November 14th, 2011· Multiple viewports!!!
· When you add a camera layer with the new menu item Layer > Add Layer > Add Camera Layer... a viewport is added. Every viewport has its own camera layer with its own settings and keyframe animation.
August 25th, 2011· Full audio support!!!
· BluffTitler now exports the audio streams of your video textures and audio layers. This way you no longer have to add audio tracks in your NLE and your audio and video is perfectly synchronized!
· Possibility to set the resolution of your webcam
· New text layer effects: XY-Slices, Z-Slices, Straight Slices, Round Slices, Vertically Revolved, Tubular Square, Light Discs, Light Bulbs, Extended Outlines and Ornaments
· New text layer properties: Slices Position and Slices Rotation
· New particle layer effects: 3D Cubes and 3D Blocks
· New model layer property: Submodel
· Possibility to attach a light layer to a camera layer
· Select a layer by double clicking on it
· Moving a layer by dragging it is now relative to the camera orientation
· Super fast shader antialiasing
· Motion blur export option
June 30th, 2011· Updated translations: Galego and Chinese
· New text layer effects: Extended Outlines and Ornaments
· Z-Bias properties in the text, EPS, picture and model layers to solve sorting problems.
August 3rd, 2010· Updated translations: Russian, Spanish, Polish, Farsi, Danish, Finnish, Italian, Urdu, Ewe, Bahasa Indonesia, French, Norwegian and Korean
· Shader antialiasing
· Select a layer by double clicking on it
· Moving a layer by dragging it is now relative to the camera orientation
· Possibility to attach a light layer to a camera layer
· Minimum resolution has been reduced to 16 x 16 pixels
· New text layer effects: XY-Slices, Z-Slices, Straight Slices, Round Slices, Vertically Revolved, Tubular Square, Light Discs and Light Bulbs
· New text layer properties: Slices Position and Slices Rotation
· New particle layer effects: 3D Cubes and 3D Blocks
· Optimized and improved particle rendering
· New model layer property: Submodel
· Motion blur
· Bugfix: model layer now uses the normals as stored in the .x file
· Bugfix: dropdown menu is no longer rendered in disabled style after displaying a dialog
· Bugfix: FX properties are now visible in picture layers using the Fullscreen and Skybox effects
· Bugfix: memory leak fixed when using flashes of lightning with branching
· Bugfix: ghost shadow on far clipping plane removed
February 8th, 2010· Bugfix: FX properties are now visible in picture layers using the Fullscreen and Skybox effects
January 25th, 2010· dated translations: Russian, Spanish, Polish, Farsi and Danish
· Select a layer by double clicking on it
· Moving a layer by dragging it is now relative to the camera orientation
· Possibility to attach a light layer to a camera layer
· Bugfix: model layer now uses the normals as stored in the .x file
· Bugfix: dropdown menu is no longer rendered in disabled style after displaying a dialog
January 15th, 2010· New layer: Container layer
· New layer: Lightning layer
· New layer: Lense Flare layer
· New layer: Voxel layer
· Playlists. Choose Settings > Playlist Window to display the playlist window
· Shell window. Choose Settings > Shell Window to display the shell window
· New menu item: File > Export as Template...
· Blackmagic DeckLink output (only in iTV version)
· Support for multi-monitor systems
· Advanced time tags in the text layer
· Options dialog: choose Settings > General Options...
· Vertical align composition effects in the text layer
· New light layer properties: Shadow Softness, Beam Colour, Flare Size and Flare Colour
· Shadows and lightbeams are now generated by text, EPS, picture, model and sketch layers
· New text layer effect: Single Sided
· New text layer property: Encrypt
· New picture layer effects: Single Sided, Skybox and 2D in Foreground
· New particle layer effects: Pointing Upwards and Pointing towards Flight Direction
· New particle layer properties: Chameleon, Effect Size, Launch Colour, Launch Colour Tolerance, Grid and Target Layer
· New sketch layer effects: Attached Layers point Upwards and Attached Layers follow Sketch
· New scroller layer property: Transparency
· New plasma layer effects: Horizontal, Vertical and Radial Gradient
· New sketch layer effect: Square
· New model layer property: Colour
· New passe-partout layer effects: Vertical Bars and Horizontal Bars
· All demo shows that come with the installer now have the widescreen (16:9) aspect ratio
· 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
· Optimized rendering for realtime applications
· Advanced IPC commands and command line options for system integration
· Option to export as compressed AVI with transparency info (compressed 32 bits RGBA)
· Bitmap fonts: press the new Select Bitmap Font button in the font dialog. Use Alphabix to create bitmap fonts
· Video layer can play animated GIF files
· Video layer is updated when timeslider is moved
· Attach borders to picture, video and video capture layers
· Volume property in audio and video layers
· 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
· Use IE proxy settings option in the internet options dialog
· Premultiplied alpha channel in SDI output and video export
· Support for UNC paths
· Intuitive camera position mouse control
· Proper Would you like to overwrite? messagebox when saving show with all media files
January 15th, 2010Software 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)
January 15th, 2010· 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
January 15th, 2010· 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 property: Transparency
January 15th, 2010· 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
January 15th, 2010· 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
January 15th, 2010· 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
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