Hello Frederik!
I've recently gotten myself a new computer, and with that, I was sadly forced to "upgrade" to Windows 11.
I've noticed that the UI is a complete mess on this version of Windows, as the input fields are all sorts of jacked up.
There's basically zero visual clarity, and it's making it very difficult to work with the software.
I've uploaded two screenshots, the first
Okay, I have a couple of minor suggestions for UltraFractal. These are some pretty personal choices, but I think that everyone can benefit from them.
1: Allow "Always compress parameters" as an option.
Pretty simple, instead of just having the "Compress parameter sets larger than 2 kb", I'd like an option to "Always compress parameter sets".
The reason is because it's much neater to
Download link can be found on the deviantART page for the pack: https://www.deviantart.com/outsidefate/art/OutsideFate-s-Texture-Pack-4-For-UltraFractal-1247734566
Just press the "Free Download" button in the bottom left corner of the preview picture!
Well, it's that time again!! Time for a new texture pack from yours truly!! In this pack, you'll find 73 textures, split up in three
I have very little experience, and I'd love to have some tips and tricks on creating a function object class to parse individual function as arguments in Ultra Fractal. Alternatively, a function parser? I'd love to know your feedback here.
I've also noticed one of my posts was flagged as spam. Personally, I have no clue what happened, but if I did something wrong, then I take full responsibil
Has anyone had experience using Ultra Fractal in Windows 11? I would like to know if there are any glitches before I switch over to Windows 11. Margaret/Ampelosa
Since my last post in February 2024,
https://www.ultrafractal.com/forum/index.php?u=/topic/919/gradient-coloring-plug-ins
I’ve been experimenting, seeing what seems worthwhile and what seems unnecessary. The plug-in successor to “Color by Distance” is “Coloring” in jlb.ulb.
The Coloring function on the Coloring tab is called by Ultra Fractal after each ite
I've been wanting to make my own gradients from images but I can't for the life of me figure it out. Is there a tutorial I simply keep missing in my search?
It is not currently possible to upload new formulas to the database.
When I try to do so, I'm directed to this page:
https://formulas.ultrafractal.com/error.htm
Also, it is not possible to update public formulas via File > Update Public Formulas. The error message is "IOSHandler value is not valid."
In addition, when accessing the formula section of the site, some people are get
A power outage interrupted my render job.
After 6 hours of rendering, It stopped at frame 314 of 480 total PNG frames.
When the power was restored the render began again at frame 1. There was no option to restart at frame 314.
If there were a "Frame Range" option I could have restarted at frame 314.
Phillip
posted Aug 28 '23 at 8:10 pm
Hello,
I've seen this several times now with different fractals, and I don't know what causes it, but sometimes multi-layer fractals are offset. This problem seems to go away when activating anti-aliasing in the working window. Here's a screenshot:
It seems to be always exactly 1 pixel along the y-axis of the monitor, no matter the rotation of the fractal. And it also remains 1 pixe
I can't paste some numbers into the layer's location fields, and get this cute error:
It seems to be related to the length. If the coordinate is small, like double precision-small, it pastes fine. If it's 2000 or 1000 digits long, it's also fine. If it's 500 or 625 digits long, then I get this error. These are not exact bounds, they are just some of the lengths I tried and failed.
I
Hello,
I recently noticed quite a few instances of my monitor staying on the entire night. This morning I used "powercfg /requests" and it showed UF blocking the monitor from turning off:
C:\Windows\system32>powercfg /requests
DISPLAY:
Keine.
SYSTEM:
[PROCESS] \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Program Files\Ultra Fractal 6\Uf6.exe
AWAYMODE:
Keine.
I thought it might be due to the browsing wind
I don't know about you guys, but I constantly get this pop-up when I try to make print size renders.
