Ultrafractal 5 - a little overwhelming

I bought the animation edition of UF 5 and I have spent a couple of hours trying understand the new object oriented formulas. They are a new way of thinking that is going to take some getting used to. There are many combinations and I find that I am second guessing myself all the time, wondering if I am using the classes in the way that they are intended to be used. They sort of remind me of Toby's monster coloring formulas. With so many parameters, it takes a while to find a combination that works.

I am getting the impression from the formula writers that the idea is to do a lot of exploration and try all sorts of combinations. This could open up things that have never been seen before.

My biggest complaint is that the pull down menus have been replaced by classes. For example, with trap shapes I like to scroll through a long pull down menu by highlighting it and then using the up or down arrow keys to find what I like. It takes a couple of mouse clicks to pick an object oriented trap shape.

Obviously there is a trade off between new possibilities and the old way of doing things and I don't have the experience to make a good judgement on that trade off. Overall though, I am excited about the new possibilities.

I have played some with the image importing capabilities. I'll write something on that later.