Handling Missing Palette File

You may get this warning message: Missing flam3-palettes.xml file. Download & install it.

You have opened a Flame file that specifies one of the standard Flam3 palettes by index. Fractal Architect can read Flame files that refer to one of the standard palette entries specified in the file: flam3-palettes.xml. Or in the Color Gradient editor you have clicked on the Standard palettes Tab.

A Flame file created with Fractal Architect never creates a Flame file that depends on one of the Flam3 palettes. It always copies the color gradient into any output Flame file.

Downloading & Installing the Palette File

Fractal Architect no longer bundles that file with the application, so you will need to manually download it from the Flam3 source repository and put it into Fractal Architect's Application Support directory.

You will need to download the file from: flam3-palettes.xml or alternatively flam3-palettes.xml. This will bring up the raw XML file in your browser.
You want to then save it to:

Snow Leopard

~/Library/Application Support/FractalArchitect2/flam3/flam3-palettes.xml

Lion

~/Library/Containers/com.centcom.Fractal-Architect2/Data/Library/Application Support/FractalArchitect2/flam3/flam3-palettes.xml

You only need to do this once.

flam3-palettes.xml is part of the Flam3 renderer source repository. It is licensed under GPLv2.