Developer posts and news about this game.
It has been a while, but I was really busy. With the current update there come two major two things: - post rendering effects, which is a separate shader pass to apply typical balancing effects, color grading effects (for example, to turn your artworks into "Matrix style"), Vigne
This major update brings a few bug fixes, some new interesting container types (e.g., a mode to create a classic ifs-iteration, including a non-linear part) and - maybe surprisingly - a large collection of 150 new variations for flame fractals. Complete changelog: VERSION 4.9.280
This major update brings another very flexible tool: domain rendering. You may imagine this feature in the way, that multiple scenes are rendered at the same time, and a function (the domain-partitioning-function) specifies, where in the global space, appears which scene. This ma
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For this version I made a lot of internal refactorings to improve rendering quality and hybrid-fractal-support. Also, there is a new experimental hybrid-container which uses a variation- or scalar-field to modulate the iteration-counts of the fractal formulas inside the hybrid. T
I have completely re-implemented the preview now, so that it is also using the compute-shader-pipeline and produces images which are more close to the final renders. And more important, it can also render very "heavy" scenes, which was the largest problem before. You will encount
Another update with a lot of new stuff and fixes: - the flame skies now finally work (there was the problem, that *.exr-file-support is removed from exported Godot-builds, so I had to create my own ExrLoader class) - new surface-objects (by a new container-type) which can be appl
VERSION 3.35.2629 (30.04.2026): - mandelbro3d: - added sun primitive (SWAN-1440) - added moon primitive (SWAN-1441) - added support for really transparent portions of surfaces, for example needed by some of the new sky objects (SWAN-1443) - dont include procedural textures into t
Changelog: VERSION 3.32.2597 (27.04.2026): - mandelbro3d: - use formula-picker when adding a new primitive (SWAN-1414) - use formula-picker when adding a new fractal formula (SWAN-1415) - objects and lights can now also follow the camera (SWAN-1416) - added "headlamp" preview mod
With this update come really many new things: - introducing wall-objects: helping to combine classical architectural elements with fractals - a collection of new sky objects - a collection of new ground objects - a large collection of new procedural textures - the ability to use
This update brings new fur/hair-controls which can be combined with any material. But, please note, that computing fur is a real heavy operation. Even compiling the shaders can take up to minutes! If you encounter GPU-timeouts during rendering, decrease tile-size and/or quality b
Complete changelog: VERSION 3.10.2353 (14.04.2026): - mandelbro3d: - also added a "Pick Position"-position for light sources (SWAN-1147) - fixed: hybrid fractals sometimes render different in preview than in hq/hq+ mode (SWAN-1157) - fixed: Godot sees not the OIDN-executable unde
This update introduces procedural textures for primitives (colormaps, bumpmaps, material maps and emission map) and comes with some new shapes, both as primitives and as DEcombinate formulas. Also, a few bugs have been fixed. Happy rendering! Complete changelog: VERSION 3.6.2316
JWildfireSwan 1.0: Flame Editor Initially, JWildfireSwan was intended solely as an editor for flame fractals. Admittedly with high ambitions, but only for this type of fractal art. Then came the extension to AI-assisted fractal art (“ai img2img”) based on flame fractals (I know t
I have made some fundamental changes to the ray-marcher, which should improve the render quality on small objects with many details substantly. But it may be the case that some existing scenes of you need adjustments to give the right results. If you encounter "incomplete objects
This is a major update bringing the fascinating realm of true 3d-fractals to you, as a free update! Rather than creating a separate app, I have integrated it into swan as new module, which is called MandelBro3D. There are many features which work the same for flames and 3d-fracta
now I finished the first playable version of the fractal-breakout game. Have fun! complete changelog: VERSION 2.17.1764 (23.01.2026): - chillout bricks: - first working/playable version finished! (SWAN-548) - created levels 51-60 (SWAN-492) - created levels 61-70 (SWAN-493) - cre
complete changrelog: VERSION 2.16.1753 (14.01.2026): - chillout bricks: - added option to quit the game in pause-mode (SWAN-399) - create video about adding audio to flames and creating audio-synchronized animations (SWAN-545) - improved handling of save window-position of the ma
Merry Christmas! This free update brings 3 new major things: hdr-image-output new help-module with links to the user's manual and official videos major ui overhaul: elements are now better grouped and distinguishable from each other. Also, you can add/remove multiple points at on
After 500 commits, 10000 file edits and completing 200 tasks I finally finished JWildfireSwan 2.0 which comes as free update! Together with some minor enhancements there comes a brand-new module: flame painter. In short, flame painter allows to visually compose flames of flames b