Valentine's Day content

The eagle-eyed among you will have already seen the Valentine's Day contest. You'll also be poring over the picture that accompanies it, looking for hints of new things to come. Here it is again, without the text over the top.

Yes, there's new romantic stuff in there. We'll tell you more soon. Very soon. And yes, you will get it in time for the contest. Don't say we don't love you!

Give Moviestorm points away!

For a while, you've been asking for a way to give Moviestorm packs to your friends. We've now got a system in place so you can do just that.

On the marketplace page, in the account section on the right, you'll see a new option to donate points. Click this to give Moviestorm Points to your friends, which they can then use to rent or buy packs as they wish.

• You can only give points to someone who's listed as a friend in Moviestorm. Make sure you've sent them a friend request first, and it's been accepted!
• To get points, you have to be a subscriber. You can donate the points you get with your sub, or you can buy extra points.
• To use points, you don't have to be a subscriber. You do, however, have to give us payment details so we can set up your account.

Try it out, and let us know how you get on! We're particularly interested in hearing from any of you perverse people who likes to uses an obscure browser.

Moviestorm 1.2.0.2

We're currently putting together a small patch release, 1.2.0.2.

This is mainly animation support for upcoming packs, plus fixes so that Photostorm and Greetingstorm will work on Macs with Tiger or Leopard. There are also some changes to the content admin system, which will make it easier for subscribers to get new packs or to manage your existing rentals.

ETA - soon.

The worst Moviestorm crash we've ever seen

We want Moviestorm to be easy to use. We try not to dazzle you with an enormously complicated interface, with hundreds of buttons and menus. In some cases, this means that you can't get the level of precision you need for a certain task. We're always trying to find ways to let you do that, without transforming the Moviestorm interface into the control panel for a supersonic jet.

One of things that can sometimes prove difficult is precise positioning of objects in the Set Workshop View. Thankfully, we've got some new functionality currently in development which will help.



This gizmo is called the, er ... well, it's actually called The Gizmo right now, because we haven't come up with a more sensible name for it. It allows you to "nudge" an object by very small amounts, until you get it exactly where you want it. As well as allowing linear movement, the Gizmo (somehow I think that name is here to stay) also allows you to apply rotation to an object, in any direction.

We let Ben take the Gizmo for a test drive, and he got a little carried away:

Paypal update

It's taken them quite a while to sort out, but we think PayPal have mostly got our payment systems working properly now. We're still ironing out one or two little glitches that customers are reporting to us, but it should be fine for the majority of people.

If you've been hanging on for Paypal before buying packs or subscribing, please give it a go, and let us know right away if you have any problems at all.