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Eye Spy with Tutorial for JWildfire

(Mini Tutorial for JWildfire using wfield and subflames)
***Only for advanced users***

Hi guys. I had so much fun making this that I'm going to describe how I did it. There are a million ways to tweak this method. I'm not giving out parameters because you don't learn anything that way. Consider this a challenge. Here goes: Important - Requires JWF 7.0 alpha 5. Camera: Everything at default with 160 ppu. Coloring: Brightness to around 15, Gamma to 3, the rest at default. Gradient: I used Mixpal Gradient, darkish colors but highly saturated.

First flame: Click new from scratch and add TX1 of arch at variation amount of 0.472, add post_mirror variation with both xaxis and yaxis at 1, the rest at default. Add post_smartcrop variation amount of 1 with radius of 0.5, cropmode 1, all the rest at default. Go to Wfield tab and add cellular noise, var amounts -2, color amount 10, frequency 50, return type Distance 2, Distant Fnct Euclidian, the rest leave at default. Weight of TX1 at 0.5. Duplicate this to TX2 and rotate TX2 90 degrees either direction in Affine tab using post Transform active. Now click on TX1 to make active. Go to Xaos tab and click on TX1. Make sure xaos is set to "view as to". Set TX1 to 5. Now click on TX2 to make active and go back to xaos tab and set TX2 "view as to" also at 5. In other words, set TX1 "to" TX1 at 5, and TX2 "to" TX2 at 5. Leave all the rest of xaos settings in this flame at 1.

TX3. Plane_wf at variation amount of 1. Change size to 5, axis to 0, and the rest of the params leave on default. Add post_mirror xaxis to 1 and yaxis to 1 and the rest at default. Change weight of TX3 to 0.25. This is a good time to go to gradient tab, choose gradient and click the Distribute color button.

Add Final1 of sin2_bs variation amount of 1, x1 to 2.5, x2 to -0.85, y1 to 2, y2 to 0.

Add Final2 sym_bg7 variation amount of 1, leave params at default. At this point you should have what looks like 3 cylinders with the middle one lower than the first and third.

Add Final3 of foci variation amount of 1. (yes, three finals total--sorry Brad)

Sshot this flame in case you mess up and then subflame it changing color_mode to 0 on the subflame variation and the rest of the subflame params to default. Delete all other variations you may have in the flame except the subflame variation which will be TX1.

With the subflame as TX1 change the weight of TX1 to 1.0. Add TX2 of blur or sineblur (my favorite) at a variation amount of only 0.112. Add post_mirror with xaxis at 1 and xshift of -2 and the other params at default. Go to Affine tab and with post_transform active move to the left two clicks if set to a default of 0.5. "01" should read -1. That achieved filling in the holes in the subflame. Set the weight of TX2 blur to 0.025 to 0.1 or it will be way too bright. Also go to color tab and set the blur TX on cyclic. Now add a final of murl, variation amount of 1, c at 0.25, power of 1. There you have it! I rolled my camera to -30 and moved the camera around just a little to get the final results. I also changed the background color to a very dark complimenting color. You can now play around with your gradient and brightness. When rendering I found the Optix or OIDN denoisers to be helpful.

I hope some of you will take this challenge or save it for later. I had a lot of fun with this one, even though it looks so simple but isn't! Please post your results even if it looks just like mine. It shows you did the tutorial correctly. Then tweak it to call it your own! As always post your questions and I'll try to answer them. Mostly, have fun!

Description
Eye Spy with Tutorial for JWildfire

(Mini Tutorial for JWildfire using wfield and subflames)
***Only for advanced users***

Hi guys. I had so much fun making this that I'm going to describe how I did it. There are a million ways to tweak this method. I'm not giving out parameters because you don't learn anything that way. Consider this a challenge. Here goes: Important - Requires JWF 7.0 alpha 5. Camera: Everything at default with 160 ppu. Coloring: Brightness to around 15, Gamma to 3, the rest at default. Gradient: I used Mixpal Gradient, darkish colors but highly saturated.

First flame: Click new from scratch and add TX1 of arch at variation amount of 0.472, add post_mirror variation with both xaxis and yaxis at 1, the rest at default. Add post_smartcrop variation amount of 1 with radius of 0.5, cropmode 1, all the rest at default. Go to Wfield tab and add cellular noise, var amounts -2, color amount 10, frequency 50, return type Distance 2, Distant Fnct Euclidian, the rest leave at default. Weight of TX1 at 0.5. Duplicate this to TX2 and rotate TX2 90 degrees either direction in Affine tab using post Transform active. Now click on TX1 to make active. Go to Xaos tab and click on TX1. Make sure xaos is set to "view as to". Set TX1 to 5. Now click on TX2 to make active and go back to xaos tab and set TX2 "view as to" also at 5. In other words, set TX1 "to" TX1 at 5, and TX2 "to" TX2 at 5. Leave all the rest of xaos settings in this flame at 1.

TX3. Plane_wf at variation amount of 1. Change size to 5, axis to 0, and the rest of the params leave on default. Add post_mirror xaxis to 1 and yaxis to 1 and the rest at default. Change weight of TX3 to 0.25. This is a good time to go to gradient tab, choose gradient and click the Distribute color button.

Add Final1 of sin2_bs variation amount of 1, x1 to 2.5, x2 to -0.85, y1 to 2, y2 to 0.

Add Final2 sym_bg7 variation amount of 1, leave params at default. At this point you should have what looks like 3 cylinders with the middle one lower than the first and third.

Add Final3 of foci variation amount of 1. (yes, three finals total--sorry Brad)

Sshot this flame in case you mess up and then subflame it changing color_mode to 0 on the subflame variation and the rest of the subflame params to default. Delete all other variations you may have in the flame except the subflame variation which will be TX1.

With the subflame as TX1 change the weight of TX1 to 1.0. Add TX2 of blur or sineblur (my favorite) at a variation amount of only 0.112. Add post_mirror with xaxis at 1 and xshift of -2 and the other params at default. Go to Affine tab and with post_transform active move to the left two clicks if set to a default of 0.5. "01" should read -1. That achieved filling in the holes in the subflame. Set the weight of TX2 blur to 0.025 to 0.1 or it will be way too bright. Also go to color tab and set the blur TX on cyclic. Now add a final of murl, variation amount of 1, c at 0.25, power of 1. There you have it! I rolled my camera to -30 and moved the camera around just a little to get the final results. I also changed the background color to a very dark complimenting color. You can now play around with your gradient and brightness. When rendering I found the Optix or OIDN denoisers to be helpful.

I hope some of you will take this challenge or save it for later. I had a lot of fun with this one, even though it looks so simple but isn't! Please post your results even if it looks just like mine. It shows you did the tutorial correctly. Then tweak it to call it your own! As always post your questions and I'll try to answer them. Mostly, have fun!