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Version 7.6.5
Released: Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Price: € 39.95, free upgrade for registered users!
Changes since version 7.6:
- Optimization: exporting as a movie file is about 2.5 times faster
- 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 container layer property: Transparency
- New light layer property: Shadow Softness
- New text and picture layer bevel style: Single Sided
- bugfix: undo/redo 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)
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
- When using the Inverted text effect, all characters now have the same height
- 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
Released: 2009-3-16
Price: € 39.95, free upgrade for registered users!
- 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 <F2> 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 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 have the widescreen (16/9) aspect ratio
- Optimized rendering for realtime applications
- Advanced IPC commands for system integration
Version 7.5.4
Released: 2009-1-20
Price: € 39.95, free upgrade for registered users!
- 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 3D
Version 7.5
Released: 2008-12-1
Price: € 39.95, free upgrade for registered users!
- Bitmap fonts: press the new Select Bitmap Font button in the <F6> font dialog
- New utility: bitmap fonts can be created with Alphabix
- Video layer can play animated GIF files
- New spline effect: Overhauser Spline
- New text layer property: Encrypt
- Layers dropdown listbox is better organized
- Move all property sliders at the same time by holding down the <Control> key
- Control mouse sensitivity by holding down the <Control> and <Shift> keys
- The <F2> information dialog displays more information
- removed feature: SWF
Version 7.2.5
Released: 2008-7-11
Price: 39.95, free upgrade for registered users!
Changes since version 7:
- Vertical align effects in the text layer
- 6 new plasma layer effects: Vertical Gradient, Double Vertical Gradient, Horizontal Gradient, Radial Gradient, Horizontal Lines and Vertical Lines
- 3 new effects in the picture layer: Rounded, Abgeeckt and Star
- New effect in the sketch layer: Square
- Attach borders to picture, video and video capture layers (choose Layer > Attach Border to active Layer)
- New scroller mode: Filled
- 2 new menu items: Layer > Bring active Layer Backward and Forward
- Mouse-over effect in the picture, video and video capture layers with links
- Antialiasing Quality dropdown listbox in the File > Export as Movie... dialog
- Support for multi-monitor systems
- Possibility to link to HTML files
- Hyperlinks and attached particles take transparent pixels of the picture and video layer into account
- New particle layer property: Chameleon. With this property you can make the particle layer take over the colour of the parent layer
- Reading Order dropdown listbox in the font dialog
- 2 new bevel effects in the text layer: Convex Hull and Filled Holes
- The Explosion property in the text, picture, video and video capture layers is 2D: first slider controls the translation, second the rotation
- The Flexibility property of the text later is 3D: setting the third slider to a non-zero value gives every character its own random delay
- Maximum number of particles increased from 1.000 to 10.000
- Maximum number of characters in the text layer increased from 500 to 1000
- Maximum show duration increased from 3 to 60 minutes
Changed and removed features:
- The Cube effect in the picture, video and video capture layers is textured differently. It expects a horizontal strip containing the 6 cube faces
- The Model Repeat property in the picture, video and video capture layers works differently. The total volume of all the models together stays the same
- The Cubes, Cylinders and Spheres effects in the picture, video and video capture layers have been removed. Use the Model Repeat property to create those effects
- The following effects have been removed from the picture, video and video capture layers: Tetrahedron, Octahedron, Dodecahedron, Icosahedron, Pyramid and Cone. Use the model layer to create those shapes
Version 7
Released: 2007-7-24
Price: € 39.95, free upgrade for registered users!
