BluffTitler requires DirectX version June 2007 or later. DirectX is available as a free download from Microsoft:

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What you need is the DirectX End-User Runtime (version June 2007 or later).

All DirectX downloads can also be found in the Microsoft Download Center.

Please note: BluffTitler does NOT require DirectX 10 nor Vista: it runs fine on Windows XP. However it DOES require the latest version of DirectX, so even if you're running Windows Vista you might have to update DirectX.

version	BluffTitler DX9 7.25
size	6 MB
date released	Friday, July 11th, 2008

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If you don't like installers you can download the program as a ZIP file.

BluffTitler requires DirectX version June 2007 or later. If the program complains about not being able to find D3DX9_34.dll you will have to install the latest version of DirectX.

How do I upgrade to the latest version?

Version 7.25

Released: Friday, July 11th, 2008
Price: € 39.95, free upgrade for registered users!

Changes since 7.0:

• 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
• Menu items Layer > Bring active Layer Backward and Forward
• Mouse-over effect on 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
• Chameleon property in particle layer. With this property you can make the particle layer take over the colour of the parent layer
• Reading Order dropdown listbox in 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 now 2D: first slider controls the translation, second the rotation
• The Flexibility property of the text later is now 3D: setting the 3th slider to a non-zero value gives every character its own random delay
• Video layer can render Flash videos (SWF)
• 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 minutes to 60 minutes
• bugfix: relative link paths problem fixed
• bugfix: invisible plasma layer on GeForce 8 problem fixed
• bugfix: FX files with unicode file path are now loaded correctly
• bugfix: 32 bits AVI export issues fixed
• bugfix: Inverted bevel effect problem fixed

Changed and removed features:

• The Cube effect in the picture, video and video capture layers is textured differently. It now 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 now stays the same.
• The Cubes, Cylinders and Spheres effects in the media layer 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 for those shapes

Version 7.0

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're 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 3000 x 3000 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 will be 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 3.0
  Advanced effects like median filters, morphing effects and fractals are possible with shader model 3.0. 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 now be exported in the following file formats: .BMP(including 32 bits), .TGA(including 32 bits), .JPG, .GIF, .TIF and .PNG(including 32 bits).
  

New system requirements:

• Version 7 requires Windows XP or Vista.
• Version 7 requires DirectX version June 2007 or later. If the program complains about not being able to find D3DX9_34.dll you will have to install the latest version of DirectX.

Changed and removed features:

• The command line options /E and /KEY have been removed.

Version 6.0

Released: 2007-1-18
Price: € 39.95, free upgrade for registered users!

• 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, 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 > Active 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. Choose Settings > Internet Options to turn streaming on/off
• New menu item: File > Save Show + All Media files that is handy when copying shows to another computer or a web server.
• 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
• Support for multiple webcams
• BluffTitler can now create AVI files bigger than 2GB! (OpenDML Extensions)
• Specularity property in the model 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.
• Correct rendering of Hebrew, Farsi, Arabic, Thai and Khmer

Version 5.0

Released: 2006-5-1
Price: € 39.95, free upgrade for registered users!

• 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 textbox editable
• Particle layer optimized, maximum number of particles increased!
• Scroller Layer optimized
• Lighting optimized
• Smooth scroller layer
• Filmstrip support in the picture layer. Use the new properties: Number of Frames and Frames per Second
• Transparency property in Model Layer

Version 4.0

Released: 2005-12-19
Price: € 39.95, free upgrade for registered users!

• 3D model layer
• Realtime shadows
• Lightbeams
• Cloth simulation in picture and video layers
• Dynamic content: use BluffTitler to read RSS news feeds or as a photo browser
• Character Size property in text layer
• Bounds property in text and picture layers
• Pop-up menu with most important functions when right clicking on layers
• Open Type fonts support
• Two new bling bling font effects: Sequinned and Diamonds (pimp your titles)
• Decoration Density property in text layer
• Better Plasma Layer quality when exporting as AVI
• Maximum number of characters increased to 500
• Possibility to move the drop-down menu to the toolwindow and back
• Bezier spline problem fixed

Version 3.0

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 and Floating Cubes, Spheres and Cylinders
• 3 new particle efects: Blob (meta-balls), Spheres and Pipes
• 5 new text compositions: Spiral, Roll, String, Left and Right
• Passe-Partout layer
• 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
• Alpha transparency in Picture and Particle Layer
• Attachable plasma effects
• Hebrew language support
• Field rendering

Version 2.0

Released: 2004-9-1
Price: € 30, free upgrade for registered users!

• Cool new skinnable GUI
• EPS layer (limited support)
• Computed kerning
• Draggable keyframes
• VCR buttons
• Particle trail density and rotation
• Flat outline mode
• Camera arm length
• Transparent mode in particle layer
• Set transparent Colour menu item
• Adjustable MIDI channel
• Crosshair
• Video capture layer
• Undo/redo functionality
• Transparency effect
• AVI with transparency export
• Attach Border menu item
• Attach Particles menu item
• Audio layer
• Presets
• Plasma layer
• Particle layer
• Command line options
• Video textures

Version 1.0

Released: 2003-8-5
Price: € 30

• First release!