New Update v1.18

Phew, this update was pretty big in terms of “figuring things out” but most of it under the hood. It’s led to some pretty cool updates though, including a more accurate animation export. I’d never been completely satisfied with the way animations were exported as in some situations the alpha/colour information was degraded. Now though I’ve finally sorted it for good hopefully, and what you see on screen should be exactly what is recorded.

There’s now also 2 options available for importing shapes. See File -> Import Options. You can now import shapes as full colour or greyscale. I recommend using greyscale to import all black and white shapes as it can often give better results for your effects.

And as an extra bonus, autofit is now more or less instant.

Available from the downloads page: http://www.rigzsoft.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6&Itemid=23

Here’s a full list of changes in this update:

* Autofit now much much quicker! Also hopefully fixed a bug where it wasn’t autofitting properly after changing the width/height by hand.
* Exporting animations should also be a bit faster.
* Alpha and colour should now be recorded more accurately when exporting animations.
* You can now set whether you want to import shapes as either full colour or greyscale. Set by going File menu -> Import Options.
* New option on the particle tab: Group Particles. This will group particles by emitter which can be handy on some effects that have sub effects. It’s effect wide, so checking this option will apply it to the whole effect.
* Fixed a crash bug when cloning an emitter and then trying to edit the active graph immediately after.
* Imported effects should now correctly pick existing shapes in the library and remember them the next time the library is loaded.
* Using the Global Zoom graph will now correctly work on emitters that use the splatter graph.

If you use the Blitzmax module, then you will need to update that to the latest version as well for using effects saved with this version.