Animstack 0.64 released

Recently I’ve been made aware of the fact that [matte] tag is no longer working with the new versions of GIMP. Since it’s a pretty useful tag, I decided to fix it ASAP. So here’s a new release containing the fix!

Download it here!

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Anonymous asked:

I am finishing watch tutorial your video AnimStack0.3 . Cannot follow matte ,Action tags , not working in GIMP 2.10. Please check 2.10 ok? for matte?. Thank you

I just tested it and you’re correct, at some point the behavior of threshold function has changed and the matte tag stopped working. I think it had to be after 2.10.0 was released though. I created a ticket on GIMP bug tracker and will try to create a workaround for this.

Did you know GIMP can read and export animated WEBP files? You can edit them just like GIF files, except there’s no 256 color limit! And obviously all Animstack functionality still works with them.
Unfortunately, despite some(?) .gif files being...

Did you know GIMP can read and export animated WEBP files? You can edit them just like GIF files, except there’s no 256 color limit! And obviously all Animstack functionality still works with them.

Unfortunately, despite some(?) .gif files being downloaded as .webp from Tumblr, it doesn’t seem to support uploading .webp files. Still, this functionality might be useful for other purposes.

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Anonymous asked:

Hey, so the script has a problem where the [fg] and the [bg] tags don't work with other tags (in this case, the [scale] tag). I know that other people have asked about this, but I haven't seen solutions; the one workaround I found is manually deleting all tags from layer names after the Process Animstack has run, but that's pretty tedious. Do you have a solution/workaround/hack/patch for this? I'm willing to Paypal actual money for this. This is a good script overall, but this is frustrating.

Can you describe your problem in more detail? scale tag is an effect tag, it should work with any action tags. An effect tag should be prefixed by either ‘-’, ‘+’ or ‘!’ otherwise it wouldn’t work.

Moreover “manually deleting all tags from layer names after the Process Animstack has run” should not be necessary, because the tags are deleted by Animstack during processing. So clearly something is not working right there.

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Anonymous asked:

OMG, an update! Thank my lucky stars! Any way this will ever work for Linux GIMP? Thanks for everything.

Does it not work on Linux GIMP? I never actually tested it there but I assumed the code should be portable.

Animstack 0.63 released

Yep, this is actually a new release, 3 years after 0.62 was released.

Basically Motion Blur API slightly changed in GIMP 2.10 and now it no longer accepts angles outside of [0, 360] interval. Which in turn made Animstack’s motion sampler not work in many cases. If you don’t use motion sampler, there’s no need to update.

Download Animstack 0.63 here.

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Anonymous asked: Can I use AnimStack to make my old gif (approx. 70 frames/layers) transparent? The strange thing is that Frame 1 is called background but the layer has a black background and some clouds. The clouds are okay, only I want the background to be transparent instead of black. Please help me.

Yeah, you can. Remove the black background (I’m not sure if it’s only present on the first frame or not), and make every frame (replace) and optionally apply matte. With animstack add an empty layer to the bottom with the tags “[matte:threshold][;replace]” where threshold is a number from 1 to 255.

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Anonymous asked: Using the following Tags [fg] [-erase::] to display a line of text character by character doesn't work for me . Where have I gone wrong?

Is the layer a text layer? Send a screenshot of the layer panel otherwise I can’t tell what’s wrong.

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Anonymous asked: Animstack is messing with my gimp software. Is there a way to uninstall the script-fu item? I cannot find it once the scm was installed. Please provide me with some direction.

To uninstall Animstack, simply remove animstack.scm from the folder you put it in. The possible folder candidates are listed in Edit-Preferences-Folders-Scripts.

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Anonymous asked: Hello, can you help me how the erase tag works? I cant get it going for some reason.

Well, the simplest use is if you have a Text layer you can put [-erase] tag on it to erase one letter at every step.

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There are some limitations. The layer must be a text layer without any formatting for specific parts of the text (through pop-up window).