- Software Antialiasing
With software antialiasing your exported video and picture files always look super sharp, no matter what graphics card, video driver and hardware antialiasing settings you are using. A nice side effect is that you no longer have to keep the render window visible when exporting
- Create videos with resolutions bigger than your desktop
For example you will be able to create the highest HD resolution of 1920 x 1080 on a 1024 x 768 desktop. Resolutions good enough for printing are also possible, like creating a 4000 x 4000 picture for use on a party flyer. In the File > Set Show Resolution... dialog you can select a view of 50%, 25% or 12.5% to indicate that the exported resolution should be 2, 4 or 8 times bigger than the render window
- Post-Processing
In version 7 you can select an effect file in the camera layer. This effect is applied to the whole render window as a post-processing effect. All filter effects including blur, median and charcoal can be used
- Support for shader model 3
Advanced effects like median filters, morphing effects and fractals are possible with shader model 3. Of course these effects will only work if your graphics card also supports shader model 3 (Geforce 6, ATI X1800 or better)
- Effect properties
Effect files used to abuse existing properties to make them controllable by the GUI. In version 7 effect files can add properties to layers. For example it is possible to create a Mandelbrot fractal effect that adds the properties Max Iterations and Colour Cycling Speed to the picture layer. Another example is plane-to-donut morph effect that adds a Morp Stage property to the picture layer
- Subtle material effects
Combine lighting, texture mapping and reflection mapping in any ratio: fine-tune your materials from dull to 100% reflective
- New file formats
Stills and numbered frames can be exported in the following file formats: BMP(24 & 32 bits), TGA(24 & 32 bits), JPG(24 bits), GIF(8 bits), TIF(24 bits) and PNG(24 & 32 bits)
Version 6
Released: 2007-1-18
Price: € 39.95, free upgrade for registered users!
- Sketch layer: animate EPS files created with Bixelangelo
- Full unicode support: select the unicode character set in the Media > Change Font dialog
- Browser panel with Back, Forward, Refresh, Stop Loading and Home buttons, URL combo box and status bar
- All media files including textures, videos, models, effects and .BT show files can be downloaded from the internet by using paths starting with "http:"
- Hyperlinks: add links to layers with the new menu item: Layer > Active Layer Properties
- Successive shows: automatically open and start a new show when the current show ends with the menu item File > Show Properties
- Video and audio files can be streamed from the internet. Choose Settings > Internet Options to turn streaming on/off
- New menu item: File > Save Show + All Media files which is handy when copying shows to/from another computer or a web server
- New menu items: Favorites / Add to Favorites and Favorites / Organize Favorites
- New menu item: Settings > Internet Options
- Textures, meshes, models and pools are shared between layers and successive shows: shows load faster and use less memory
- Support for multiple webcams
- BluffTitler can create AVI files bigger than 2GB (OpenDML Extensions)
- New model layer property: Specularity
- Correct rendering of Hebrew, Farsi, Arabic, Thai and Khmer
Version 5
Released: 2006-5-1
Price: € 39.95, free upgrade for registered users!
- Smooth scroller layer
- Support for DirectX effect files
- Bump Mapping (normal maps)
- Cube Mapping (with .DDS files)
- Multi-Texturing effects
- Tonal Art Mapping (realtime hatching)
- Realtime filter effects in the picture, video and video capture layers
- Text morphing effects
- New particle layer property: Z-Bias
- Revolved font type
- Filmstrip support in the picture layer
- New model layer propery: Transparency
Version 4
Released: 2005-12-19
Price: € 39.95, free upgrade for registered users!
- 3D model layer
- Shadows
- Lightbeams
- Cloth simulation in the picture and video layers
- Dynamic content: use BluffTitler to read RSS news feeds or as a photo browser
- New picture layer property: Bounds
- 3 new text layer properties: Decoration Density, Bounds and Character Size
- Maximum number of characters increased to 500
- Possibility to move the drop-down menu to the tool window and back
Version 3
Released: 2005-7-1
Price: € 39.95, free upgrade for registered users!
- Optimized code resulting in ultra smooth realtime performance
- 6 new pixel font effects: Pixels, Cornered Pixels, Rounded Pixels, Floating Cubes, Floating Spheres and Floating Cylinders
- 3 new particle effects: Blobs (meta-balls), Spheres and Pipes
- 5 new text compositions: Spiral, Roll, String, Left and Right
- 2 new texture modes: Masking and Additive Reflection Mapped
- 3 new text layer Properties: Transparency, Decoration Size and Font Size
- 5 new plasma effects: Line Segments, Circles, Triangles, Rectangles and Rays
- Passe-Partout layer
- New menu item: Layer > Attach Plasma
Version 2
Released: 2004-9-1
Price: € 30, free upgrade for registered users!
- Cool new skinnable GUI
- Optical kerning
- Draggable keyframes
- 2 new particle layer properties: Trail Density and Rotation
- New camera layer property: Arm Length
- Undo/redo functionality
- 32 bits AVI export
- New menu item: Layer > Attach Border
- New menu item: Layer > Attach Particles
- Presets
- Plasma layer
- Particle layer
- EPS layer
- Video capture layer
- Audio layer
- Command line options
- Video textures
Version 1
Released: 2003-8-5
Price: € 30