Glad I watched both of these. I just started using apophysis but mainly wanted it to make fractal animations for video and I have done one already which is on my channel. I was thrilled to find out about the settings to make it faster since I have a quad core processor. I hope soon to move up to a six core and also max out the memory my motherboard will support which is 16gb. :)
I usually render them at a low quality (1000) to see if they look okay, and then render them at quality 12000 with an oversample of ~5 at 1920x1200 pixels. Takes some time, even on a good fast quad core machine...
I saw you have GIMP so I downloaded that so I could see this fractal I messed around with. Got it so the background is black & I can see it but now how do I apply it as my desktop? When I go into my control panel and try to bring it up, it doesn't show up when I select to find something off my desktop(I saved the Gimp version of the fractal with the black background).
@EverythingisFire What filetype did you save the image as? On Windows Vista, I believe desktop wallpapers have to be .jpg, .bmp, or there might be another one that works, but I'm pretty sure .png doesn't work.
Ah, yeah. I googled it soon after cause I wanted my wallpaper haha. It was saved as whatever GIMP saves it to (x..something?). I didn't realize you could change it to .gif, .jpg etc. Thanks!
me again. whats the difference between ctrl+r (render) and ctrl-x (export flame)??
also, ive got a DualCore Intel Pentium E5400,1700 MHz (8.5 x 200) with multithreading tuned on and both cpu at 100% during a render (simple fractal, seeminglyless complex than yours @ 4000 qual and 1600x1200 resolution) and it said it takes 40mins :S does this sound normal?
@nyrbsamoht Apparently the export command used an external program (flam3) to render the fractal, rather than using Apophysis' built in renderer. I haven't played with that much though.
Your 1600x1200 render is almost twice as big as mine, which was only 1280x800. Thus the render time should be at least doubled. Plus certain variations take longer to render even if they don't appear any more complex than other variations. 40 minutes doesn't sound unreasonable to me.
@NuMetal92 If you have 4 cores, you should set the multithreading to 4. There's one "thread" running on each core. Basically each of the threads is rendering part of the fractal, and they are all running at the same time since they're each on a different core. So theoretically, you should be able to render a fractal about 4 times faster than someone with a single-core processor.
It could be confusing since the numbers start at 2, but the "Off" option means 1 thread/core.
@NuMetal92 I'm not an expert at this stuff, but apparently some processors can support 2 threads per core (for example, using Intel's "Hyper-Threading" technology). According to Intel's website, the Core i7 is such a processor, so I guess you actually could set the multithreading to 8!
great help! thanks
UmmNathan 4 months ago
Thank you so much ! I'm from Argentina, it was a little difficult for me understand the video, but finally i could. Sorry for my bad english ! :D
THANK YOU ! THANK YOU ! THANK YOU !
Aguuztina 11 months ago
Glad I watched both of these. I just started using apophysis but mainly wanted it to make fractal animations for video and I have done one already which is on my channel. I was thrilled to find out about the settings to make it faster since I have a quad core processor. I hope soon to move up to a six core and also max out the memory my motherboard will support which is 16gb. :)
Thanks again for 2 great video tutorials. :)
- Heidi
blackcat2enterprises 11 months ago
I usually render them at a low quality (1000) to see if they look okay, and then render them at quality 12000 with an oversample of ~5 at 1920x1200 pixels. Takes some time, even on a good fast quad core machine...
cbader92 1 year ago
I saw you have GIMP so I downloaded that so I could see this fractal I messed around with. Got it so the background is black & I can see it but now how do I apply it as my desktop? When I go into my control panel and try to bring it up, it doesn't show up when I select to find something off my desktop(I saved the Gimp version of the fractal with the black background).
EverythingisFire 1 year ago
@EverythingisFire What filetype did you save the image as? On Windows Vista, I believe desktop wallpapers have to be .jpg, .bmp, or there might be another one that works, but I'm pretty sure .png doesn't work.
monsoonami 1 year ago
@monsoonami
Ah, yeah. I googled it soon after cause I wanted my wallpaper haha. It was saved as whatever GIMP saves it to (x..something?). I didn't realize you could change it to .gif, .jpg etc. Thanks!
EverythingisFire 1 year ago
This Program is Amazing. Monsoonami your the best <3 I have learned tons from your channel :)
LordofAqua 1 year ago
do you know how to make animations?
astralmarmoset 1 year ago
@astralmarmoset I think I made one once, but I forget how.
monsoonami 1 year ago
me again. whats the difference between ctrl+r (render) and ctrl-x (export flame)??
also, ive got a DualCore Intel Pentium E5400,1700 MHz (8.5 x 200) with multithreading tuned on and both cpu at 100% during a render (simple fractal, seeminglyless complex than yours @ 4000 qual and 1600x1200 resolution) and it said it takes 40mins :S does this sound normal?
nyrbsamoht 1 year ago
@nyrbsamoht Apparently the export command used an external program (flam3) to render the fractal, rather than using Apophysis' built in renderer. I haven't played with that much though.
Your 1600x1200 render is almost twice as big as mine, which was only 1280x800. Thus the render time should be at least doubled. Plus certain variations take longer to render even if they don't appear any more complex than other variations. 40 minutes doesn't sound unreasonable to me.
monsoonami 1 year ago
@nyrbsamoht I had one that took 3 hours, 10 seconds. Don't complain
DarkWolfe117 3 months ago
Looks good. I'm just learning fractals, man they're useful...
Thanx for posting!
kimo921 1 year ago
so i have an i7 with 4 cores, so should i put it on 4 or 8?
NuMetal92 1 year ago
@NuMetal92
The better choice would be 4.
Marsl2007 1 year ago
@NuMetal92 If you have 4 cores, you should set the multithreading to 4. There's one "thread" running on each core. Basically each of the threads is rendering part of the fractal, and they are all running at the same time since they're each on a different core. So theoretically, you should be able to render a fractal about 4 times faster than someone with a single-core processor.
It could be confusing since the numbers start at 2, but the "Off" option means 1 thread/core.
monsoonami 1 year ago
@monsoonami so wouldn't that mean that the "8" level is for 8 cores? however the fastest CPU i know is the i7-980 with 6 cores? lol
NuMetal92 1 year ago
@NuMetal92 I'm not an expert at this stuff, but apparently some processors can support 2 threads per core (for example, using Intel's "Hyper-Threading" technology). According to Intel's website, the Core i7 is such a processor, so I guess you actually could set the multithreading to 8!
monsoonami 1 year ago