- Available ZIP files for Java 6 or higher (includes launcher):
System Requirements:
- JWildfire runs on all operating systems with a Java 6 runtime, such as Windows , MacOS or Linux.
- The newest Java (currently Java 7) is always recommended, it usually lets the software execute faster
- If you have a 64Bit operating system (as Windows7 64Bit) you should always use the 64Bit Java runtime.
It will both be faster and let you use a significant larger amount of memory. You will NOT be able to render images in print resolution on 32Bit-systems or 64Bit-systems with a 32Bit-Java - If you have several Java runtimes on your systems the launcher tries to choose the most appropriate. You always can override this by choosing manually another runtime.
Support the author:
The software is completely free and has not any locked features or ads or other nagging things. You are welcome to use it for any purpose you want. Anyway, any support is very appreciated 
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JWildfireMini FREE for Android:
This app brings the magic of flame fractals to your phone! It comes with both the fractal evolution module “MutaG” and the interactive renderer “IR”, as known from the full JWildfire application, to your Android-capable device!
You can also find JWildfireMini at the Google Play Store
Special JWildfire builds for Java 5:Those are known to be slower, are not tested, but may work:
- ZIP (includes launcher): JWildfire V0.33 (04/01/12)
- JAR (plain app): JWildfire V0.33 (04/01/12)
Thank you so much for this my friend.I got your tut and wildfire will let you know the results on DA
i have downloaded this,but i felt it slowly when run ,how can soloved this?
The “general answer” is (I added this now also in the download section):
The software is designed for modern systems and may be slow on your system if you are insufficient on CPU power or RAM. Sorry for that, but at the current stage of the development process there was not that much room for performance optimizations. They are on a later schedule.
Feel free to drop me a mail at thargor6@googlemail.com for a more detailed discussion of your performance problems. In this case plz provide some information about your system (OS, CPU, RAM, Java version) and what the probem is (just preview rendering oder final image rendering or…)
Best regards
When I click the link for v0.29, this is what I get:
Multiple Choices
The document name you requested (/java/j-wildfire-0.29.jar) could not be found on this server. However, we found documents with names similar to the one you requested.
Available documents:
/java/j-wildfire-0.26.jar (mistyped character)
/java/j-wildfire-0.27.jar (mistyped character)
/java/j-wildfire-0.28.jar (mistyped character)
Furthermore, the following related documents were found:
/java/j-wildfire-0.29.zip (common basename)
Please consider informing the owner of the referring page about the broken link.
I downloaded the on ending in 0.29, but, I see no launcher or even an exe. file.
Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks in advance for your reply..
Hello Bob, you are right, there was a typo. But the file you downloaded is the right one. Just double-click the start.bat file after extracting the zip archieve you downloaded. If this doesnt work plz have a look at the page “JWildfire installation hints” (from the menu on this page above)
Hope this helps and you have fun
I’m running jwildfire in ubuntu/linux 11.04. I unzipped the download into a folder, jwildfire. I had to change the permissions for start.sh to ‘Allow executing file as a program’. Then i opened a terminal in the jwildfire folder and ran
./start.sh
It takes a few seconds to start, but it runs beautifully! Thank you thargor6! Now I have a new addiction to play with over the holidays!
I’m glad that you enjoy the program and wish you nice holidays!
Thank you very much Andreas.
Thanks so much for your brilliant work.
Thanks for your support
Thumbs Up Andreas. Thank you. You are fast becoming a hero for me.
Thanks
There are lots of features to come… after a small break 
I recently downloaded your fractal program and updated today to V 45. It´s wonderful. I`m so tickled. With a little bit of practice it will definitly be my favourit. Thank you for your excellent Work.
Thank you
I’m glad that you enjoy using the software. There is much more to come…
Andreas – I downloaded this about five hours ago and cannot leave it alone. I have played with fractal flames in other software before, but this is a superb program. So far I am only playing with changing the parameters and creating still images, and have yet to progress to animation. But it is so well-designed – and the GUI makes it all “intuitive”. And the results are beautiful. Thank you, and I look forward to seeing more of your work – and good luck with your animated submission for the FractalForums award.
