Apophysis 3D Revealed

There are several ways of rendering images from Apophysis settings. With stereo work I usually have at least two pictures and some design sessions yield more than that as saved parameters waiting rendering time. It’s cool to set it to render then go to bed, or off to some appointment.

On the main panel, under the Flame menu there is an option to Render All Flames. It usually works for me, but some have said it often fails. You might want to try it for simple convenience but there are tricks to how it works that might help.

• It is designed to render all flames that exist within an opened flame file, where you see the named parameter sets in the Main panel file menu.
• When you activate it and provide directions where to save the renders, it goes about its job. If you go with whatever image size is in the parameters be aware that it will read and use the first set, and all other files will be rendered at the same size! If you set a size, all files will render to that adjusted size.
• Just to make sure it has the best chance of working, after saving my various parameters, I will open some other flame file, then navigate back to the one I want to render from and make sure the top file in the list is highlighted and open in the preview. Then I say “go”.
• If the render sizes are large and you have more than one parameter set, it can be puzzling because the information about progress won’t show up for a long time. I haven’t had it crash but I have had it stay blank and unresponsive till all but the last render is taking place.
• If you really want to render a large file, do them one at a time so you can keep track of the activity.

That last tip is because I think there was a problem one time when it was pointing at some other parameter set than the top one. I haven’t tried to duplicate the problem so just in case I try to keep a clean approach to rendering.

It’s great to come back later and find one or several stereo pairs waiting to be viewed!

Some folks have authored scripts for batch renders so in the future I might link to those resources after giving them a tryout.