FLAM3 for SideFX Houdini v1.3.50

H20.x and H19.x only

• This is a Limited Commercial Houdini Indie license release.
• For some reasons SideFX Orbolt stopped working for this asset and I am not able to convert this into a Studio license anymore.
• If you need a Commercial Studio license download the latest available, version: v1.3.07

• New: Added a button in each affine's tab to copy and paste from/to the pre or post affine values in the same iterator.
• New: Added a button in each FF affine's tab to copy and paste from/to the FF pre or FF post affine values.
• Fix: Updated the about box FLAM3H website's icon to match the one used in the website homepage.
• Fix: The iterator active buttons have been swapped with a geometry data prm's action button to save one parameter.
• Fix: Fixed a few typo in some of the UI folder names.
• Updated HDA documentation.

FLAM3 for SideFX Houdini v1.3.45

H20.x and H19.x only

• This is a Limited Commercial Houdini Indie license release.
• For some reasons SideFX Orbolt stopped working for this asset and I am not able to convert this into a Studio license anymore.
• If you need a Commercial Studio license download the latest available, version: v1.3.07

• Fix: When using the mini-menu in the SYS tab to quickly change focus to a desired iterator multi-parameter tab number, it will now bring you back to the FLAME Tab if the focus were somewhere else.
• Fix: version number in the HDA about tab is now correct.
• Updated HDA documentation.

FLAM3 for SideFX Houdini v1.3.44

H20.x and H19.x only

• This is a Limited Commercial Houdini Indie license release.
• For some reasons SideFX Orbolt stopped working for this asset and I am not able to convert this into a Studio license anymore.
• If you need a Commercial Studio license download the latest available, version: v1.3.07

• New: Added a mini-menu in the SYS tab to quickly change focus to a desired multi-parameter tab number.
• New: the SYS Tag size menu is now turned into a mini-menu to save a bit of space.
• Fix: When "use iter on Load" value is greater than the global iteration value it wont force a re-cook when switched ON.
• Updated HDA documentation.

FLAM3 for SideFX Houdini v1.3.40

H20.x and H19.x only

• This is a Limited Commercial Houdini Indie license release.
• For some reasons SideFX Orbolt stopped working for this asset and I am not able to convert this into a Studio license anymore.
• If you need a Commercial Studio license download the latest available, version: v1.3.07

• New: Added reset action script button to the preferences tab viewport particle size parameter.
• New: Flash messages are now printed into multiple network editors instead of only inside the main one.
• Fix: The about FLAM3H tab is now set to be initially open instead of closed/collapsed.
• Python code cleanup.
• Updated HDA documentation.

FLAM3 for SideFX Houdini v1.3.37

H20.x and H19.x only

• This is a Limited Commercial Houdini Indie license release.
• For some reasons SideFX Orbolt stopped working for this asset and I am not able to convert this into a Studio license anymore.
• If you need a Commercial Studio license download the latest available, version: v1.3.07

• New: Added option inside the CP tab to keep the HSV values untouched after loading a palette preset.
• Fix: When saving a Flame out with "use Fractorium paramtetric prm names" option ON the exported ColorSpeed value was wrong resulting in different colors when loaded inside Fractorium. It is now fixed.
• Python code cleanup.
• Updated HDA documentation.

FLAM3 for SideFX Houdini v1.3.35

H20.x and H19.x only

• This is a Limited Commercial Houdini Indie license release.
• For some reasons SideFX Orbolt stopped working for this asset and I am not able to convert this into a Studio license anymore.
• If you need a Commercial Studio license download the latest available, version: v1.3.07

• Fix: When in camera sensor mode, the camera cull option will now be turned off.
• Fix: When loading a flame file without the expected root tag, it would not show the proper Flame name in the IN menu presets label list. It is now fixed.
• Python code cleanup.

FLAM3 for SideFX Houdini v1.3.33

H20.x and H19.x only

• This is a Limited Commercial Houdini Indie license release.
• For some reasons SideFX Orbolt stopped working for this asset and I am not able to convert this into a Studio license anymore.
• If you need a Commercial Studio license download the latest available, version: v1.3.07

• New: Camera sensor icons now changes when the update sensor option is either ON or OFF. It change in the UI and in the viewport too.
• New: Added higher tier bookmark icon to the CP lookup samples menu entries.
• New: Added the option to reset an iterator to its default values.
• New: Added the option to reset an FF iterator to its default values.
• New: New FF iterator disabled icon.
• Fix: When using the IN remap pre_gaussian_blur action button while a flame preset from the clipboard was already loaded, the status bar msg was printing also the bookmark icon path. it is now fixed.
• Fix: When loading a json file that is not a FLAM3H valid palette file, it will now prevent you to save a palette so to not override its content.
• Fix: When creating a new palette file, saving a palette was not updating the menu entries, it is now fixed.
• Fix: Cleaned up CP tab.
• Python code cleanup.
• Updated HDA documentation.

FLAM3 for SideFX Houdini v1.3.20

H20.x and H19.x only

• This is a Houdini Indie license release.
• For some reasons SideFX Orbolt stopped working for this asset and I am not able to convert this into a Studio license anymore.
• If you need a Commercial Studio license download the latest available, version: v1.3.07

• New: All of the variations that Fractorium lacks will now be classified as: "Unknown" during Flame load and listed inside the Flame preset's stats/info tab. Note that this will scan the Flame XML key's "plugins".
• New: Added info icon to the IN Tab -> IN Info folder's header. (purely cosmetic)
• Fix: When loading a flame or a palette file and then saving the hip file somewhere else, Houdini would add the $HIP variable at the beginning of the filepath, causing the same file path to become invalid and throwing an error. It is now fixed.
• Fix: Fixed a case where the flame's plugins key could be populated with an empty var name string resulting in an error during flame's load.
• Fix: Moved variable cast PFF (GEM.PFF) inside the FF section where it belong inside: "TheFractalFlameAlgorithm.vfl" .
• Fix: Improved all the reset's pre_affine methods as they now use dictionaries instead.
• Fix: Fixed IN Tab render properties folder's heading typo.
• Fix: Variation name "linear3d" is now automatically re-mapped into "linear".
• Python code cleanup.
• Updated HDA documentation.

