Hello

Hi I am new to the forum & new to Ultra Fractal. I havn't done fractals for a few years & originally used Apophysis but I am loving learning what UF can do.
I have a quick question. I know this can be done for Apophysis though must admit have forgotten how to do it but can gradients be created from outside of UF & used within UF. If so is there a tutorial?
Many thanks Anne

Hi Anne,

There is not much scope for creating gradients outside UF, I'm afraid, and no tutorials that I am aware of.

You can, of course, use Apophysis gradients in UF - just copy the .UGR files straight to your UF Gradients folder. They have 400 colour nodes, though, so are a bit complex but they have their uses. In conjuction with this idea you can use a utility called ApoMap - this can create an Apo style gradient from any image you like so if there is something with a colour scheme you like this route can help you bring in the gradient to UF.

Other than that the only other thing I know of is a site called "Newton's Color Wheel by T. Ford". This runs a script of some kind where you can tinker with the settings to generate various types of gradient that you can then paste into UF's gradient editor. Some nice Complementary or Analogous colours can be generated, for instance.

PS. I can't give you the link to the Newton site because I tried this reply yesterday and my efforts were deleted without warning because the system thought I was spamming. It could only have been that link so I'm not risking it again today. You can Google the site using the title above. As far as I know it is perfectly safe to use, if a bit complicated.

Hope this helps anyway.

Hi Chris

Thanks for this. I suspected this may be the case.

I wasn't aware Apophysis gradients could be copied over so will give that a go & check out Apomap, I have heard of that before but not looked into it.

The Newton site sounds interesting, I'll look it up, might be the kind of thing you intend to spend 5 mins on & several hours later you are still tinkering

Much appreciate the info
Anne