Experimenting with Animate mode

The Animate mode toggle controls how Ultra Fractal 

responds to changes that you make to a fractal. The 

basic rule is that if Animate mode is on, your changes 

are only applied to the current frame. Otherwise, your 

changes are applied to the entire animation.

Animate mode

Let s do some experiments with the rotation of the 

fractal to get a feel for how this works in practice.

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Move the time slider to frame 1 and verify that the Rotation Angle setting in the Location 

tab is set to 0. Also note the yellow marker before the input box. This shows that this 

parameter is animated and that there is a key at the current frame.

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Move the time slider to frame 100. The Rotation Angle value will now probably change, 

depending on how you rotated the selection box when zooming in earlier.

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Set Animate Mode to on, and change the Rotation Angle value to 60.

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Set Animate Mode to off, and move the time slider to frame 1 again.

Note that at frame 1, the Rotation Angle setting is still 0. That is because Animate mode was on 

when you changed it at frame 100. When Animate mode is on, changes only apply to the current 

frame. Let s try changing the rotation with Animate mode off to see how that works.

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Make sure Animate mode is still off and the time slider is at frame 1. Change the Rotation 

Angle setting to 90, which will rotate the fractal clockwise.

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If you now move the time slider (slowly) to frame 100, you will see that the entire 

animation has been rotated. That is because Animate mode was off when you changed the 

rotation. At frame 100, you will find that the Rotation Angle setting is now 150 instead of 

60. It has been increased by 90 as well.

You can use this technique with any parameter if you need to adjust the entire animation. For 

example, you can move the animation, globally change the color density, and so on.

Let s now restore the animation to its previous state, this time by changing the keys at different 

frames individually.

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