FLAM3 for SideFX Houdini v1.3.07

H20.x and H19.x only
( This is a Houdini Studio Commercial license release. It will work on Houdini Indie and Learning edition too. )

• New: Sensor bbox node is now compiled as a native CVEX node.
• New: About Tab folders title headers now have an icon to start with (purely cosmetic).
• New: When no flame file is loaded and we load a flame from the clipboard, the menu label will now say: "Clipboard".
• New: New IN preset menu label bookmark icon when a flame from the clipboard is loaded.
• New: New SYS HDA documentation icon. It now uses the blue star as it stand for: "help/informations/tips".
• New: Added the blue star icon to the copy/paste info menu label messages as it stand for: "help/informations/tips".
• New: New parameter's option icon.
• New: New parameter's kwargs options icon.
• New: New Pre_blur bookmark icon when its value is above 0.
• New: New Pre_blur bookmark icon when its value is above 1.
• New: You can now paste the entire iterator also from the copy/paste mini menu, CTRL+LMB on the icon is also still available.
• New: You can now paste the entire FF also from the copy/paste mini menu, CTRL+LMB on the icon is also still available.
• Fix: Loading an invalid flame file from the SHIFT + LMB file dialog while a valid flame file was already loaded caused to invalidate it. It is now fixed.
• Fix: Updated Iterator's active icon. It has a nicer contrast now.
• Fix: Fixed a bug that prevented loading flames from the clipboard if a valid flame file wasn't loaded already. (Bug introduced in some of the preview updates)
• Fix: The TFFAsensor CVEX node is now independent and do not need a transform node anymore to complete the sensor orientation.
• Fix: The reframe viewport bounding box is now compiled as a native CVEX node.
• Fix: When creating a new FLAM3H node while something else has the displayflag ON, it wont send a load default message to the flash message anymore.
• Fix: Instead of importing the whole Numpy module, FLAM3H is now importing only the needed methods.
• Fix: Better copy/paste menu labels messages format.
• Fix: Improved action buttons tooltips.
• Fix: Improved sensor's bbox build method.
• Fix: Default palette ramps values are now embedded into their own Class's staticmethods.
• Fix: Copy/paste the same iterator/FF section after an Undo was not working. It is now fixed.
• Fix: The SYS IN presets menu parameter was trying to load a flame preset when selecting the "Empty" menu label. It is now fixed.
• Fix: All the copy/paste menu label's messages now ends their sentences with a dot(".").
• Fix: Improved flash messages on flame save.
• Fix: Missing FF PRE variations were searched and compared against the POST dictionary instead of the PRE dictionary. It is now fixed.
• Fix: Revisited some general messages and its frequency.
• Fix: More targeted messages on flame load when not a valid flame file or preset.
• Fix: Check for Chaotica flame presets on flame load (from SHIFT + LMB file dialog as well ) and on load from the clipboard too.
• Python code cleanup.
• Updated HDA documentation.

FLAM3H USD

• New: The HDA node has a new icon that make more sense and in line with the FLAM3H HDA icons library.
• Updated HDA documentation.

FLAM3 for SideFX Houdini v1.2.75c

H20.x and H19.x only
( This is a Houdini Studio Commercial license release. It will work on Houdini Indie and Learning edition too. )

Re-release with a small source code fix from regression in the file: flameff.h
cc8f4d9

• New: Camera sensor infos are now turned into their own CVEX native node, much cleaner.
• New: Camera sensor TAG logos transformations are now turned into their own CVEX native nodes.
• New: A new and very small class: _xml() has been added dedicated to compute menu entries for the IN presets menu parameters quicker.
• New: New FF Enabled state icon.
• New: The density mini menu entry labels from 500k to 1 Billion now have a red star bookmark icon to signal the higher band of those values.
• Fix: FF variation disabled state bookmark icon now matches the one used inside the iterator's variations as it is more readable.
• Fix: The IN and SYS Tab menus IN presets parameters are now a bit more lightweight to compute and populate based on the loaded XML file.
• Fix: The CP and SYS Tab menus CP presets parameters are now a bit more lightweight to compute and populate based on the loaded JSON file.
• Fix: The CP Tab is now at its default values since the start.
• Fix: When in camera sensor viz mode the RIP option will now be disabled as it is not needed and wont affect anything turning it ON or OFF.
• Fix: the flame private definition __get_name() in class: _xml_tree() is now a public def: get_name() and run directly from its parent class: _xml_tree()
• Fix: FF pre and post Affine X,Y not being reset on SHIFT + LMB. It is now fixed.
• Fix: Auto set xaos now use a SET and GET definition for each of its different data types, making it a little faster.
• Fix: Added better tooltips to some of the parameters that were left out from preview revisions.
• Fix: When in ZERO iterator count mode, the SYS Disabled star icon is more transparent, making it look more cleaner.
• Improved Python code.
• Updated HDA documentation.

FLAM3H USD v0.0.6

• Improved Python code.