The Official JWildfire Blog

Just released JWildfire V1.50. This time it is a really BIG update, and even more BIG hugs go to my family, which gives me the power to make it possible. 🙂

There are so many changes in this release, it is hard to name them all. So I just want to introduce my favourite ones:

• motion blur for animations
• new concept of random-movie-generators
• my favourite “hexes” and “crackle”-variations come now with DC-support
• new camera controls to create really new kind of perspectives/fractals
• 5 short tutorials from Naomi Richmond which you can find at the official tutorial section

Complete list of changes:

• there were really lots of changes in the Easy Movie Maker:
  • new concept of random-movie-generators (which create both random flames and random motion)
  • new random-movie-generators:
    • “Rotating Mandelbrots”
    • “Transforming Duckies”
    • “Transforming Bubbles”
  • motion blur, which is enabled by default and can even be used to render interesting/”dynamic” still images
  • new concept of “morph-types”, the old behaviour is now called MORPH, and there is now a new morph type called FADE which uses layerz to fade one flame into another
  • added the possibility to replace a movie-part with the current flame in the editor
  • some new simple scripts
  • render button for instantly creating a preview-render in high quality
  • support for upto 12 of global- and xform-scripts
  • movie ribbon with movie-preview, allows to switch between different movies at any time (same concept as for flames in the amin editor)
  • realtime-preview of animation-scripts in the Easy Movie Maker (you may even change scripts while showing the preview)
  • dramatically increased the speed of evaluating motion curves
  • motions in the Easy Movie Maker now respect the FPS setting (rather than calculating the speed by the total number of frames)
  • removed *_NEG animation-scripts, refactoring of the Easy Movie Maker
• additional camera-controls (x-, y- and z-position), this makes it possible to create really “different” images!
• new “dc_hexes_wf” variation, which is derived from the well-known “hexes”-variation, but uses Voronoi-distance to apply additional color-information
• new “dc_crackle_wf variation, which is derived from the well-known “crackle”-variation, but uses Voronoi-distance to apply additional color-information
• new SIDE_BY_SIDE_FULL-preview-mode for stereo3d images (uses larger preview area)
• new option to easily swap sides in stereo3d-rendering
• 5 new “What does this button do?”-tutorials from Naomi Richmond
• 5 new images from Craig Bak for the launcher
• improved the layout of the ancient motion-curve-editing-dialog
• completely removed SWF-related capabilities from JWildfire, completely removed all rendering-capabilities from the Easy Movie Maker
• support for saving flames with multiple motion-curves for the same flame-property
• realtime-quality is now a floating-point-value. So you have more level of control on very old/slow machines
• caption of layerz is now stored/restored correctly
• bugfix in the checks variation, can actually produce nice patterns now
• fixed a problem regarding the re-saving of movies from older version
• stepped back to Java 6 because of problems with Java 7 on the Mac platform

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