Whenever we tell you about an upcoming release, there's always a small flurry of people who tell us they're putting their current projects on hold until the new version's out. This time, it happened to me.
I was planning to shoot all the illustrations for the next volume of my series of filmmaking books this week. That usually involves taking about 150 images, of which maybe 60 or 70 get used. I generally do this by taking a full-screen screenshot of Moviestorm's camera view, then pasting it into Photoshop, and cropping out the area I need. It's a laborious task: even if each one only takes a few minutes, and even using macros, it all adds up. I generally allow 2-3 days to do it all.
Moviestorm 1.5 includes a new feature that's going to make a real difference to this process. In the camera view, there's now a screenshot button that exports a still. No more PRT-SCRN - flip to Photoshop - paste - save - flip back to Moviestorm every time I want an image. Just click, and the job's done. Even better, I won't have to suffer my PC running out of memory once I'm dealing with Photoshop files that have vast numbers of layers of high-def images. I reckon it's going to save me at least a day's work.
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
Tuesday, 6 December 2011
All together, now!
This new feature for 1.5 brought a huge smile to my face.
You know when you've mostly built a scene, then you realize you need to change a few things early in the scene? You shift all the activities on the timeline and that's when you find that all your carefully set up timings are now just ever so slightly off and it's immensely frustrating to get them all back again.
With the new timeline grouping feature, you can CTRL-click on several activities at once and move them all at the same time. Voila! Your timings are preserved. No more fiddly adjusting everything back to how it was.
That's going to be a huge time-saver.
You know when you've mostly built a scene, then you realize you need to change a few things early in the scene? You shift all the activities on the timeline and that's when you find that all your carefully set up timings are now just ever so slightly off and it's immensely frustrating to get them all back again.
With the new timeline grouping feature, you can CTRL-click on several activities at once and move them all at the same time. Voila! Your timings are preserved. No more fiddly adjusting everything back to how it was.
That's going to be a huge time-saver.
Monday, 5 December 2011
Colonel Andrew "Flash" Kennedy
So, Movember is over, but my grips are far from! The memsahib is far too in love with ‘em (not).
Thank you to all that contributed to bring awareness to such a worthy cause – I am thrilled to say that you have helped me contribute £225 to the Movember appeal ...and in the true spirit of these things, I am proud to say that I have given my plums a good squeeze, and there is nothing to report. As for the clacker, I leave that investigation to another day.
If you wish to get a future missive on my hirsute journey, please let me know.
Until then, toodle pip and tally ho!
Andrew
Climb every mountain
The latest news on the 1.5 is that it's now in the process of final checking. We made some fixes over the weekend, and we're just giving those a last check. Assuming all's well, we'll have it wrapped up and shipped out to you guys by the end of the week.
Among the list of new features is the terrain editor, so you're no longer constrained to flat sets. Here's a couple of very quick examples of what you can do with it.
Among the list of new features is the terrain editor, so you're no longer constrained to flat sets. Here's a couple of very quick examples of what you can do with it.
Saturday, 3 December 2011
Movember update
And here's Andrew's completed whiskers. We'll get a proper photo done shortly to show them to you in all their magnificence!
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