{"id":7287,"date":"2023-10-21T11:41:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T09:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.overwhale.com\/?p=7287"},"modified":"2023-10-21T11:41:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T09:41:32","slug":"jwildfire-8-20-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.overwhale.com\/?p=7287","title":{"rendered":"JWildfire 8.20 released"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>JWildfire 8.20 is now available at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1445310\/JWildfire\" target=\"_blank\">Steam<\/a> and the offical <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.andreas-maschke.com\/?page_id=351\" target=\"_blank\">JWildfire site<\/a> (the App Store version will come later).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most important change: GPU rendering now also works on NVIDIA 4xxx devices \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Complete list of changes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-upgraded the GPU render to CUDA 11.8, works also on NVIDIA 4xxx GPU&#8217;s now<br>-new &#8220;Underwater&#8221;-random-flame-generator, most generated flames also work well with the GPU render<br>-new &#8220;RANDOM_BG_COLOR&#8221;-mutation, makes it easy to play with different backgrounds for &#8220;Underwater&#8221;-flames<br>-fixed a bug in the GPU-implementation of &#8220;loonie2&#8221;<br>-added a non-ugly flame for selftest of the gpu render (selftest.bat in the FARenderJWF-folder)<br>-adjusted the variation-type of many variations, leading to better random-flames in some cases<br>-slightly improved the quality of various random-flame-generators<br>-when using GPU render, automatically convert background-gradients to an average background color (because GPU render currently only supports a single background color)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JWildfire 8.20 is now available at Steam and the offical JWildfire site (the App Store version will come later). Most important change: GPU rendering now also works on NVIDIA 4xxx devices \ud83d\ude42 Complete list of changes: -upgraded the GPU render to CUDA 11.8, works also on NVIDIA 4xxx GPU&#8217;s now-new &#8220;Underwater&#8221;-random-flame-generator, most generated flames also work well with the GPU render-new &#8220;RANDOM_BG_COLOR&#8221;-mutation, makes it easy to play with different backgrounds for &#8220;Underwater&#8221;-flames-fixed a bug in the GPU-implementation of &#8220;loonie2&#8221;-added a non-ugly flame for selftest of the gpu render (selftest.bat in the FARenderJWF-folder)-adjusted the variation-type of many variations, leading to better random-flames in some cases-slightly improved the quality of various random-flame-generators-when using GPU render, automatically convert background-gradients to an average background color (because GPU render currently only supports a single background color)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gpu-render","category-jwildfire","category-jwildfire-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.overwhale.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.overwhale.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.overwhale.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.overwhale.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.overwhale.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.overwhale.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7288,"href":"https:\/\/blog.overwhale.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7287\/revisions\/7288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.overwhale.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.overwhale.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.overwhale.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}