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Version 7.6.5
- Release Date: Jun 7, 2009
- New text and picture layer bevel style: Single Sided
- bugfix: undo/redo problem fixed
Version 7.6.4
- Release Date: Jun 3, 2009
- Optimization: exporting as a movie file is about 2.5 times faster
- New container layer property: Transparency
- New light layer property: Shadow Softness
- Changed and removed features:
- The scroller layer is now lightened: use the the effect NotLightened.fx to turn off lighting
- The field rendering option has been removed: double the framerate and let your NLE do the field rendering
- Exporting with transparency info is no longer possible in combination with hardware antialiasing: use the software antialiasing option
- The following effect files have been removed from the installer: NotTextured_NotLightened.fx, Lightened_Additive.fx, Outline.fx, AntiLight.fx, Wireframe.fx, Fur.fx, NervousTic.fx, LostPixels.fx, Blobs.fx, GrayAndRed.fx and all fractal FXs. You can download them all from the gallery
Version 7.6.2
- Release Date: Apr 24, 2009
- New menu item: Layer > Attach Layer > Attach active Layer to a Container...
- New menu item: Layer > Detach active Layer from Container
- The Set Show Duration dialog now has options to add/remove time from the beginning
- All text compositions now take the Bounds property into account
- New particle layer property: Effect Size. This makes it easier scaling the whole effect
- New media layer bevel style: Single Sided
- bugfix: text layers attached to a container layer can now display dynamic content
- bugfix: property textboxes now correctly update when focused
- bugfix: model layer lighting problem fixed
- bugfix: particles are now correctly emitted perpendicular to the (rotated) launching surface
- bugfix: the top face of the cube is now correctly textured
- bugfix: the faces of the cube are now correctly sorted (required for transparent textures)
- bugfix: the container layer now correctly displays the plus symbol (+) in the layer and property listboxes
- bugfix: FXs applied to the model layer now can use the 2nd texture
- Changed and removed features: When using the Inverted text effect, all characters now have the same height
Version 7.6.1
- Release Date: Mar 24, 2009
- New menu item: Layer > Attach Layer > Attach active Layer to a Container...
- New menu item: Layer > Detach active Layer from Container
- bugfix: text layers attached to a container layer can now display dynamic content
- bugfix: property textboxes now correctly update when focused
- bugfix: model layer lighting problem fixed
- Changed and removed features:
- When using the Inverted text effect, all characters now have the same height
Version 7.6
- Release Date: Mar 16, 2009
- New layer type: the container layer
- When editing, the active layer is rendered with a local coordinate system. This can be turned on/off by pressing or by choosing Settings > Show safe Area + Arrows
- The possibility to attach picture, text, EPS and model layers to a sketch layer by choosing submenus of the Layer > Attach Layer menu item
- 2 new sketch layer effects: Attached Layers point Upwards and Attached Layers follow Sketch
- BluffTitler now remembers the view as set in the File > Set Show Resolution... dialog
- New text layer flexibility effects: if the third slider of the Flexibility property is set to -1, the text is animated word based, instead of character based. If the third slider is set to a value lower than -1, the order of the words is random
- Space Width properties in the text and scroller layer
- Transparency property in the scroller layer
- Tab support in the text layer in the Left composition mode
- Standardized order of the properties: all layers use the following order (if available): position, rotation, size, colour, transparency, specularity and end with: explosion, bounds
- All demo shows that come with the installer now have the widescreen (16/9) aspect ratio
- Optimized rendering for realtime applications
- Advanced IPC commands for system integration
Version 7.5.4
- Release Date: Jan 21, 2009
- Option to export as compressed AVI with transparency info (compressed 32 bits RGBA)
- Settings and About buttons in the select encoder dialog
