June 9, 2025 (4.1.0.5)

“Synchronize with Music” improved
Copy & Paste improved:
- You can now copy a sequence, and paste it into multiple positions (previously this was only possible with individual shots)
- Previously, you needed to hover the mouse over the timeline to insert. Now, this is no longer necessary. Leave your mouse cursor out of the timeline area, and FWsim will paste there.
Bugfixes and small usability improvements

May 22, 2025 (4.1.0.1)

More than 2.000 new effects added to FWsim Collection. FWsim Pro now includes 6.382 realistic effects.
147 new effects from German manufacturer Pyroland Bothmer
Effect library window: If you search by text, the search is performed in all data fields of an effects.
Data Export: custom column “Index” removed, because it was ambigous. Replaced with “Cue Index”, which counts the firing impulses.
Position adding:
- New button to add multiple positions in a line or circle
- New button to rename multiple positions quickly
Labels Export simplified and improved: (video)
- Better design
- Now two formats instead of three: Per Effect, and Per Module
- “Per Effect”: You can now adjust each data field
- “Per Module”: Choose between a new 2D layout or the old Table layout
Cobra: Better handling of modules 36M and 72M with multiple banks
New DMX Devices:
- Showven Sparkular BT01/BT02, UFlamer, UFlamer Max, UFlamer Max Plus
Audio Export with SMPTE

All editions:

Fix: FWsim now always uses your high-performance graphics card (instead of onboard graphics)
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.

FWsim Pro:

New print design for Labels
New firing system: Voice Cues - use this if you have a manual firing system (with channels only, no modules) and wish to create an audio track for manual firing.
New firing system: Parente Firemaster (still in beta - please let us know how this works for you)

FWsim Pro Drone Show Improvements:
- Colors are now more accurate
- When drone LEDs are off, the drones are now completely invisible

Table View can now be shown docked, above 3D window
Select columns for Table View (right-click on the header)
Graphical Module Configuration, directly in the 3D window
Coordinate System is now shown at the proper height with Google Earth 3D environments

We want to make FWsim Pro simple and easy to use. Therefore, we removed some features. This might require you to make changes to existing shows:

In v3, you could put modules anywhere, and they would be connected with any position. In v4, every module must be associated with a position.
The option “Put stepper elements on nearby positions” was removed.
FWsim allows putting cues anywhere in the field, even when there is no position defined. In v4, such shows can no longer be exported to your firing system. Please put all cues on positions before exporting.

When zooming in on the timeline, FWsim now centers the zoom around the current cursor position.
Video explaining 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 selection in 3D window
Select position first, then add cues
Select multiple positions to add multiple cues
In position setup mode, you can select multiple positions and move them together
Stepper renamed “Sequence”
Toolbox made smaller, so you have more space for your timeline
Now using the CTRL key to select multiple items in the timeline, instead of SHIFT (to match the Windows standard)
When pasting, cues are pasted onto the position that is selected in the 3D window
You can copy shots from a single position, and paste them onto multiple other positions