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Rick Sidwell

Excellent mini series of guides and tutorials by Rick Sidwell, learn about lighting for your fractal scenes as well as a more in depth look at JWildfire itself.

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New Features in JWildfire 5.50

Version 5.50 of the fractal flame program JWildfire was released on December 21, 2019. … Details

Categories Rick Sidwell Tags blob, flame, type, video
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JWildfire Solid Render Lighting

Learning the principles, and technique of lighting for 3D renders.

Categories Rick Sidwell Tags blob, jwildfire, render, settings, type
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JWildfire Solid Render Materials

How to use the materials settings to make your 3D solid images stand out.

Categories Rick Sidwell Tags blob, jwildfire, render, resource, type
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What is a Fractal?

So what is a fractal exactly? In this great presentation by RIck Sidwell, you’ll find out!

Categories Rick Sidwell Tags blob, Fractal, Fractals, type, video
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New Features in JWildfire 5.50

Latest upgrade news, showing what’s new, what’s changed and any bug fixes.

Categories Rick Sidwell, Videos Tags Fractal, Fractals, rick sidwell, video
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JWildfire Solid Render Lighting

Excellent guide to how lighting 3D models works in Jwildfire, Rick Sidwell goes through the different settings and how they change how your 3D model looks.

Categories Rick Sidwell, Videos Tags lighting, rick sidwell, settings, tutorial, video
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JWildfire Solid Render Materials

Superb guide to the render materials part of JWildfire. Explained beautifully.

Categories Rick Sidwell, Tutorial, Videos Tags render, rick sidwell, settings, tutorial, video

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  1. Lea on Alien Realm Creations

    Robert, Thanks, these look so awesome! Can't wait to play!

  2. Fractist LinChen on How to Create Scripts Part 5

    Hi,thank you for the tutorial,It's really helpful I seem to have a problem here After I pasted the code ,it…

  3. thoth on Transmogrify your life

    It's my pleasure Teri, hope you make some amazing art with it.

  4. thoth on Transmogrify your life

    Thank you so much for saying so, I hope you have fun with them. :)

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