- Better support for DirectShow decoder filters
Version 7.5.3
- Release Date: Jan 18, 2009
- Option to export as compressed AVI with transparency info (compressed 32 bits RGBA)
- Settings and About buttons in the select encoder dialog
- Better support for DirectShow decoder filters
- 2 new passe-partout layer effects: Vertical Bars and Horizontal Bars
- New menu item: Settings > Auto mark All Keys Checkbox
- New menu item: Settings > Limit Texture Res to Show Res
- New menu item: Settings > Reset all Settings
- The Size property of the sketch layer is now 3D
- bugfix: demo mode (menu item Help > Demo) now correctly handles empty Media/Shows subfolders
Version 7.5.2
- Release Date: Jan 6, 2009
- 2 new passe-partout layer effects: Vertical Bars and Horizontal Bars
- New menu item: Settings > Auto mark All Keys Checkbox
- New menu item: Settings > Limit Texture Res to Show Res
- New menu item: Settings > Reset all Settings
- The Size property of the sketch layer is now 3D
- bugfix: demo mode (menu item Help > Demo) now correctly handles empty Media/Shows subfolders
Version 7.5.1
- Release Date: Dec 12, 2008
- bugfix: demo mode (menu item Help > Demo) now correctly handles empty Media/Shows subfolders
Version 7.5
- Release Date: Dec 2, 2008
- Bitmap fonts!!! Bitmap fonts can be loaded by pressing the new Select Bitmap Font button in the font dialog. Bitmap fonts can be created with Alphabix
- Video layer can play animated GIF files
- New tweening effect: Overhauser Spline
- Encrypt property in the text layer
- Layers dropdown listbox is better organized
- Move all property sliders at the same time by holding down the key
- Control mouse sensitivity by holding down the and keys
- The information dialog displays more information
- bugfix: transparent pixels in text layer no longer emit particles
- bugfix: attached plasma layer + phong shader problem fixed
- removed feature: SWF
Version 7.25
- Release Date: Jul 11, 2008
Version 7.24
- Release Date: May 5, 2008
Version 7.22
- Release Date: Apr 22, 2008
Version 7.21
- Release Date: Apr 13, 2008
Version 7.20
- Release Date: Mar 4, 2008
- 6 new plasma layer effects: vertical gradient, double vertical gradient, horizontal gradient, radial gradient, horizontal lines and vertical lines
- 2 new effects in picture layer: rounded and abgeeckt
- Filled scroller mode
Version 7.19
- Release Date: Jan 22, 2008
- bugfix: flickering transparent video layer problem fixed
Version 7.18
- Release Date: Jan 9, 2008
- bugfix: relative link paths problem fixed
Version 7.17
- Release Date: Jan 5, 2008
- 3 new plasma layer effects: vertical, horizontal en radial gradient
- Video layer can render Flash videos (SWF)
- Maximum number of characters in the text layer increased from 500 to 1000
- Maximum show duration increased from 3 minutes to 60 minutes
Version 7.16
- Release Date: Nov 25, 2007
- bugfix: correct soft returns for RTL languages (Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi)
- bugfix: flickering mouse cursor fixed
Version 7.15
- Release Date: Nov 14, 2007
Version 7.14
- Release Date: Oct 3, 2007
- bugfix: video capture layer problem fixed
- bugfix: looping show with dynamic content problem fixed
- bugfix: morph to cylinder, donut and sphere fx problem on GeForce 2 fixed
Version 7.13
- Release Date: Sep 27, 2007
- JPG, PNG and BMP files without file extensions are recognized
Version 7.12
- Release Date: Sep 22, 2007
- Antialiasing Quality dropdown listbox in the File > Export as Movie... dialog
- Support for multi-monitor systems
- Possibility to link to HTML files
- Links to PHP files are loaded as BT or HTML files depending on their content
- Clean URLs ending on / are accepted
- Reading Order dropdown listbox in font dialog
- bugfix: menu item Settings > Move drop-down Menu fixed
- bugfix: encryption problem fixed
- bugfix: pixel shader model 3 problem on Radeon cards fixed
- bugfix: video and video capture layer problem on Radeon cards fixed
- bugfix: alpha channel ReflectionMap_Lightened.fx fixed
- bugfix: text layers using quotes are now correctly saved and loaded
- bugfix: XML attributes between single and double quotation marks are now correctly parsed
Version 7.0
- Release Date: Jul 24, 2007
- Software Antialiasing
- Create videos with resolutions bigger than your desktop
