Enable GPU Rendering for Linux (CUDA)

[MrBruz]

Cuda natively supports Linux and as a avid Linux user I would love to be able to use the full potential of JWildfire ♥️

[MrBruz]

After doing some digging it looks like the FAEngineJWF repository needs to be open sourced. If you can do that, that'd be greatly appreciated and I will see what I can do for making it multi platform compatable

[thargor6]

https://bitbucket.org/amaschke/faengine/src/JWildfireExperiments/

[MrBruz]

Progress is looking promising, thanks

[thargor6]

awesome!

[MrBruz]

First working render.

Also @thargor6 how can I export/save flames as the flam3 format? The GUI usually saves them as flame files.

[thargor6]

great!
As far as I know there is not much difference between flam3 and flame-format. flam3-files might contain additional optional attributes.
There is currently no explicit support for generating flam3-files from within the GUI.

[MrBruz]

It seems that a flam is a single layer of a flam3 judging by the XML layout.

When you click on the GPU button in the GUI it supposedly passes a flam file to the GPU render. This implies that it can convert the flam3 to the flam format, which confuses me since they seem to be differing formats.

[thargor6]

There are three formats involved

• "flame" (some variant of flam3, with the proprietary settings of various flame-processing programs, e. g. Apophysis or JWildfire)
• "jwfflame" (some extension of "flame" for more complex flames)
• "flam3" (usually not used by JWildfire by itself, but for transfering flames to the GPU render, maybe it is the true "flam3" or not, I can't tell. It is just the format the GPU render accepts)