What's new in MovingPhotos3D 1.8.1
Nov 18, 2013
- Built for Mountain Lion, Mavericks, and later. Does not work on Lion and earlier. Conversely, 1.8 will not work on Mountain Lion and later.
- Finally, developer signed to avoid warning message on install.
New in MovingPhotos3D 1.8.1 Alpha (Sep 13, 2013)
- Built for Mountain Lion and later. Does not work on Lion and earlier. Conversely, 1.8 will not work on Mountain Lion and later.
New in MovingPhotos3D 1.8 (Sep 15, 2011)
- New curving wall shape!
- Cube and spiral now always appear rotated.
- Back off the zoom just a tad for large displays.
New in MovingPhotos3D 1.7 (Feb 2, 2011)
- New clock shape!
- Owners of the Mac App Store app are automatically licensed for the screen saver.
- Fix issue that caused users to get a message that the new version was actually older when they updated to 1.61.
New in MovingPhotos3D 1.6.1 (Jan 15, 2011)
- Fixed bug that caused System Preferences to crash for 10.5 (and possibly 10.6 32 bit) users.
- Fixed bug that caused photos to sometimes end up oriented 90 degrees off.
New in MovingPhotos3D 1.6 (Dec 11, 2010)
- Shapes now appear at all kinds of crazy angles.
- New dual checkerboard shape!
- New square tube shape!
- Reduce unattractive pixellation/shimmering when photos are small or viewed at an extreme angle.
- Finally fix the bug that caused the remains of previous shapes to hang about for a while before the screen saver cleared them off and went on to the next shape.
- Reduce upside down photos in rings shape.
- Change default text for photos form words shape.
- Internal changes to support a standalone app version of MovingPhotos3D.
New in MovingPhotos3D 1.52 (Nov 11, 2010)
- Fixed iPhoto Library compatibility for iLife 11.
New in MovingPhotos3D 1.51 (Oct 1, 2010)
- 10.5 Leopard compatibility, FINALLY!
- Fixed crash on exiting demo mode for 10.6 32 bit and 10.5 users.
New in MovingPhotos3D 1.5 (Sep 2, 2010)
- New rings shape!
- Fine tuned zooming behavior.
- Default to running a bit faster for new users.
- Replace images with new ones a bit less frequently.
- Cube and sphere now run at normal speed, not twice as slow as the other shapes.
- Added a brief hold after each shape is constructed, to allow time to appreciate it.
- Partially fixed the bugs that cause pieces of the previous shape to hang around after the next shape is constructed.
- Adjust sphere to prevent photos from crowding each other near the top and bottom.
- More internal changes to support iPhone version.
- Misc. internal improvements.
New in MovingPhotos3D 1.42 (Jun 21, 2010)
- Internationalization, Spanish localization, Japanese localization.
- Fixed tendency to pan left, showing the action more in the right part of the screen.
- Fixed bugs that made the zoom-out for the large sphere and text shapes non-optimal for some screen sizes.
- Internal changes to support a possible future iPhone 4 version.
New in MovingPhotos3D 1.41 (May 26, 2010)
- Basic Aperture 3 library support.
- Internal rearrangements for code reuse with new screen savers.
- Fixed mistake in description of "Photos form words" shape.
- Default "Photos form words" shape text to "3D" for normal quantities of photos.
New in MovingPhotos3D 1.4 (Mar 25, 2010)
- Use iTunes Artwork button, available if you have your iTunes library in the regular place. This is an experimental feature; let me know how it goes. Hopefully it will work reliably. Note that all iTunes artwork is included, not only music album covers. For example, iPhone app icons show up too. I don't currently know how to avoid including everything.
- Use iPhoto Library button, available if you have your iPhoto library in the regular place.
- New shape: your photos can now form letters and words! You can enter whatever text you want in the Adjust tab. Use commas to separate multiple possibilities.
- Users can now drag the license download link directly to the box on the Options page; no need to download the license file.
- Rearranged options tabs to simplify things a bit for new users.
- Made it less likely that a user sees nothing happen for an extended period after starting the screen saver.
- Fixed bug that distorted the aspect ratio of background images.
- Fixed bug that sometimes caused the scene not to rotate when multiple displays were used, or in the preview in system preferences.
- Fixed bug that caused periodic delays where none were desired.
- Some small internal improvements.
New in MovingPhotos3D 1.3 (Mar 25, 2010)
- New large enclosing sphere with cool zoom out!
- The cube is back.
- Improved transitions from some shapes to others.
- The sphere has more photos than before; more like the other shapes.
- The sphere can no longer immediately follow itself.
- Minor adjustments to the curving surface and scattered photos: they cover slightly more space, and photos are now the normal size.
- Switched to "trilinear filtering", for possibly improved image quality on some graphics cards.
- Improved labels on two of the sliders on the Options page.
- More graceful behavior if the user were to manage to un-check all the shapes in the options.
- License agreement now available in Options page.
- Miscellaneous internal improvements.
New in MovingPhotos3D 1.2 (Feb 25, 2010)
- Includes a new spiral shape, allows you to choose which shapes are used, and allows many more photos to be in motion at the same time.
New in MovingPhotos3D 1.1 (Feb 11, 2010)
- Includes a new sphere shape.