House name (on splash screen) draws correctly on all size monitors.
Fixed bugs relating to Sound Trigger objects.
On a grayscale monitor, displays house names on splash screen in white text.
Other minor bug fixes.
If a house has an associated QuickTime™ movie, "(QT)" is appended to the house name displayed on splash screen.
You can double-click on a house in Select House dialog to select it (same as hitting Okay button).
QuickTime™ movies display in TV sets (if a house has an associated QT movie).
Primarily, a host of small bugs were addressed for this release. From a player's perspective, most exciting is probably the addition of QuickTime™ movie support. If a house has an associated QuickTime™ movie, you will see the movie playing on all TV sets in the house. Do get movies to work however, you must have QuickTime™ installed on your Mac and enough memory allocated to Glider PRO to allow the movie to be completely loaded into RAM.
• 1.1.0 • Editor Changes •
Fixed bug when copying entire rooms (memory would eventually run out).
Send to Back/Bring to Front should no longer mess up up links.
"Pretty Map" defaults to Off.
Other minor bug fixes.
Support for QuickTime™ movies (appear in TV objects - QT filename must be "YourHouseName.mov").
Mostly, this release was for bug fixes. The only thing significantly new was the support for QuickTime™. If you wish to have a QT movie in your house, make note of the following conditions:
1) QT movies display in TV sets placed in rooms.
2) Only one TV at a time on screen will play a QT movie (for speed issues).
3) QT movies must be in the same folder as the house.
4) You must name the QT movie "You House Name Here.mov".
5) Movies must be small enough to load entirely in RAM (for speed issues).
6) Movies will automatically loop in Glider PRO.
7) Movies will be cropped to the size of a TV object's screen (64 x 49 pixels).
8) Movies requiring cropping may significantly slow down Glider PRO.
9) Movies created in 256 colors (standard System palette) play fastest, other depths may cause slow-down.
• 1.0.4 • Game Changes •
Lots of tiny cosmetic bugs addressed.
Completely rewrote Saved Games. Now can save as many games as you like (hit the <command-S> key).
The shredder is much more "grabbier" - it has a slightly wider range within which it will shred the glider.
Rubber bands will ricochet off invisible-rebounders and walls now.
It now displays the name of house loaded on splash screen.
Added new objects: deluxe invisible transports, custom pictures, invisible slide rectangles, a larger trigger, lift areas, and sound triggers.
In general then, there are a number of new objects, primarily invisible ones. Most interesting of these to the user though are probably the sound triggers and custom picture objects. These will allow for additional sounds in a house (like a cow mooing) as well as small custom objects (like a coat rack). The change perhaps more significant to the player is the ability to save games anytime and as often as the player likes. Sadly though (in my opinion), this complicates the interface somewhat. Because you can so easily save a game every couple rooms, a penalty was introduced for restoring a saved game - you cannot get on the high scores for that game. Imagine getting to the next to last room in a house and saving the game at that point. You could then repeatedly run from that saved game and in short order, fill the high scores from one game.
• 1.0.4 • Editor Changes •
Fixed a conversion bug when version 1 houses are converted to version 2 (minor bug, really).
Now correctly handle "replacing" files with the same names when creating a new house.
Merged left/right windows and door pairs into single objects.
Combined left/right fan into one object to accomodate "lift area" object on tool palette.
Added a checkbox to toggle the telephone on/off for a particular house.
Added a "pretty map" option so custom backgrounds are displayed in map (slower though).
New preference to suppress room create/delete warning dialogs.
You can jump from objects that are targets of a link to the source object that is linked to the target object.
Added a "Go To Room…" dialog - giving you options to jump to a specific room.
Selecting an "up" blower graphically displays height glider will go.
Added a "Duplicate" command to the editor.
If option key hit, arrow tool (selection tool) is selected.
Automatically add object pair (in adjacent rooms) for windows, doors, and stairs.
Pasting rooms into the Scrapbook displays a small 'PICT' version of the room.
Holding Option down when bringing up an edit window sets it to default location.
Lots of nice new features in the editor. In addition to the new objects (which should give you lots of ideas for interesting houses) there are a host of ways to "navigate" a house. Imagine that you set up two mailboxes in different locations in a house and have linked one to the other. Later on, as you are continuing work on the house, you come across the second mailbox and ask, "Where in the house is the object that is linked to this mailbox?" In other words, "How does the glider get here?" In 1.0.4, if you bring up Object Info on the mailbox there is a new "Linked From?" button that will take you to the first mailbox in the house. Another nice feature deals with "object pairs". Now, when you place an upstair case in a room, a downstair case is added in the room above (if there is a room above). Deleting a staircase however does not look in the room above or below for a staircase to delete. This adding of the matching object works for windows and doors as well. Lastly, don't forget that you can use the Scrapbook to copy and paste objects and rooms. New in 1.0.4 is a small picture of the room when you paste to the Scrapbook - this should help you remember which room is which. Besides using the Scrapbook to move rooms from one house to another, you may even wish to keep a number of "stock" or "template" rooms in the Scrapbook to make creation of a new house quicker.
