Major update15 Jun 2026FWsim 4.4 - Motorized Stars, Better Performance, and new effects featuresCheck out update 4.4! Here's what's new: ⭐ Graphics improvements · More realistic appearance of stars · Accelerated Rendering (Settings → Graphics) — runs much faster and uses less battery at the same visual quality. Available on NVidia and AMD dedicated graphics cards. · Even without accelerated rendering, this new update should be faster on all systems. · More realistic water reflections ✨ Ef…
Exciting news! You can now select your favorite effects and then insert them with just one click. This massively speeds up the show design process, so you can focus on your creativity. Furthermore: · Press TAB key to jump forwards to the next beat in the music · When you move the playback cursor, it snaps to beats in the music and to existing cues on the timeline. · You might have two cues over…
Hi everyone! Exciting news: This is FWsim 4.1. · Automatic detection of beats · Real location downloading is more stable and faster. · New star size: XXS
Fix: FWsim now always uses your high-performance graphics card (instead of onboard graphics) · Several bugfixes · Performance improvements · Updated Italian, Spanish and French translations. You can contribute to FWsim translations by clicking the Help menu. · FWsim now displays a correct waveform if you load 24-bit audio files.
With FWsim v4, planning your shows is now much faster & easier! Show Editor Improvements ➜ Better display of positions, with 3D cylinders - so you can better see where the positions actually are in 3D space ➜ Put steppers through multiple positions (this allows you, for example, to run a stepper in a circle) ➜ New “Fly Around” camera controls - more efficient & intuitive ➜ Comfortable angle sel…
Popping Flowers (Crackling) can now be adjusted in a much more granular way · Ascent Effects can now have strobing · 57 different kinds of crackling already included
FWsim 3.4 is here, and we are excited to tell you about it! · New Dark Design (you can go back to the old design by disabling “Dark Mode” in the preferences) · Improved Camera Animation System · Saving and Loading of camera positions · Topdown Camera View · Improved “Create New Effect” dialog with many more sample designs to choose from · Fullscreen Mode available (press ALT+ENTER to go fullscr…
Starting today, all Steam users will have access to the FWsim online fireworks database. This gives you thousands of new fireworks, made by other users, for free! Simply click Tools -> Online Fireworks Database to access. You can download collections of effects, or upload your own.
This is version 3.2.0.10 and brings the following improverments: · In video export, MP4 is now the default format. · MP4 format details changed. It should now be compatible with most video editing software. (If the file doesn't work in your favorite video editor, please let us know) · Effect selection filters more comfortable to use · Bugfix: Crash when adding a new firing line at the same posi…
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