The reason this happens to me is because I typically render without AA, as the built-in AA in UltraFractal has a tendency of giving me very suboptimal results (or just being way too slow compared to rendering without AA and downsampling) in my specific use case, so I just do a raw render and d
I'm trying to escape Windows/Microsoft but UF 6 is one of the few programs keeping me on Windows. 😭
Urs
posted Sep 30 '18 at 5:53 pm
Hi, after using only notebooks for over a decade, I am thinking about getting a (Windows) desktop PC. Not being much of a gamer, my primary concern with performance is deep-zooming the Mandelbrot set in UF. Does anybody have a suggestion for this, or even a benchmark computed on their machine?
I've read Frederik suggesting an i7. Is UF specifically tailored to Intel? I never read anything abo
I have postet once a distance algo for outside, now i try to realize a inside algo too.
I got the formula from a website but it doesn’t work.
I’m probably making a very stupid mistake that I just can’t see.
I can also provide code, but only in CP script language.
Has somebody a working distance algo for inside?
In some of my formulas I didn't put in a version parameter and I want to change the formula without breaking old fractals.
If I had included something like
int param version
caption = "Version"
default = 240330
visible = @version < 240330
endparam
then I could have used code like
if @version <= 240330
; old stuff
else
; new stuff
So I recently began experimenting with plug-ins for the first time, and I think I got the basics down except for one thing..
The flower plug-ins that I know do exist can't be found when I want to change the Mandelbrot forumla.
So they're here, shown as available in the file browser for plug-ins.
But then...
Not there when I try to find them after applying the Plug-in
Edit: Nvm I aint worried about it.
Eric B
posted Mar 2 at 12:03 am
Dint
posted Aug 2 '19 at 12:29 am
I went through the documentation but I am not sure I am understanding correctly.
My question is pretty simple.
If I have a formula file
an Inside COloring file
and OUtside Coloring file
Can I pass a parameter on the formula file to the coloring file... specifically the Color density?
Thank you for your help in advance!
The Preferences window cannot be re-sized. With my chosen larger font size, not all the content is visible. Here's an example:
rgames
posted Feb 5 '24 at 10:22 pm
Hi - I'm trying to do some zooms and I'm getting a lot of "sparklies" in areas where there's lots of detail (hopefully that descriptor makes sense). Adjusting the anti-aliasing parameters help a bit but the sparklies never really go away. Depth 2 or 3 seems to have the most effect but the render times become extremely long. Threshold of 0 vs. 0.1 vs 0.2 doesn't seem to have much effect. I've
When browsing for formulas & etc., UF shows thumbnails to help the user choose. Thumbnails would also be helpful when choosing a gradient from a .ugr file.
I was just working with the distance estimation algorithms and also created a few for some of my own fractals.
The idea came up that it might be possible to significantly increase the calculation speed using a distance estimation method, especially when high anti-aliasing is used.
The distance is particularly accurate when you are near the boundary. You could, for example, use a 9x9 anti-al
Would someone have an example of a neg mandel param similar to those of Dan Wills? I have only just come across these and woud like to play with them.
I am struggling to implement automatic differentiation in a plug-in library... can anybody help? No one has ever tried to add it at all, and it is a pain to find the derivative or the integral by hand.
Dint
posted May 9 '23 at 9:52 pm
I have an older INtel i7 computer I don't use anymore because I replaced it with newer one. I would like to use the old I7 computer as a server. To my understanding. THere is a way to make the older computer into a Server. Reading the instructions I am trying to understand some things.
Does having the server mean that all computation runs on the server all computers running server or is
JVYV
posted Dec 27 '17 at 12:49 pm
Hi Frederik,
When using UF6 (and the previous versions also) my computers CPU (Intel I5 with 4 cores) is working at 100 % while my GPU (NVIDIA GeForce GTX670) is doing ... right ... nothing at all.
There are softwares - I'm refering to "SETI@home" (*) - that are doing math calculations and are using not only the CPU's in your PC but also the GPU as you can see on the diagram below and th
Imran
posted Dec 16 '24 at 11:44 am
Oh boi! Finally managed to get back to "ultrafractaling" after some six years. Sucks to be me. lol
Anyways, lets hope life doesn't happen again. Thank you so much for making this awesome software, both from the artistic point of view as well as a software/app. I will try to eat your brains with so many questions and feature requests (since 2003~)... (grump-gasm intensifying).
My last pos
