# Slopify 3.0.12

Released 30 September 2026.

3.0.12 lets image and thumbnail prompts look things up: how the subject and characters look, and which moment a thumbnail shows. It also fixes a finished video that could be refused after a long render.

## Highlights

- **`{{Appearance}}`: looks, looked up.** A figure is drawn the way people know it, and the same way in every picture.
- **Thumbnails take `{{Scene}}`.** Each thumbnail shows a striking moment from the article, a different one for each of three.
- **An edit during a render no longer fails the video.**

## Images and thumbnails

- Put `{{Appearance}}` in an image, thumbnail or establishing prompt, for example a line `Looks: {{Appearance}}`. Once the article is written, one call to the project's AI model searches the web for how the video's subject and every named character look, in their most iconic depiction. Each picture gets the looks of the figures its scene names; a thumbnail always gets the subject's. There is no switch: prompts without it are drawn as before. One more AI call per run.
- A thumbnail prompt with `{{Scene}}` gets a scene from Scenes from the article: the moment that would make someone click, taken from anywhere in the article, and a different one for each of three thumbnails. Before, `{{Scene}}` reached the image model as literal text.

## Fixes

- A video could render for hours and then stop with "Output fingerprint differs from its authorized recipe." when something in the project was changed while it rendered (a thumbnail made again, say). Its captions are now checked against the project as it is now. A video that failed this way renders again with **Try the video again**.
- Scroll bars are hidden everywhere; every area still scrolls.

## Upgrading from 3.0.11

- **Nothing becomes outdated.** Prompts without `{{Appearance}}` or a thumbnail `{{Scene}}` are drawn as before.