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 (12.04.2026):
- mandelbro3d:
- created Turbulence-procedural-texture (SWAN-1111)
- created Voronoi-procedural-texture (SWAN-1112)
- created Wood-procedural-texture (SWAN-1113)
- also allow to use image maps as texture (SWAN-1114)
- implemented material-textures for primitives (SWAN-1117)
- implemented emission-textures for primitives (SWAN-1118)
- fixed: the visible switch did not work for fractals inside hybrids (SWAN-1084)
- created example scenes for procedural textures (SWAN-1119)
- fixed: sometimes the gizmo-display is permanently deactivated and can not activated
again (SWAN-1120)
VERSION 3.5.2307 (12.04.2026):
- mandelbro3d:
- created procedural texture system to be used for primitves (SWAN-1106)
- created Checkerboard-procedural-texture (SWAN-1107)
- created Brick-procedural-texture (SWAN-1108)
- created Grid-procedural-texture (SWAN-1109)
- created Marble-procedural-texture (SWAN-1110)
- implemented color-textures for primitives (SWAN-1115)
- implemented bump-textures for primitives (SWAN-1116)
- renamed "Work Budget" into "Quality Budget" which is more intuitive (SWAN-1104)
- renamed "Dispatch Budget" into "Steps per Pass" (SWAN-1105)
VERSION 3.4.2298 (11.04.2026):
- mandelbro3d:
- added Gyrosphere-primitive (SWAN-1095)
- added Rhombic-Dodecahedron-primitive (SWAN-1096)
- added Hyperboloid-primitive (SWAN-1097)
- added Torus Knot-primitive (SWAN-1098)
- fixed CogOrbitTrap-formula (inner radius shrinks the out radius rather than
creating a hole in the center of the shape) (SWAN-1099)
- rename the parameter "Max Trap Dist" of all DEcombinate-formulas into "Smoothness"
and chose a better default value (SWAN-1100)
- using the rotate gizmo sometimes resets position to default position which makes
it hard to use (SWAN-1101)
- automatically create/update keyframes when moving/rotating objects using gizmos (SWAN-1088)
- fixed: glass-material: glass-color has no effect (SWAN-1102)
- set default Menger Iterations in the MengerPyramid-formula to 2 (SWAN-1103)
VERSION 3.3.2288 (10.04.2026):
- mandelbro3d:
- added GyrosphereOrbitTrap-formula (SWAN-1090)
- added HyperboloidOrbitTrap-formula (SWAN-1092)
- added RhombicDodecOrbitTrap-formula (SWAN-1093)
- added TorusKnotOrbitTrap-formula (SWAN-1094)
- the new julia-mode-controls are now hiodden for IFS and Menger formulas,
because they have no effect here (SWAN-1081)
- removed the generic "Julia W"-parameter as only a few formulas use this parameter
and have their own parameter (SWAN-1082)
- when entering text into fields, also the shortcuts for the fractal viewport
are triggered (SWAN-1085)
- automatically create/update keyframes when moving/rotating camera using gizmos (SWAN-1087)
- fixed ConeOrbitTrap-formula (produces additional disc) (SWAN-1089)