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Installing Apophysis

July 31st, 2008 admin Leave a comment Go to comments

Apophysis is an Open Source fractal flames generator with incredibly powerful options and switches. I am using it since 2004 and have had tremendous times of joy playing around, twisting and optimizing parameter sets.

Many people raised the question how to install Apophysis correctly. This request is due to the fact that there are different versions and most new users just know the latest beta versions from Sourceforge. But, these are only executables and miss the accompanying files. They are in fact only update files for the main program.

So we have to follow some steps in successfully working with this program.

First download the original installation file from the official Apophysis site. Run this program and install it in a new directory (e.g.: C:\tools\Apophysis\) . Then go to Sourceforge and download a newer version to the same directory. Keep this file as a shortcut on your desktop.

Are we done now? Not really, we may want to install an external renderer. To do so, go to flam3.com and download it. Unzip this keeping the directory structure in your Apophysis folder. Now when you start Apophysis, you have to tell it where flam3 is located. So open menu >Options, >Options, >Path, set the Export Renderer to the location of your flam3-render.exe.

Now we are done. Good luck to everyone.

Additional Note: some useful links for Apophysis users:

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