumbnail after invoking the “new form scratch” function
• FIXED: allow only the creation of scripts if a user path was specified in the Preferences
• FIXED: the script-treeview was something not updated right after inserting a new script
• FIXED: updated the launcher to work with newest Java update (Java 7 Update 21)

Just click the “Random flames” button to start playing around and have fun 🙂

Just released JWildfire V0.68.

Many small changes were made as well one major one: the scripting-tab was complety re-implemented.

Complete list of changes:

• re-implemented the script-tab: scripts are now maintained in a folder-like structure. There are two main folders: “Built-in scripts” (examples) and “Your scripts”. The latter points to an arbitrary folder on your harddisc and holds your own scripts. You can easily create and copy scripts either using the new functions in JWildfire or by just copying/creating them manually. Additionally, scripts now always contain of two files: the description (plain text) and the code (Java code)
• added most of the recent scripts from the JWildfire Open Group as examples
• new path for scripts in the Preferences editor, moved the old script path (for the animation editor) into a new “Misc” category
• added the possibility to delete flame files from within the file dialog
• added (again) separate buttons for moving, rotating and scaling of triangles (but using the move button you still have the possibility to rotate with the right mouse button and to scale with the middle mouse button)
• triangle editing mode is now the default mode
• added a small buttons in the variations tab which points to the visual variation guide created by Georg Carlson
• added remove-buttons for flame-thumbnails in the thumbnail ribbon
• possibility to cancel the playback (preview rendering) of movies in the movie editor
• possibility to edit flame- and transform names (where transform names now also are displayed as well)
• unified column layout for main transforms-table and relative-weights-table
• added a new ADD_VARIATION mutation style in the MutgaGen module
• improved controls for accessing flames in the MutaGen module
• new “target” variation by Michael Faber
• adding a thumbnail for the flames imported from MutaGen
• removed the RANDOM_FLAME-mutation-subtype from the ALL-mutation-type
• updated the link to the new JWildfire Open Group in the welcome-screen

Just click the “Random flames” button to start playing around and have fun 🙂