Boris FX Continuum 2023 16.0 (Adobe)

What's new in this version:

New BCC+ Atmospheric Glow Effect:
- An exciting new glow style mega-filter effect that brings instant atmospheric looks to an otherwise flat scene

10 New/Ported BCC+ Transitions:
- BCC+ Film Roll
- BCC+ Swish Glow
- BCC+ Swish Pan
- BCC+ Swish Prism
- BCC+ Swish Warp
- BCC+ Linear Wipe
- BCC+ Radial Wipe
- BCC+ Rectangular Wipe
- BCC+ Texture Wipe
- BCC+ Vignette Wipe

Particle Illusion Feature Enhancements:
- New 2023 Emitter Library
- Performance - many combined performance improvements for big boosts in both interactive update and rendering speeds
- Revised user interface with cleaner layout and better grouping of parameters in the control panel
- New Fluid Swirling Frequency for enhanced stylistic control of fluid motion
- New Affected by Fluids control allows fluid forces to be skipped on some emitters
- New Force Feather controls gradual falloff in the strength of a Force object around its edges
- New Emit From 3D Normals for alternate 3D Model emission style
- Numerous UI Refinements Including
- Param De-emphasis - params that currently have no effect are drawn grayed out (based on other properties of the setup including in other nodes)
- Alpha Gradient now directly accessible next to color gradient in node view
- Scale Particle Number - control whether line emitters/mask emitters automatically scale up the number of particles vs leaving the particle count unchanged
- Stage Tooltips now work even in 3D view
- Numerous usability enhancements to Shape import/edit dialog
- Creates backup of saved file/library if saving would change the project version
- Motion Blur UI improvements
- Increase Viscosity, Frame Delay, and Number of Points parameter max values.
- Resizing the custom GUI maintains relative position and scale between window panes
- Many miscellaneous UI tweaks and polish

BCC+ Light New Gobos and Tiling:
- 50 new, seamlessly tiling gobo presets in the Abstract, Foliage, Glass, and Texture categories. Choose the “New” tag in the FX Editor to see them all.
- New Edge Mode option with Wrap and Reflect abilities that let you infinitely tile textures

BCC+ Film Glow - New Secondary Glow:
- A new set of independent secondary glow params allows chained glows for easier creation of more diverse looks

New Presets Across a Variety of Filters:
- BCC+ Beauty Studio
- BCC+ Camera Shake
- BCC+ Chroma Bands
- BCC+ Chromatic Aberration
- BCC+ Develop
- BCC+ Film Glow
- BCC+ Light Leaks
- BCC+ Prism
- BCC+ Vignette
- BCC+ X-Ray

Improved Mocha Performance:
- Tracking performance has been improved by up to 50% on Apple Silicon hardware

Title Studio Enhancements:
- Missing Font Reporting - will now automatically check for and report any missing fonts that are being used in a project
- Title Studio and the other 3D Objects filters are now supported again on Mac Adobe hosts such Resolve
- C4D import now supported on Apple Silicon hardware

BCC+ Film Grunge Refinements:
- Gate Weave section has new Auto Scale option and expanded ranges. Allows more stylized, dramatic weave/shake looks.

Other Fixes and Polish in Continuum 2023 (v16.0.0) for Adobe:
- Film Stocks and other BCC+ filters with Curves control - Fix rendering clamped on Apple Silicon hardware
- BCC+ Transitions - adjust timing so transition reaches full completion on the last frame. May affect the perceived timing of transitions by 1 frame in saved projects.
- BCC+ Rays - Rays Only mode now reflects the Brightness and Color params
- BCC+ Light - Fix missing thumbnail images for Glass texture category on Windows
- BCC+ Light - Fix shear direction
- BCC+ Film Grunge - Fix asymmetric Gate Weave
- BCC+ Vignette - Fix premultiplication issues when applied to alpha clips
- BCC+ Vignette - CPU mode did not produce the same result as GPU
- Title Studio - 3D models sometimes have small polygon alignment changes after saving/reopening
- Title Studio - updated some presets that referenced OS-specific fonts
- Title Studio - Prevent invalid media formats from being selected as texture tracks
- Particle Illusion - Fixed Affect Fluid control in free emitter
- Particle Illusion - Improved support for several C4D and OBJ emitter files
- Particle Illusion - Fix “over life” graphs animation detection
- Particle Illusion - “Threshold Angle” not working as expected for “Vertices” emission.
- Particle Illusion - “Attached” particles should stick to 3D model when model scale changes.
- Particle Illusion - Position turbulence with free emitters is not applied to first frame of free emitter’s life
- Particle Illusion - Presets/projects with 3D Models made on Mac don’t render in host on Win and vice versa
- Particle Illusion - Improved graph view bezier handles
- Particle Illusion - Some particles appear “stuck” at fluids boundary when leaving force area
- Particle Illusion - Renamed saved emitter loads up with original name not the new one
- Particle Illusion - particles do not scale with 3D model and always emit from the original size of the model
- Particle Illusion - Motion Blur button (and menu) are now set correctly and disabled when motion blur is forced on or off by host.
- Particle Illusion - when using host camera, only show “using host camera” in Controls View instead of showing all camera parameters
- Particle Illusion - Improve error handling for unsupported library versions