The Most Authoritative List Of Mandelbulb 3D Tutorials On The Internet!

Training for all levels!

As with any skill you wish to master, training is critical. The skills you will acquire by going through the tutorial training listed below will propel you to the Master Level of Fractal Art creation! This collection of training tutorials could easily be sold for a few dollars per pdf, however, I provide it here free of charge so it can help the most people possible!

Here is an important tip for new users that may get a “missing formula” error.

The first thing you should do is to try downloading the Custom formulas & transforms from this link.  Once you download the zip file, use it to overwrite your existing formulas.

Remember that if you get a formula “options not valid” error, it could also be because you are trying to mix formulas from the last three columns with those in the first 8 columns. You can’t do that unless you select DE combinate as a hybrid type. You might be using a formula in the last column without using a shape formula from columns 9 and 10 along with it. Another possibility is that you could be using a formula from the ads columns without also selecting another formula from 3d, 4d or 4da columns to go with it.

If you load a set of parameters and you get a missing formula error then you need to get the formula that is missing and add it to your M3Formulas folder and restart the program and then reload it and the formula will be in its respective column. So when you reload the parameters again, it will no longer give you the missing formula error. So that question is answered. If you are getting a formula error from incorrect settings for the DE combinate then once you fix it, it will then say “parameters ok” and it will allow you to finish working on the fractal, if it keeps giving you the error then you didn’t fix the settings. There are a few things that can cause that error so studying the tutorials for DE combinate is the best way to figure out what you did or didn’t do that is causing the error.

Now, enjoy the following tutorials.

Fractals: Coherent Chaos with Anders Hjemdahl on MIND & MACHINE

Courtesy of Miles Van Yperen

Here is a video that explains the images above!

Alternate/DEcombinate/dIFS/escapetime

Start here and try to work through this entire list. If you do so, your skills will almost triple.

Some of these are a little dated but the instruction still applies to the current version of Mandelbulb 3D!