• 1.0.3 • Game Changes •
If you crash your glider just after grabbing aluminum foil, you now (properly) re-appear with foil.
Fixed bug where, in 2-player games, if you grabbed aluminum foil, both gliders had a red strip on the tail.
Fixed more (hopefully the last) bugs dealing with running Glider PR on a second monitor.
Can no longer "spirit" through the floors of sewers.
You can no longer choose the Delete key as a glider control.
Houses are sorted alphabetically in the "Load House" dialog.
You can use PageUp/Down and Tab keys in "Load House" dialog.
Also, hitting any alphabetic key (like "S") selects the 1st house starting with that letter (like "Slumberland").
Dropped the "Resume Game" menu item.
In a 2-player game, the second glider appears "legal pad yellow".
Hitting the "Delete" key in a 2-player game destroys your glider (if you are unable to follow the other player).
You can now save a game anytime you want during a game (hit the <command-S> key).
2-player games can get on the high scores now.
In short, a whole slew of changes. Lot's of changes to the interface - in particular the "Load House" dialog. Numerous changes too to 2-player games. Saving games has changed - allowing you to save anytime you want during a game. Also, a handful of bugs with 2-player games were squashed.
• 1.0.3 • Editor Changes •
You can no longer link switches to stars (not a good idea to do that anyway).
Fixed bug where hitting Cancel in the "Bounds" dialog would abort (quit complaining of an error) Glider PRO.
Can no longer create situation where "Object Bad" would be reported for Invisible Transports.
Houses saved/created are now version 2 Glider PRO houses.
Fixed a bug with links (switches and transports) - the fix however necessitated going to a version 2 house format.
Houses are compacted a bit better (by stripping out empty room slots in the middle of the house file).
A check box in the "Bounds" dialog selects whether or not to draw a floor support - not the PICT ID.
You can link switches to balls, drips, triggers, fish, balloons, 'copters, and darts.
The above objects have an "Initially On" checkbox in their "Object Info" dialogs.
In 9-room mode, if a neighboring room is absent, an attempt is made to draw one.
In summary, there are a lot of new possibilities with switches - a lot of new objects it is legal to link them to. The biggest change however is the change to a version 2 format. What does this mean? If a person has an old version of GLider PRO and attempts to play through a house that is a version 2 house, they will bewarned with a dialog telling them it's potentially a bad idea to do so. In fact, should they ignore the warning and play on, they will find that all links in the house (between mailboxes, ducts, etc.) are messed up. The glider will transport to indeterminate places.
• 1.0.2 • Game Changes •
Fixed more bugs having to do with running Glider PRO on a second monitor.
Added two new objects: "helium" and "sewer blower".
In the Preferences dialog, added a new "Background Events" option.
When the glider is transported (through a mailbox, etc.) there is a new sound.
The invisible bonuses have a unique sound as well.
If memory is tight, Glider PRO will now attempt to turn off music and (if need be) sounds in order to load.
In general then, a few new objects were added - these objects won't show up when the house is played on an old version of Glider PRO. Also, the sound of "transporting" used to sound much like the sound of the glider "dying" and confused some people - there is a unique sound now played when the glider transports (through a duct, mailbox, etc.). Glider PRO accomodates low-memory Macs a little better now (although you'll have to do without sounds or music).
• 1.0.2 • Editor Changes •
Fixed a bug where you couldn't Copy from the Scrapbook.
You can now link two ceiling ducts to one another without getting caught in a back-and-forth loop.
You can Cut, Copy and Paste objects now (in addition to rooms).
If an object is selected in the editor and you select Copy from the menu, the object itself is no wcopied - not the entire room. You can still copy/paste rooms - if no objects are selected. Also, you can freely copy and paste between a house and the Scrapbook. This is a great way to move rooms and objects between houses or to keep a number of "stock" or "template" rooms handy.
• 1.0.1 • Game Changes •
Fixed some bugs when playing Glider PRO on a second monitor
In general then, there were new objects added. If a Glider PRO house uses one of these new objects, you will need Glider PRO version 1.0.1 (or more recent) in order to see these objects. The original Glider PRO 1.0.0 will not recognize these objects and they simply won't appear.
• 1.0.1 • Editor Changes •
Added "Bring To Front" and "Send To Back" to editor menu.
Added a "Go To" button in the Object Info of linked objects (like switches and such).
The editor changes don't affect game-play, they simply make it easier for you to order objects the way you want them to appear and make it easier to find objects linked to from other objects.
