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
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check here -> [link] to have a look at the lovely results fellow deviants got from this tutorial
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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...
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
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...

Thank you!
I have windows 10,maybe it is not right .
could you help me,please? I like this program but I can't use it ....
is there some keyboard shortcuts that can I use to navigate the menù?
thanks for everything ( and sorry for my bad english)
Cristina
E' un po' che non uso abitualmente apophysis, non so se ho ben capito il tuo problema, ti consiglio comunque di provare la versione 7x ---> sourceforge.net/projects/apoph…
Essendo più nuova dovrebbe darti meno problemi su un sistema operativo nuovo!
Spero sia di aiuto!
Ciao!
E' la prima volta che utilizzo questi programmi ( sto provando anche Chaotica) ma non trovo delle guide "dettagliate".
Per quello che ci vorrei fare avrei bisogno di acquisire un certo controllo sugli effetti da raggiungere:
per caso non sapresti indicarmi un buon forum o una buona guida per capire bene cosa fanno i vari settaggi?
grazie ancora per l'ottimo consiglio.
Cristina
Ah, all finished! Here it is: fav.me/dazhv90
almachiaraalex.deviantart.com/…
if you're writing here but refer to the 3d one I suppose you didn't read the description of the 3d tutorial (like 99% of the people who comment there telling they have a problem) and you have the same old problem that you get when you're using apophysis 7x version 15c, 15d or 16: I already gave the solution there
my result
fav.me/d8l15b4
Come take a look if you have the time
This is the picture I made with it lupsiberg.deviantart.com/art/B…
This is the one I like best so far link
Thanks for a great tutorial. Not too many tutorial writers see fit to explain what can be "tweaked" in order to create a personal version of your tutorial.
I managed several beautiful flowers which looked nothing like yours. I was pleased, alas, after rendering, on my Corel, they looked nothing like on Apo, before rendering. They all came out transparent, like the renders from Chaoscop... I want the petals to have a solid color. When I rendered, I tried at 4000 density, at 12000 and at 20000. Except for the difference in rendering time, the results were all the same.
Another question - why does the flower have a colorful surrounding? I would rather have the flame without any background.
Would appreciate your answer.
Thanks
Hanna
I wonder if anyone else had this problem? If not, I cannot figure what I am doing wrong. I am using apophysis 2.09. I can't use 7X as it says it's missing a dll file. msvcr110 to be exact.
Any help would be appreciated
www.microsoft.com/en-us/downlo…
that is the link i followed and it only took a few moments to download and install so if you want to try it i hope it helps
I wanted to see if anyone is around that might be able to tell me what a msvcr110.dll file is, and it seems to be needed to make these programs function properly (I've tried both apophysis 2.09, and the 7X. I can't get the 7X to work without the file at all (get the error message that the dll is missing) but I can use 2.09. But I wanted to downloand the cross plugin (possibly more plugins, don't know what all I want yet) so I could do the above tutorial). So I found the "pack" and downloaded them, then, guess what, I got that "missing dll again
If anyone can explain the details on this, and direct me in either how to fix it, or, tell me if I can live without 7X, as well as the plugin pack, I would surely appreciate it
Way new here, and haven't read all about anything yet, so hoping to yack with some of you
thanks for the tutorial.~
On a more positive note: This is a wonderful tutorial! It's so easy to follow and in-depth! Thank you for making this, even though I can't get it quite right, I'll figure it out!
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.