Hello! I am firing up xfractint on my Ubuntu machine and it's pretty much as I remembered fractint many years ago--an old friend. Is anyone successfully using batch mode with xfractint? I can't get it to output anything other than a blank 800x600 image around 3KB. xfractint works well in interactive mode with the same .par. I was wondering if it might be related to setting video params, based on the fractint manual, but that doesn't seem to be a thing with xfractint...? command line: combs@pripyat:~$ xfractint @madnessmethod.par/madnessmethod batch=y savename=barf .par contents: madnessmethod { reset=2004 type=mandel center-mag=-0.83027567839279071/+0.20488435231784574/18436.37 params=0/0 float=y maxiter=88888 inside=0 colors=@grey.map } very glad for any help anyone can offer! Many thanks, Chris one-time alt.binaries.pictures.fractals lurker -- *Chris Combs.* Artist and technologist in Washington, D.C. (he/him) http://chriscombs.net
On Fri, 2021-03-05 at 16:17 -0500, Chris Combs wrote:
Is anyone successfully using batch mode with xfractint? I can't get it to output anything other than a blank 800x600 image around 3KB.
I get a blank image as well.
I was wondering if it might be related to setting video params, based on the fractint manual, but that doesn't seem to be a thing with xfractint...?
Xfractint uses -geometry 1024x768 (for example) to change the video size. It doesn't help. I also tried -disk to use disk video, also no help. I have a vague sense of where the problem lies, but you might try using my SDL port (which does work if you provide a video mode "video=SF9", but has its own set of problems) at: https://www.fractint.net/ftp/experimental/ The current Xfractint version is : SDL2-Xfractint-20.05alpha-2021-02-11.tar.xz The save/restore image feature is slow in this version. I have it fixed in my development version. I can update the executable(s) this weekend. Jonathan
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