Take your animations to the next level with the brand-new Lottie Add-On. Enhance your already dynamic designs by integrating beautifully crafted Lottie animations, powered by the latest and most efficient renderer, with support for both classic Lottie and the modern dotLottie format, as well as Lottie theming.
This add-on creates a smooth bridge between LayerSlider and professional tools like Adobe After Effects, Figma, or Canva, so you can seamlessly move assets between workflows. Enjoy flexible customization and interactive playback options, including click, hover, mouse move, and scroll-based playback, for animations that respond to user actions.
This update also contains other UI and under-the-hood fixes and improvements.
Fixed transform origin issues in Loop Transition with infinite repeats.
Fixed several issues affecting parallax transitions.
Reversed the rotation direction in the editor when rotating layers with the mouse for a more natural feel.
Fixed an issue where the Liquify Layer Effect did not always behave correctly when used together with Loop Transition.
This update introduces the new Liquify Layer Effect, major upgrades to Scroll Scenes, gradient support for slide backgrounds, and numerous critical fixes and compatibility improvements.
LAYER EFFECTS
Liquify: Introducing a new layer effect that adds a playful, elastic character to your designs. Layers can now bend, wobble, and ripple like soft jelly on interaction, unlocking expressive, organic motion effects.
Borderize: A new Offset option lets you shift borders inward or outward, enabling inner-border styles, decorative frames, and more complex design layouts.
Replicator: The new Reverse Order toggle places generated clones above the original layer, allowing for inverted stacking order.
SCROLL SCENE IMPROVEMENTS
Scroll Scenes receive their biggest upgrade yet, with new controls and expanded behavior for more precise playback, now including partial multi-slide support.
Added Play From option: Defines when animations should begin based on viewport position, allowing Scroll Scenes to start animating earlier and appear already in motion as they enter the screen.
Added Stick Duration option: Controls how long a scene should stick to the viewport.
Added Create Per-Slide Embeds option: An advanced feature that automatically generates additional slide embeds, offering partial multi-slide support without extra manual setup.
Improved smoothness: Significantly reduced jumpiness when reloading or navigating between pages.
Start With Slide enhancements: You can now choose which slide the Scroll Scene should use, including the “random” option.
ADDITIONAL ENHANCEMENTS
Gradient slide background support: You can now easily create smooth, visually engaging slide backgrounds that integrate flawlessly with all slide transitions, even advanced ones like Origami.
New layer option: Skip min. and max. ratios for positioning, allowing layer positioning to follow the project’s actual ratio while all other properties still respect min/max responsive limits.
Project Settings now automatically reveals advanced options already in use, even without enabling Show Advanced.
FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS
Slide links now appear correctly in the editor when previewing projects, not just on front-end pages.
The Open Popup layer action now works correctly even if the selected popup isn’t changed in the dropdown.
Fixed Smart Background positioning issues in specific layouts.
A large collection of important bug fixes, significant compatibility improvements, and a range of optimizations throughout the plugin.
This update marks a major milestone with the introduction of Layer Effects and new transition capabilities, along with significant improvements to core animation features, and a host of performance and reliability enhancements.
Layer Effects
Unleash your creativity with a growing collection of Layer Effects, designed to transform your layers into captivating visual experiences. The first release includes four unique effects, laying the foundation for many more to come.
Borderize: Animate stylish borders for a refined, modern look.
Typewriter: Bring your designs to life with the timeless charm of typewriter-style text animation.
Replicator: Turn a single layer into many, creating depth effects, motion trails, or bold visual patterns.
Reveal: Use smooth mask transitions that expand and collapse to elegantly unveil hidden content.
Interface & Usability
To make room for the new Effects panel, the previous Link and Attributes sections have been merged into a single, streamlined menu.
Numerous interface refinements and subtle quality-of-life improvements throughout the editor for a smoother experience.
Core Engine Improvements
Static layers and the fundamental animation systems and timing mechanisms of LayerSlider have been re-engineered for improved reliability and precision. Transitions now behave more consistently during rapid slide changes, with better coordination between entering and leaving layers.