1. Understanding Julia and Mandelbrot Sets
2. Fractals for Dummies
3. The Mandelbrot Set and the Julia set
4. Navigating 3D-space (Mandelbulb 3D – first steps)
5. Mandelbulb 3D Tutorial by HalTenny
6. Mandelbulb 3D Tutorial 2 by HalTenny
7. Mandelbulb 3D Tutorial 3 by HalTenny
8. Mandelbulb 3D Tutorial 4: Basic Tips
9. Mandelbulb 3D Tutorial 5: Tips and Tricks
10. Isolating Structures In MB3D
11. Mandelbulb 3D Volumetric Light Tutorial
12. Mandelbulb 3D ~ Mastering 3D Navi
13. Mandelbulb 3D ~ Navigating Tip
14. Mandelbulb 3D and Heightmaps
15. Mandelbulb 3D ~ Light it up!
16. Mandelbulb 3D ~ Sphereheightmap
17. Quick’n’Dirty: Reflections and Transparency
18. 100 percent mirroring setting in MB3D by dark-beam
19. Intro to Mandelbulb 3D
20. Insight Light – A M3D Lightning Tutorial by gannjondal
21. Mandelbulb 3D In- and outside render by Sabine62
22. Mandelbulb 3D – Saving light settings by Sabine62
23. Mandelbulb 3D – Quick’n’Dirty Working with maps by Sabine62
24. Quick-n-Dirty: DoF (Depth of Field)
25. Amazing Underwater Object Tutorial
26. Custom Height Maps For Mandelbulb 3D
27. Mandelbulb Basic Light and Color Tutorial
28. Mandelbulb 3D DEcombinate Mix Mode Tutorial
29. Lyapunov modifier for MB3D
30. An Amazing Surf 2 Guideline
31. REFLECTIVE DIFS tuto
32. HOW TO BUILD GOOD LANDSCAPE with Mb3d
33. Q3D Bulb Tutorial
34. Formula MandalayKIFS – Tips
35. Mandelbulb 3D Apollo dIFS Tutorial
36. An Amazing Surf ‘Roots’ How-To
37. What is the Deal with Color?
38. MandelBulb 3D DEcombinate Mix Mode Tutorial
39. return of head-height map – Mandelbulb 3D with Parameters
40. Glass – IFSonly in DEcomb – MB3D with Parameter
41. Mandelbulb 3D Quick’n’Dirty Anti-Aliasing
42. Basic Intro Mb3D Formula Editor and JIT Compiler
43. Evolution of a fractal ~ a ~ to ~ z
44. Generating Tiled Images Using Big Render
45. How to get MB3D work on Mac OS X 10.9.1 Mavericks
46. How to Add a Background Image to Mandelbulb 3D
47. Mandelbulb 3D, my process. by eccoarts
48. Mandelbulb 3D Navigator Tutorial
49. To Cage The Dragon – PDF version
50. Fractalizing Yourself? Fractal Mysteries 01
51. How to use CondItcountSwitch
52. Mandelbulb 3D Quick Volumetric Lighting Tutorial
53. Mandelbulb 3D Gnarlies Different Way
54. Mandelbulb Julia spine tuto
55. Inside Amazing Box + IFS tut
56. WAY faster gnarl formulas. Sample params.
57. Using Positional Lights w Volumetric Light in MB3D
58. Basic Mandelbulb Animation Tutorial
59. MB3D to 3D Print Tutorial
60. Visual reference for MB3D Formulas (updated)
61. Koch cube minitut
62. Rendering with Mandelbulb 3D
63. Mandelbulb 3D – Negative Tuto
64. Mandelbulb 3D Theli-at style Box tutorial
65. Barnsley tutorial – new version
66. MB3D Burning Ship Tutorial
67. Visual partial guide to ‘GenCWarp’
68. Mandelbulb FAQ-suggestions
69. Mandelbulb 3D Z Start Tutorial
70. Survival tips for the Inside of TgladTetra
71. Amazing Box Spheres Tutorial
72. Specializing of ABox Bulbs 1
73. What Happens if.
74. Handling Your Balls …
75. Placing object in MB3D without 3D Navi
76. Volumetric Light Orientation
77. MB3D dIFS Shapes
78. MB3D: Field of depth guide
79. Smileys and DIFS playing
80. Egyptian Pottery … WTF?
81. Tutorial Mandelbulb 3D
82. MB3D Color Tutorial
83. ABoxMod2 is released
84. Tutorial Mandelbulb3D FLD – Amazingbox hybrid
85. EM_JIT_M3Formulas example images for M3D, official
86. Intro to Mandelbulb 3D Tutorial
87. Why I done an ‘alt’ Sierpinski
88. Mini tutorial on good old Mandelbrot in 3D
89. No more noise on reciprocal fractals
90. A Comparison of Structures
91. DE Combinate modes overview
92. Choose your own house
93. 3D Shape Quick Reference Mandelbulb 3D v.1.9.0
94. 3D Shape Quick Reference part 2
95. DIFS Shape Quick Reference
96. DECombinate overview
97. Quick Handy Tips For New MandelBulb 3D User’s
98. An Endless Winding Ladder
99. Tutorial: Placing object in MB3D without 3D Navi
100. MB3D: Field of depth guide
101. How do I program difs shapes
102. Quick visual reference to using Lightmaps
103. TextureGenerator-Online
104. NormalMap-Online
105. Mini tutorial about polishing cut fractals
106. How To Export A Fractal From
     Mandelbulb 3D
107. Guia Practica de Mandelbulb 3D
108. Mandelbulb3D shapes
109. Map Pack 2 by recycledrelatives 
110. 468 Mandelbulb Gradients 1 By Sharon E. Thomas
111. Mandelbulb 3D Gradients 2 By Sharon E. Thomas

112. Heightmaps Collection (165)