Well, I got permission from the lovely ~skellorg to publish this tutorial based on her wonderful "Tips for textures with crackle" tutorial, sadly no longer available here on deviantART. This is also based on "Blob Spirals" tutorial [link] by ~Zueuk. I warmly suggest you to check it as well, for it's one of the best I've ever found. Credits for the first part of the technique I'm describing must go to them, so please show them your appreciation, respect and gratitude.
As kindly requested by Susan, in this tutorial you won't find exact values to use but ranges of values. I really hope this could help to experiment more and find your own way. Actually there are no precise values to get these results, so I find it more correct to be this way. It's easy to follow, but a basic knowledge of apophysis is required . I tried to provide you a lot of suggestions to help you tweaking and customizing, but remember that there are tons of awesome other plugins for apophysis, and that you can also apply texturing, use a different final transform, and use xaos and linked transforms to get something new and interesting. Also, this kind of flame can become many other things different than a flower if you don't add cross, so go experiment the most you can
Thank you to all my beloved beta testers of the aposhack chatroom !
check here -> [link] to have a look at the lovely results fellow deviants got from this tutorial !!!
update: 3D version available
UPDATE: in the Aposhack Plugin Pack [link] you will find all the plugins you need. Just don't put all plugins in your plugins folder at once, or apophysis will crash. I WON'T REPLY ANYMORE TO COMMENTS ASKING ME WHERE TO FIND PLUGINS. people, please... please read the description, make a little research, or at least check previous comments and replies, instead of keep on asking me the same thing over and over...
[link] I wanted to morph the petals a little more with waves2 but though I changed all of the values every which way, I couldn't get them to change.. I liked how you had the edges dented in one of your tips and wanted to do something similar but I couldn't figure out how. I also tried creating it more in 3d but failed. I'm still trying to figure out how to combine your tutorials so I can make a 3d bloom with the morphed petals I desire. However, without your tutorials, I can guarantee I wouldn't have even gotten this far. Because of your tutorials, I've been able to understand the program better and learned how to make these magnificent flowers. The next step is learning more on the editing side of things in order to create the design I want.
Love this. 7hank you very much. By chance I found someone who finally told me where they found your tutorial. It's wonderful, in-depth, and easy to follow. I love Step 5 where you actually gave variation suggestions. 7hank you for a great tutorial.
OK after a few fails (somewhat) I finally made a Fractal Flower [link] its kind of simple compared to the others that I have seen but I'll get there (I hope). Thanks again for the Tutorial.
This was helpful, for a noob like me. I'm still trying to understand Apophysis 7x in its full glory and to manipulate it. Right now I have just been using the random generated flames and "tweaking" them then using PS7 to splice and manipulate that way.
Just made ->[link]
I wanted to morph the petals a little more with waves2 but though I changed all of the values every which way, I couldn't get them to change.. I liked how you had the edges dented in one of your tips and wanted to do something similar but I couldn't figure out how. I also tried creating it more in 3d but failed. I'm still trying to figure out how to combine your tutorials so I can make a 3d bloom with the morphed petals I desire.
However, without your tutorials, I can guarantee I wouldn't have even gotten this far. Because of your tutorials, I've been able to understand the program better and learned how to make these magnificent flowers. The next step is learning more on the editing side of things in order to create the design I want.
Thank you a lot for the help ^-^
(p.s. where can I find plugins?) ... ... joking.