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Description
I made the plugins in this package for Apophysis because I was frustrated that some variables for Apo's variations only accept whole numbers.
For example, with the julian variation, the julian_power variable will take values of 2 and 3, but not 2.5 or 3.5. (Try those values and see for yourself.)
This is a predicament for interpolated animations because all flame parameters need to take fractional values so that fluid transitions will be produced in the frames between keyframes.
So in the package you will find plugins like "julian_fl" and others with names that correspond to existing variations or earlier plugins.
In any of your flames that use julian, you can substitute julian_fl without changing the appearance of your flame. The same relationship applies between the rest of the original variations and the substitute/replacement plugins in the package.
The difference though is that the values for any of the variables in the plugins in the package will accept fractional values. (Try the same experiment as above and type in 2.5 or 3.5 for the julian_fl_power variable.)

The substitute/replacement plugins in the package are:
blob_fl
hypertFL (corresponds to the "hypertile" plugin)
julia3D_fl
julia3Dz_fl
julian_fl
juliascope_fl
pie_fl
wedge_fl
wedge_juliaFL
wedge_sphFL

So animation is what these plugins are mainly about, insofar as my reason for making them. But the plugins, after all, are just additional plugins and they can be used just like any others by people who have no intention of making animations.

There are also in the package a few plugins which are modeled after some of the variations in the 2.05 Z+ or Z+C++ versions of Apo.
I just made these because I wanted to use the variations but there weren't any plugins for them. They didn't necessarily have restrictions on what values could be applied to variables... I don't really recall.
The plugins based on Z+ or Z+C++ variations are:
conic2
cross
flower2
parabola2
twintrian2.

Lastly there are two more plugins that correspond to the pre_rotate and post_rotate _x and _y variations in 3D Apo versions but they are for the z direction:
pre_rotate_z
post_rotate_z.

Those two are useful for some 3D tricks and they even work as a kind of rotational effect in normal Apo versions.

For those who aren't necessarily interested in animations here's a hint:
Some years ago in a discussion at FracFan there was a discussion about possibly applying say, juliascope, twice to the same transform.
As I mentioned above, in fact, the juliascope_fl plugin duplicates the juliascope variation (and does a bit more) so now people can experiment with the kind of possibility people wondered about in that FracFan discussion.

I've been using all of the plugins in the package (except hypertFL) for more than a year now without any problems (most of them have also been publicly available in the Apophymator script package since earlier this year too).

The source code for all of the plugins is included in the zip package.
If you aren't interested in the code ignore or don't unpack or delete the folder named "Source" in the zip file.

To use with all Apo versions except 3D hack put the plugins in the "Plugins" folder.
For use with 3D hack, put the plugins in the "Plugins3D" folder.

To use the plugins with 7X they need to be in the "Plugins" folder, even though 7X is 3D-capable.

But you should also be aware that julia3D_fl and julia3Dz_fl won't produce the intended 3D effect in all of the Apo versions except 7X that use the plain "Plugins" folder. 7X is the only 3D-capable Apo version other than 3D hack.

The plugins are released under GNU-GPL license, version 3.

Description
I made the plugins in this package for Apophysis because I was frustrated that some variables for Apo's variations only accept whole numbers.
For example, with the julian variation, the julian_power variable will take values of 2 and 3, but not 2.5 or 3.5. (Try those values and see for yourself.)
This is a predicament for interpolated animations because all flame parameters need to take fractional values so that fluid transitions will be produced in the frames between keyframes.
So in the package you will find plugins like "julian_fl" and others with names that correspond to existing variations or earlier plugins.
In any of your flames that use julian, you can substitute julian_fl without changing the appearance of your flame. The same relationship applies between the rest of the original variations and the substitute/replacement plugins in the package.
The difference though is that the values for any of the variables in the plugins in the package will accept fractional values. (Try the same experiment as above and type in 2.5 or 3.5 for the julian_fl_power variable.)

The substitute/replacement plugins in the package are:
blob_fl
hypertFL (corresponds to the "hypertile" plugin)
julia3D_fl
julia3Dz_fl
julian_fl
juliascope_fl
pie_fl
wedge_fl
wedge_juliaFL
wedge_sphFL

So animation is what these plugins are mainly about, insofar as my reason for making them. But the plugins, after all, are just additional plugins and they can be used just like any others by people who have no intention of making animations.

There are also in the package a few plugins which are modeled after some of the variations in the 2.05 Z+ or Z+C++ versions of Apo.
I just made these because I wanted to use the variations but there weren't any plugins for them. They didn't necessarily have restrictions on what values could be applied to variables... I don't really recall.
The plugins based on Z+ or Z+C++ variations are:
conic2
cross
flower2
parabola2
twintrian2.

Lastly there are two more plugins that correspond to the pre_rotate and post_rotate _x and _y variations in 3D Apo versions but they are for the z direction:
pre_rotate_z
post_rotate_z.

Those two are useful for some 3D tricks and they even work as a kind of rotational effect in normal Apo versions.

For those who aren't necessarily interested in animations here's a hint:
Some years ago in a discussion at FracFan there was a discussion about possibly applying say, juliascope, twice to the same transform.
As I mentioned above, in fact, the juliascope_fl plugin duplicates the juliascope variation (and does a bit more) so now people can experiment with the kind of possibility people wondered about in that FracFan discussion.

I've been using all of the plugins in the package (except hypertFL) for more than a year now without any problems (most of them have also been publicly available in the Apophymator script package since earlier this year too).

The source code for all of the plugins is included in the zip package.
If you aren't interested in the code ignore or don't unpack or delete the folder named "Source" in the zip file.

To use with all Apo versions except 3D hack put the plugins in the "Plugins" folder.
For use with 3D hack, put the plugins in the "Plugins3D" folder.

To use the plugins with 7X they need to be in the "Plugins" folder, even though 7X is 3D-capable.

But you should also be aware that julia3D_fl and julia3Dz_fl won't produce the intended 3D effect in all of the Apo versions except 7X that use the plain "Plugins" folder. 7X is the only 3D-capable Apo version other than 3D hack.

The plugins are released under GNU-GPL license, version 3.