Thank you very much for your kind words
I saw how stunning your render was in Renderosity and you mentioned the program and I just HAD to check it out! I’m downloading it now – just what I need – another graphics program for me to play with – LOL!
hi when i downloaded it for some reason it wont open and wont let me use it at all is there anyway you can help me with my problem?
You must extract the downloaded file, it is an *.zip archive.
Best regards
I can’t seem to open this on my mac and gives only the win32 or win 64 option….am I doing something wrong ? Any help would be great !
You must extract the downloaded file, it is an *.zip archive. After that you just must invoke the *.jar file and/or read the README_LAUNCH.txt file. Best regards
Thanks Andreas,
Been waiting for this version (.57) and now I can go play!!
You are a great coder!
Cheers,
Craig
P.S. See you on FB and DA
Thanks my friend, and have fun
Thank you so much.
hey this program was working wonderfully for me for the longest time but recently i’ve been unable to actually maximize the window. The program seems to be running but simply in a minimized window…any advice?
Do you mean the outer desktop window (which contains all of the program’s windows) or the window of flame fractal editor? Both of them can be sized/minimized/maximized freely
the outer desktop window and how would i go about making it a usable size? when i click the icon on my task bar nothing happens and the only option given when i right click the java icon is “close”
The outer desktop window is a standard window and should be able to resized freely like any other window. Is it too small or too large?
i love this program, i wish there was a way i could use apo scripts on it though, or wish there were more jwildfire scripts to venture with!
rick~
The next release will feature some more scripts created at the JWildfire users group, it will come in 2 about weeks
Hi Can this run on Mountain Lion OS X 10.8.2 (12C60)? if so how?
Hi, this runs on every system which runs at least Java 6. But Java 7 is recommended, it runs the program faster.
Best regards
I would love to give this software a try but can’t seem to get past the launcher. I can’t seem to get in installed onto my computer. Using windows 8
If you have problems to start the program please start it with the Debug checkbox enabled, and send me the error message you will get. Until now, 100% of such kind of problems are caused by missing or wrong Java runtime installation, and can be usually fixed in no time
if you like,I can help you translate it to Chinese.
wait your email
Hello fengda2870,
I would really appreciate if you could help with a chinese translation, I will come back to you later (probably it will need some weeks).
Best regards,
Andreas
Hi Andreas
I would like to make a donation but I am unsure what would be a correct amount, your opinion would be appreciated.
Oh, last night in our Photo club ‘Triptych’ two of my images created with Jwildfire and Photoshop came First and Second !!
Your program is certainly making an impact especially on my computer artwork.
Cheers
Dave
Hi Dave,
thanks for the feedback and congratulations for winning with your artwork! There is no “correct” amount, you can just donate what you want, any support is welcome
Best regards,
Andreas
I’ve been playing wit J-Wild for a while now and everything was fine till today. I downloaded/Installed the latest Java7 update 21 and now J-Wild won’t launch from the Launcher….Keep getting this when I hit start
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Executable name has embedded quote, split the arguments
at org.jwildfire.launcher.AppLauncher.launchSync(Unknown Source)
at org.jwildfire.launcher.Launcher.launchApp(Unknown Source)
at org.jwildfire.launcher.Launcher.launchAction(Unknown Source)
at org.jwildfire.launcher.Launcher.access$100(Unknown Source)
at org.jwildfire.launcher.Launcher$2.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$200(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Executable name has embedded quote, split the arguments
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.isQuoted(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.getExecutablePath(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Unknown Source)
… 41 more
Attempting to launch JWildfire using the command:
“C:Program FilesJavajre7binjava” -Xms256m -Xmx1450m -cp “C:Program FilesJ-Wildfirelibj-wildfire.jar” org.jwildfire.swing.Desktop
Seems to be a bug/”new feature” in the new java version, I must investigate it further…
Pretty much what I figured since it worked fine less than 24 hours before I updated Java. Thanks man, keep up the great work
Andreas,
Your new Gradient changes in v0.70 are GREAT! I am also starting to use the Mutagen section a bit and find it good for inspiration when I get to the point of “what next”.
You continue to amaze me with your productivity and your imagination!!
Thanks for all your effort M8!