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If this is not the right place, feel free to remove it, but before this please let me know where I can ask for help for a newbie? My problem is as follows:

Some years ago I've participated in an Apo course, have saved the course tutorial in pdf format, and maybe this had given mistakes, anyway Apo 7X could not read the flames now, there is an error message: " invalid format" and "list index out of bounds (5)". In Apo 2.09 it's the same, but an additional message occurs:"Not enough coefficients...crash?" Here is an example:

<flame name="Dec080522-62" version="Apophysis 2.07 beta" size="200 200"
center="-0.553654743390358 1.29393468118196" scale="50" oversample="2"
filter="1" quality="10" background="0 0 0" brightness="8" gamma="2" ><xform
weight="5" color="1" symmetry="0.99" linear="1" coefs="0.996037 0.088942 -0.088942 0.996037 0.171967 0.037932" /> <xform weight="0.5" color="0" polar="1"
coefs="0.284832 0.840791 -0.634093 -0.857469 1.642189 0.252235" /> <xform
weight="0.5" color="0" linear="1" spherical="0.493" swirl="0.084" coefs="10 -0.889127 0.329669 1.846043 1.76536" /><palette count="256" format="RGB">
A17D54C7863DD28C3DDE923EDD8F3EDD8C3FD9893CD6873A
C97537C06A2DB76024A5521A93451186380E792B0C76290A
7327095C300F57341452381A53351A55321A523219503219
443F253F3F293B3F2D3441332E44392C48402A4C47225252
1F5A61216E7829798132848B368C923B94993A94993A959A
40888D3B8286377C7F3172772C696F2B62692B5B632B4D57
283F4C1C2A39192431171F2A181C251A1A201C1A201E1B20
3229204635235A41266F4F2E855E378D623995663CA56C3B
B06F36B56D31AD642DA55C2A9F58269A542388471A753B13
51220B441D093718082A12071E0D06180A061208070C0A0C
070E120C1E2215272E1E313A223640273B472A414D2D4552
2D404E2D3C4A2E39462C36422A343F282E352C282C332522
3F231949230E51250D5A270C5D260A602509611F07551903
3913052F0F09250B0D20090E1B0810120D120B1219031C23
022630013846023B4A033F4E044654064D5B064E5F044D61
044456053D4F063648053143042D3F022534001F28001820
00131A00091300081000080E000908000A04000C03020D04
0E180F1520171C29201F2B23222E26293627333D2B404331
55533E857F548E8557988C5AA08E57A68955AD8659B19161
A99B74A296709B916D847B656C6F615F6A664F6E754D797D
4B7F855C8A9361919B6799A377A7B282B0BC8FB7C298B4C0
99B1B297ABAA95A5A293989194887A937C678C735286683E
855B2B88531A975214A35611AA5B10AD5B12A65512A35115
A6521AA9551EAD5822B15B28AF5C2DAB5B2BAC5F25B66428
C97030D07C3ECE844FC18857B0875FA58463967B627F7267
6867684E5D6A3B586531525B264A511F454819424814464A
174C4F1B505321535627515A2C5058344D533C494E464548
4C444B54484C6651518161539C7757AE8A65B49C79B6AA8E
BDB29CC0B99FBFBD9BB2BD9D9EB69E88A9A16D969B53868E
3A7F89297B7F237F811D7B812373792B6F77356B69466C61
536C5C64685274624A825C41925F3B96623E996D4B957858
8D7E658C876F8687718685718B896D8E866891856498825E
</palette> </flame>

It would be great if anyone could help me to make the flames working because the tutorials are important for me to learn the basics. Thank you and regards

Coffein
tatasz's avatar
I suggest you try using some more recent tutorials, since apophysis changed big time from 2.07. There are many new styles, and many things that worked for old versions do not work anymore.

A lot of tutorials: www.deviantart.com/browse/all/…

Or drop at this chat: chat.deviantart.com/chat/aposh…
At first: Thank you; I no longer believed that anyone would anwser me. I'm aware what you said, but what do you think: It's hopeless to find the error in this flame? I thought as yet that a profi could see this in five minutes; isn't it? Otherwise I have to learn from the tuts here in Aposhack; this is right. Regards Coffein
tatasz's avatar
Its not error i think, its just a different format. I can try poking some old users, but not sure if anyone remembers =S
When i started fractaling 7 years ago, people were already using 2.09, and not 2.07, and havent opened even 2.09 for several years.
I dont think there is any error, maybe just some very old format.

Anyways, learning from newer tutorials is better, because you will not have those compatibility issues with pretty much every example and there are tons of new fancy techniques around ^^
You're right, I think this should be the way. because of there is no possiblity to test this; the Apo 2.07 beta has expired. Regards MC
tatasz's avatar
i think you can change your PC time and it will work, i recall there was some trick like that.
Excuse me, what do you mean? Is there a trick to make the flames work? Unfortunately my English is not much better than my Chinese :) (Smile) Regards MC
tatasz's avatar
I mean for 2.07. It is expired, but i recall changing the computer time may help with expired versions
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