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Published: 2014-11-13 20:25:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 3620; Favourites: 38; Downloads: 285
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Anyone is welcome to use this minitutorial/explanation please DO NOT FORGET to state the respective credits where they correspond, if you post or transcribe any part or parts of it.Thank you to TJ a.k.a. FracFx for creating this (to me) addictive plugin and taking the time to review my first draft.
Hope you will enjoy it as I do.
Both for the Group and are authorized hereby and welcome to post it in their galleries as well as any other deviant or group I am a member of.
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Hello
Whoch apophysis version are you using fo rthis tut. I am finding the tutorials can have greatly different results depending on which version is used. I would love to know what people think is the best most reliable versions.
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In page 3 of 4 in the first line of the parameters provided is shown that information, just in case it's this --->Apophysis 7x Version 15B
I can't really say which is the best and/or most reliable version. I got used to version 15B and now I use 15C. For 32bytes.
Good luck and thanks for using or trying to use that Mini-tuto 
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Thanks 
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YW
Good luck ! 
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You are welcome, I am glad to know it is useful
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You are most welcome Karin, I am glad it is useful
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Nice work on the tut, thanks for taking the time to do this as I didn't have much time when I uploaded it (limited time on public library pc and no home internet) to explain what the variables do. You got it all right, a little better explanation of the dc_cyl2_offset would be it's like you were using the rotate function in the gradient editor, but you have it right: "Where the application starts to read the gradient" or sets the 0 spot of the gradient on just that transform.
The DC_Plugins (all of them, DC_Linear, DC_Bubble, etc.) don't work so well on a final FX as they tend to spread the whole gradient across the entire fractal (this results in an ugly mess and the first version of DC_Cylinder had this problem on regular transforms sometimes, I think I fixed this with version 2), so I would avoid using ANY DC plugin on the FX. cyl2_y="1" would be about an average sized cylinder (I had the default at 0.125 which is really too short), and for some reason the normal pre_blur doesn't work the same as cyl2_blur. I don't know why because it's the same function built into the plugin 
What it really is, is a combination of the normal Cylinder+Pre_blur+DC_Linear variations all in one plugin, I couldn't get the same results using those 3 variations on a transform otherwise, so I created the plugin to get the results I was trying to achieve.
I look forward to seeing what other people come up with it and the things I would never have thought of myself
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Thank you for the supportive comment TJ, as to taking time it was really a pleasure and to know that it is useful to many "apo users" --apparently by the many favs-- is most rewarding.
As I mentioned many times and in many places, I am sort of addicted to it, I could use it in almost all the fractals I make (crazy I know) but I like it.
Agree with the messy results sometimes obtained with the DC_linear, I used it rather often but with very small values, before discovering the DC_Cylinder.
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A truly great tutorial, and I am touched and honored by the dedication
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You are most welcome Céline. You are in truth the reason why it came to be 
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