Major under-the-hood refactors and stability enhancements ensure more accurate playback and better synchronization in complex projects.
Loop Transition Upgrades
Loop Transitions received a major overhaul with several powerful new capabilities.
True randomness: Random values are now recalculated on each iteration, ensuring every loop feels unique. The Project Editor’s Preview mode now mirrors this behavior in real time.
Multi-step animation: All transformation and timing fields (duration, wait, etc.) can now contain multiple values, allowing multi-step animations. There’s a new Step Wait option to control timing between steps, which also supports multiple values.
Added a Resume option to determine whether each loop cycle should continue the animation from the layer’s current state instead of restarting from its initial state.
Operator support: You can now use arithmetic operators like +=5, -=10, *=1.2, /=2 to modify layer properties across iterations. Combine this with Resume for progressive animations.
Randomization and operators are supported in all relevant transformation and timing fields.
Enhanced Text Transitions
Both Opening Text Transition and Ending Text Transition now support an arithmetic cycle syntax, allowing you to generate progressive variations between text nodes (e.g., characters, words). For example, [+10] will create a cycle sequence of 0|10|20|30|40… This makes it possible to create incremental changes in size, rotation, or movement across text splits, similar to “Cycle values between text nodes”.
Text transitions now support a Mask option to animate clipping text nodes.
Additional Features
Added a dedicated Easing setting for Smart Backgrounds, giving you more control over the animation feel and pacing.
Added four new preset examples for the Mask option in Opening and Ending Transitions.
Many color pickers now inherit and dynamically follow the layer’s text color by default, offering new animation possibilities.
The “X” button in these pickers now resets to this inherited color instead of removing the value. You can still define custom colors or use the transparent keyword.
Removed Features
The “Export as HTML” feature has been removed following the shift in active development toward the WordPress version.
Fixes & General Improvements
An insane number of bug fixes, stability enhancements, and small UI improvements.
Improved Multi-select Mode and Undo-Redo reliability.
Fixed various issues when reordering slides.
Countless additional refinements. Far too many to list.
Reworked the saving mechanism to avoid issues with server restrictions on shared hosting, especially when handling large projects.
Resolved a potential video playback issue on mobile devices that occurred in rare cases.
Fixed an issue where the “External” Fonts section did not appear in the Font Family help window in some rare scenarios.
Enhanced the “Used in Project” section of the Font Family help window to include fonts from all sources.
Fixed an issue in Assets Library that prevented certain videos from being downloaded under rare conditions.
Addressed multiple cases where the “Use post image” option for slide thumbnails was not correctly reflected in the editor or on the front end.
Improved post-placeholder buttons to display a tooltip preview of the dynamic value, making layer content composition easier.
Rendered custom post fields inside the editor with their actual contents instead of showing them only on front-end pages.
Streamlined the editor’s slide-reordering so that dynamic data now refreshes correctly and automatically.
Fixed various UI issues and improved browser compatibility.
Other behind-the-scenes optimizations and fixes.
Parallax Enhancements
New Automated Mode: Simulates continuous mouse movement along a predefined path (circle, triangle, etc.) with customizable directions and timings.
New Random Mode: Simulates randomized mouse movements within a specified area.
Unified Parallax Settings: Slide and layer parallax settings are now fully consistent, simplifying inheritance logic and comparisons.
Workspace & UI Improvements
Restoring Workspace State: Automatically saves and restores workspace settings, including selected slides, active layers, sidebar menus, zoom level, and other editor preferences.
Dynamic UI: The interface can now dynamically update to display only the relevant settings based on the selected option.
Auto-expanding Layer Textarea: The layer content text field now automatically adjusts its height for better readability and easier editing.
Transitions
Exclude from Global Hover: New option available under LAYERS → Transition → Hover Transition.
Added support for using parallax transitions with Smart Backgrounds.
Other
Removed: "Use Google CDN version of jQuery" option from Plugin Settings → Troubleshooting.
Fixed a PHP error that occurred in very rare edge cases.
Fixed potential performance issues affecting modal transitions in Chrome.