- Post-Processing
- Support for shader model 3.0
- Effect properties
- Subtle material effects
- New file formats
- For a more detailed description of these changes, please refer to this page
Version 6.14
- Release Date: May 17, 2007
- bugfix: command line options problems fixed
Version 6.13
- Release Date: Apr 30, 2007
- Windows Vista export as picture and movie problems fixed
- Nice big Vista application icon
Version 6.12
- Release Date: Apr 28, 2007
- Windows Vista export as picture and movie problems fixed
Version 6.11
- Release Date: Apr 19, 2007
- Font dialog (F6) has a dropdown listbox that allows you to choose between Computed Kerning and Read Kerning from Font. The latter option solves all problems with Hindi fonts
- Improved texturing of the sketch layer
- Constant Radius en Rounded Radius options in the sketch layer
- Smart algorithm repairs invalid font data (for example the Amit-normal font)
- bugfix: folder names with dots (.) are now supported
- bugfix: menu option Control / Play Fullscreen - wait for Key can now be used in combination with successive shows
Version 6.1
- Release Date: Mar 28, 2007
- Flat and Round shapes in Sketch layer
- New menu item: Layer / Attach Picture to current Layer...
- UTF-8 support
- XML attributes support
- HTML entities support
- Display specific XML nodes
- Add offsets to your XML node indices
- Correct rendering of Hebrew, Farsi, Arabic, Thai and Khmer
Version 6.05
- Release Date: Feb 27, 2007
- UTF-8 support
- XML attributes support
- HTML entities support
- Display specific XML nodes
- Add offsets to your XML node indices
- Changed behaviour: XML node names are now case sensitive
- Correct rendering of Thai and Khmer signs and punctuations
- Bugfix: launching 2 or more instances of BT at the same time no longer resets all settings, including your license info
Version 6.04
- Release Date: Feb 1, 2007
- Vista flickering problem fixed
Version 6.03
- Release Date: Jan 27, 2007
- bugfix: dropdown menus no longer switch to built-in English when adding/removing the tool window
- bugfix: shows can now link to themselves
Version 6.02
- Release Date: Jan 24, 2007
- Hebrew, Farsi and Arabic problems fixed
- Minor problem with tool window size fixed
Version 6.0
- Release Date: Jan 19, 2007
- New:
- Browser panel with Back, Forward, Refresh, Stop Loading and Home buttons, URL combo box and status bar
- Redesign GUI buttons
- All media files including textures, videos, model, FX and .BT show files can now be downloaded from the internet by using paths starting with http:
- Hyperlinks: add links to layers with the new menu item: Layer / Layer Properties
- Successive shows: automatically open and start a new show when the current show ends with the menu item File / Show Properties
- Sketch layer: animate EPS files created with Bixelangelo
- Video and audio files can be streamed from the internet. Select Settings / Internet Options to turn streaming on/off
- Turn the browser panel on/off with the menu item Settings / Browser mode
- Turn the tool window on/off with the menu item Settings / Tool Window
- New menu item: File / Save Show + All Media files that is handy when copying shows to another computer, a web server or for gallery uploads
- New menu items: Favorites / Add to Favorites and Favorites / Organize Favorites
- New menu item: Settings / Internet Options
- Video layer can handle WMV, WMA and MOV files
- 7 new shapes added to the picture layer
- Textures, Meshes, Models and Pools are shared between layers and successive shows: shows load faster and use less memory
- Undo and Redo performs a lot faster
- Three new command line options: /O=R, /O=A and /C=2. Type BlufffTitler /? from the command prompt for more info
- Full unicode support: select the unicode character set in the Media / Change Font dialog
- Using filenames with unicode characters is now possible
- Changed and removed features:
- Menu item Settings / Auto Select Layer removed: clicking on a layer now activates the hyperlink
- Menu item Settings / Extra Smooth removed: shows now always play as smooth as possible
- Morph Stage property removed in picture layer: use FX files to create morph effects
- Cube shape in the picture layer is always a cube: use the Size property to create a block.
