What's New in This Release:
· 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
· 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... [
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