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Published: 2016-07-30 03:01:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 515; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 0
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Chaotica 1.5.8- still playing with layering multiple xaos loops.
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It's silly- for the longest time I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to get the effects I wanted, then I had a lightbulb moment and realized I could do more than one loop layer and other things instead of just planets/moons.Β It's a shame though that apo doesn't support viewing/rendering multiple loops, but Chaotica does it so beautifully I really don't see any reason to complain about it much.
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Technically apophysis does -- and that's how I work with most of my loops -- but you have to be reaaaaalllly specific in setting them up.
Basically, xform 1 always starts iterations, so xform 1 has to be a "distributor."
Β I'll then create secondary distribution xforms, and for simplicity let's make two of them.
Then, each secondary distribution xform links to the actual layer itself.
So we can do something like:
1 -> {2, 3}
2 -> {4, 5, 6}
4 -> {4, 5, 6}
5 -> {4, 5, 6}
6 -> {4, 5, 6}
3 -> {7, 8, 9 }
7 -> {7, 8, 9 }
8 -> {7, 8, 9 }
9 -> {7, 8, 9 }
So, from this, you can see that 1 has a random chance to distribute into 2 or 3, which allows apo to show multiple xaos loops in the previews. Β It's a bit glitchy in the xform editor depending on the preview density you set, but it works enough for my purposes of using it. Β It's still better than mass editing xaos in Chaotica.
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Aha.Β That makes sense.Β I'll have to give that a try.Β Thanks!!
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I've used this technique in numerous pieces I've made, most notably my avatar, Observer, which also has an ungodly number of xforms to it. Β I think it has four separate layers? Β
What's really fun is if you sub-layer into an existing layer -- like if we modify the second transform layer to be the following:
3 -> {7, 8, 9}
7 -> {10, 11}
8 -> {7, 8, 9}
9 -> {7, 8, 9}
10 -> {7, 8, 9}
11 -> {7, 8, 9}
This allows you to have branching paths in an existing layer, so if you like an effect one particular transform has, but wish it also covered the space around it differently, you could have a sub-loop which directs it to both paths. Β I find this useful when working with effects that I want to isolate to a certain structural part of a fractal.
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Hoy- I definitely need to try this, but it will most likely require my meds, ha.Β Will look into it tomorrow if I don't have to go get Abby.Β Thanks for the tips <3
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