The Official JWildfire Blog

Hello friends,
I wish you all a Merry Christmas and have prepared a little gift for you, the JWildfire V0.60 Xmas edition 🙂 It contains a really innovation which allows you to include arbitrary text (with an arbitrary font) into your fractals… which may even help to create surprisingly cool Christmas cards :D. Some more really cool variations by other authors are included as well.
So have fun, have some relaxing hollidays, and the best to your family and your friends 🙂

Complete list of changes:
– new “text_wf” variation for integrating arbitrary text objects with your fractals
– “SuperShape3D” variation by David Young
– “xtrb” variation by Xyrus02
– new type “Font” for variation ressources (allows for example to pick up the desired font for “text_wf” variation from a list)
– many enhancements and layout changes to the dancing flames module (still work in progress)
– improved the behaviour and performance of the mouse view editing

You can download the new version as always here 🙂

Andreas

Just released JWildfire V0.59.

This time the new release has not really a lot of new features… but one new striking one: the long awaited view editing mode is now available 🙂 You can now just drag, rotate and zoom your fractal the way it should have been working from the first day 😉
This mode is now the default editing mode, it works as follows:
– left mouse button: drag the fractal (“CentreX” and “CentreY”)
– right mouse button: rotate (“Roll”) the fractal
– middle mouse button/mouse wheel: zoom (“Pixels per unit”) the fractal

Complete list of changes:
– new interactive view editing mode (move, rotate, zoom)
– color and color symmetry does also affect the new fract_* family of variations
– lots of internal refactoring regarding the dancing flames editor (does not affect current state of features but makes it more easy to add new features soon)

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