I want to bring in some update here in these turbulent times of releasing new stuff, the new group system and recent events in my life. So what happened? First, of course, Metaphysis has been blown out. Well, not exactly Metaphysis but a technical preview version of it. But not only this - I have also begun to publish a selection of Apophysis variations I had in the secret corners of my hard disk and recently created. And last but not least, I entered the final phase of my university dwelling and there will be some changes in here after I finished it.

Jesus Christ! =hallv5 just donated me a 3-month deviantART premium membership. Thank you so much mate. You are awesome!
It seems not to end! *MeLinFrance just gave me a one-year premium membership. I can't find words to thank you for this!

As you all know, a preview version of Metaphysis has been released (see here) and people were eager to try it out. But it was inevitable that it does not work on some PCs. I want to list the current known bugs here but all I can promise is a fix. Since this is clearly not a final version, it is not intended to give you a toy which can actually make artworking easy. It would have the same use if I'd make a screen capture and upload it on Youtube. There is still a lot of work to do and the most problems were caused by rather deep problems with the applications integrety. Be patient! So what has been reported to me?

• Message "You must use 'Turn Windows features on or off' in the Control Panel to install or configure Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5" when installing MS.NET 3.5 SP1 reported by drummerboy08
  Possible fix: install MS.NET 4.0 Beta instead - not actually a meta bug but common problem
• "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" when dragging or entering variation value in the editor reported by hallv5
• Vast CPU usage when dragging values in the editor and possible application freeze reported by germanfafian
• Instant crash when starting application reported by haltenny

Thats all I've got yet. Hope I can solve this on next update which will be soon but I won't tell a data. Keep watching the #Metaphysis blog!

As you may have seen, there has been a wave of new variations for Apophysis. I want to summarize them up here so you can check them out in case you did not yet (hey, some shameless self promotion may be forgiven - it's my journal )

There will be more in the future. I have a nice pile of ideas floating around here and whatever comes out will be shared!

Well, as mentioned above, I entered the final phase of my studies this autumn. There is a rather small amount of exams remaining and as it was told to me, it should be no problem to pass them. But what happens after I got them? Well, easy said - I will be off some time. Finding new apartment, a stable job - all this needs time which means I'm not here every day anymore. But don't worry! It is probably autumn next year so there is still time. The financial situation over here is quite not the best, tho - so some off time to find well-paid freelance jobs is possible. Basically no problem but the economy... *sigh* Anyway - for now I've still got some free time and I'll use it to bring in artsy & code'sy stuff!

As promised, I will make a technical preview version public today for you to play.

Please read the following before you proceed.

This is an alpha version of Metaphysis. This means, it is neither feature-ready nor stable yet. As the name states, it is a preview. Please keep this in mind when you are downloading and using it.

You will need the Microsoft .NET Framework Version 3.5 SP1 to run it. Users of Windows 7 should already have it but I recommend you to check. Whenever you are not sure whether it is on your PC or you clearly know you don't have it - download the installer, run it and follow the steps it provides. You will get notified if you already have the correct version of the .NET Framework installed.


After you made sure you have the correct .NET version, download the archive containing the Metaphysis program files:


Now a few words on stability and crash/bug reporting

Allthough I try to provide a rather stable version, crashes may happen. But don't be sad, the group team will help you!
It saves the flame you are working on when crashing but data loss may happen some time. Save your flame often!

Whenever you experience a crash or find a bug you would like to submit, you can do so on two places: the Support section on the SourceForge project site and via a note to this group:


If there is a crash, provide the files error.txt and messages.log for every case. If there is a bug (where "bug" means a feature works wrong but does not cause crash), clearly describe it by providing the following information:

• What feature causes or contains the bug?
• What do you expect it to do?
• What does it instead?

I will do my very best to keep attention on all incoming messages but you must be patient, not everything can be done instantly.

Now get the preview, have some fun and keep up your awesome support so the beta can come soon!

The Black and White contest held by *vulcania is over - the winners are chosen (see here) and I promised to feature the gallery of the first place winner which is *Viktalon - my congratulations

His gallery is full of stunning portrait drawings, some realistic, some "comic'ish". I can not believe that this deviant is so unknown even if he is here over a half year and shows that much talent. Please enjoy these pieces and make sure you also see the rest of the gallery. It's totally worth it:

The Black and White contest held by *vulcania is over - the winners are chosen (see here) and I promised to feature the gallery of the first place winner which is *Viktalon - my congratulations

His gallery is full of stunning portrait drawings, some realistic, some "comic'ish". I can not believe that this deviant is so unknown even if he is here over a half year and shows that much talent. Please enjoy these pieces and make sure you also see the rest of the gallery. It's totally worth it: