Version history BluffTitler DX9

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Changes from v7.6 -> v7.6.5

• 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

Changes from v7.6 -> v7.6.4

• 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 media layer bevel style: Single Sided
• 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)
• 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

Changes from v7.6.1 -> v7.6.2

• 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

Changes from v7.6 -> v7.6.1

• 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

Changes from v7.5.4 -> v7.6

• 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

Changes from v7.5.3 -> v7.5.4

• 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

Changes from v7.5 -> v7.5.3

• 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

Changes from v7.5 -> v7.5.2

• 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

Changes from v7.5 -> v7.5.1

• bugfix: demo mode (menu item Help > Demo) now correctly handles empty Media/Shows subfolders

Changes from v7.25 -> v7.5

• 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

Changes from v7.0 -> v7.25

• 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

Changes from v7.0 -> v7.24

• 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
• 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
• 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

Changes from v7.0 -> v7.23

• 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
• 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: flickering mouse cursor fixed
• 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
• 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

Changes from v7.0 -> v7.21

• 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
• 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: flickering mouse cursor fixed
• 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
• 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

Changes from v7.19 -> v7.20

• 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

Changes from v7.18 -> v7.19

• bugfix: flickering transparent video layer problem fixed

Changes from v7.17 -> v7.18

• bugfix: relative link paths problem fixed

Changes from v7.16 -> v7.17

• 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

Changes from v7.15 -> v7.16

• bugfix: correct soft returns for RTL languages (Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi)
• bugfix: flickering mouse cursor fixed

Changes from v7.0 -> v7.14

• 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
• JPG, PNG and BMP files without file extensions are recognized
• Reading Order dropdown listbox in font dialog
• bugfix: video capture layer problem fixed
• bugfix: menu item Settings > Move drop-down Menu fixed
• bugfix: pixel shader model 3 problem on Radeon cards 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
• bugfix: looping show with dynamic content problem fixed
• bugfix: morph to cylinder, donut and sphere fx problem on GeForce 2 fixed

Changes from v7.0 -> v7.13

• 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
• JPG, PNG and BMP files without file extensions are recognized
• Reading Order dropdown listbox in font dialog
• bugfix: video capture layer problem fixed
• bugfix: menu item Settings > Move drop-down Menu fixed
• bugfix: encryption problem fixed
• bugfix: pixel shader model 3 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

Changes from v7.10 -> v7.12

• 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

Changes from v6.14 -> v7.0

• Software Antialiasing
• Create videos with resolutions bigger than your desktop
• Post-Processing
• Effect properties
• Subtle material effects
• New file formats
• The command line options /E and /KEY have been removed.

Changes from v6.13 -> v6.14

• bugfix: command line options problems fixed

Changes from v6.12 -> v6.13

• Windows Vista export as picture and movie problems fixed
• Nice big Vista application icon

Changes from v6.11 -> v6.12

• Windows Vista export as picture and movie problems fixed

Changes from v6.1 -> v6.11

• 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

Changes from v6.08 -> v6.1

• Flat and Round shapes in Sketch layer
• New menu item: Layer / Attach Picture to current Layer...

Changes from v6.07 -> v6.08

• Correct rendering of Hebrew, Farsi, Arabic, Thai and Khmer

Changes from v6.05 -> v6.06

• 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
• Bugfix: Vista white AVI problem fixed

Changes from v6.04 -> v6.05

• 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

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