- Alpha channels stored in separate _alpha files are no longer loaded: use 32 bits PNG or TGA files instead
- Menu item Effects / Change Effect moved to Media / Change Effect
- BluffTitler can no longer be used as a screensaver
Version 5.08
- Release Date: Nov 15, 2006
- Support for multiple webcams
- Bugfix: attached particles are now correctly launched in 3D
Version 5.07
- Release Date: Oct 7, 2006
- Bugfix: exported TGA frames are now correctly numbered
Version 5.06
- Release Date: Sep 25, 2006
- Convenience: BluffTitler Show files (with the extension .bt) are now associated with the BluffTitler executable. This makes it possible to start the player by double clicking on a .bt show file. This association is turned on the first time your run the executable.
- Convenience: the player always tries to make the render window completely visible.
- Bugfix: the player no longer jumps to minimized state after playing fullscreen.
Version 5.05
- Release Date: Sep 16, 2006
- The most spectacular new features have all been implemented as effect files and published in the online user's gallery. The new effects include:
Antilight, blur, bouncer, camouflage, cartoon physics, digital hellfire, disney dust, film grain, fur, halftone, jumper, line art, lost pixels, madness, metallic glow, ministeck, mirror, particle spiral, phong shader, pointillism, rainbow, reflectionmapped decorations, rippling reflective water, rotating reflection map, seasick, sketch mapping, soft border, solar system, spheres, swoosh, volumetric shader, waving flag, white border, white noice and wireframe.
As you can see from the length of this list, the effect files have proven to be a VERY powerful and flexible plugin system! Visit the online user's gallery to download all the new effects!
- BluffTitler can now create AVI files bigger than 2GB! (OpenDML Extensions)
- Improved blur quality (post-processing)
- Specularity property in the model layer
Version 5.04
- Release Date: Jun 17, 2006
- Incompatibility problems with pre-pixel shader 2.0 video cards fixed and workarounds implemented for bugs in old ATI Radeon drivers. Please update your video driver!
- Plasma layer now happily accepts effect files!
- Resolution dialog now remembers the selected preset
- 2 new shader variables: MyTextureResolution0 and MyTextureResolution1
- Pressing the Undo/Redo button no longer changes the current time and selected layer
- New menu item: Control/Play Fullscreen - wait for Key. In this mode the program switches to fullscreen, but doesn't start playing until you press a key. It also doesn't return to windowed mode before you press the <Escape> key.
Version 5.0
- Release Date: May 2, 2006
- Support for DirectX effect files!!
- Bump Mapping (normal maps)
- Cube Mapping (with .DDS files)
- Muli-Texturing effects (combining different effects)
- Tonal Art Mapping (realtime hatching)
- Realtime filter effects in video and video capture layers
- Text morphing effects
- Z-Bias in particle layer
- Revolved font type
- Time text box editable
- Particle layer optimized, maximum number of particles increased!
- Scroller Layer optimized
- Lighting optimized
Version 4.1
- Release Date: Mar 1, 2006
- Scroller layer
- New menu item: Settings/Extra Smooth. Animations are played extra smooth when this menu item is flagged
- Filmstrip support in the picture layer. Use the new properties: Number of Frames and Frames per Second
- Transparency property in Model Layer
- Full transparent PNG support
- Sphere effect of the Picture Layer optimized for use as globe
- New menu item: Settings/Auto Select Layer
- New particle layer property: Rotation (the old Rotation property has been renamed to Rotation Speed)
- Changed behaviour of 3D particle models: they now always point towards their flight direction
- XML parser now supports HTML predefined character entities like € and €
- Minor discomfort fixed: numbers like 0.25 can now be entered as .25
- Optimization: kerning cache
- Bugfix: exporting as looping now works as it should
- Bugfix: exporting a videolayer with a FPS higher than the original now works ok
- Bugfix: when moving the dropdown menu the selected translation is now preserved
- Bugfix: the checkbox of the File/Set Background Colour dialog now behaves correctly
- Bugfix: menu item Media/Change Audio... now immediately changes the audio file
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