The long awaited, major update 1.5 for
Hollywood was released today.
Because of the great new features and the long development time, there is an update fee of $22 USD (only for users, who bought Hollywood before April 1st 2003). Hollywood 1.5 is available in a AmigaOS 68k version as well as in a native MorphOS PowerPC version. Many new features have been added to Hollywood 1.5, here are some of the most important:
* Support for multiple graphics layers
* Full control of layer position, size, transparency and light setting
* 68k version can also create MorphOS executables now and vice versa
* Over 50 new impressing transition effects (totalling in over 100 now!)
* Integrated image-processor that supports: Rotation, color inverting, gray scaling, axis flipping, texturing, mixing, lighten, darken, scale, stretch and tinting
* Support for Intellifonts
* All audio output is retargetable through AHI including full channel mixing and 16-bit stereo audio
* Full control over master volume
* Possibility to limit maximum number of frames per second
* Windows can have a dynamic transparency
* Joystick support!
* Powerful object animation functions
* Off-screen rendering
* New GUI
* Over 80 other useful new functions! (totalling in over 240 now!)
* Many new impressing example programs
Malibu, the Scala plugin for Hollywood 1.5, will be released in a few days. You can already order it in a bundle with Hollywood 1.5 and save some money. Malibu is also available in a AmigaOS 68k version as well as in a MorphOS. Please have a look at the product pages of Malibu and Hollywood to get the ultimate overview over both products.
