thats nice and smooth Graechan

Looks good to me Graechan

Sure does look very close Graechan.
Did you use channels with a edge blur and lighting effects? I also used a channel for the mosaic layer.

Very nice results Graechan. Shine.scm? Care to share it?
I created a couple scripts here are the results.
Both can be located at Script-Fu>Text Effects>





I need a tutorial on creating channels and adding them to lighting effects in scm.
How do you name several channels so you can grab them for use later? The let statement?
Or can i just define those 3 channels and call them later?


I need to create 3 channels from a selection.
original
blurred
scales
Then i need to use blurred and scales in lighting effects as bump maps.
Here is the pipe i want to use
select text on a layer
enlarge the layer to image size
fill the text layer with a special color
selection to a channel - original
copy original channel and re name blurred
blur this channel by 5 or less (depending on text size)
go back to layers dialog and run lighting effects and use the blurred channel for a bump map
create another channel from the original text selection name it scales, and run mosaic tiles on it.
invert that channels colors
reselect the colored text layer and run lighting effects using the scales layer as a bump map.
create a border around the text
Then create a drop shadow - these are the effects i would like the user to control
drop shadow offset and blur
scale color
scale size
scale shape
scale border color

That's the pipe in a nutshell.


I thought it would be a snap but ran into problems with the channels.
Any help would be appreciated...thanks!

Anyway i am zipping both scripts and adding them here if anyone is interested.

That is very cool Graechan. Thank you

I think you need to submit that shine.scm to the Registry. I did an alphabetical search yesterday and could not find it listed. Cool Script. Thanks Graechan!

Ok, For nostalgia

You can instantiate them them in the main let of your script and set them later:



But there is no checking that there is a selection, and it will save a blank channel if there is no selection. If a script required a selection I tend to do something like:



of course, this is ignoring all the other stuff with undo stacks, and pushing context, etc.

HTH.

-Rob A>

Graechan and Rob you have both helped me immensely.
Now i should be able to incorporate bump maps and environment maps into the scripts i write.
You guys are great!

This looks real cool with the shine.scm added Graechan.



Thanks to Graechan for adding the shine part of the script for me.

New script attached.



You need to have a active text layer for this script to work However...it will work on a shape or area on a transparent layer.The script simply selects everything and converts it.

Example

Thank you Rod...very nice. I received two errors when I ran the script and I didn't get any options like color etc. Was I supposed to get those?

Here is the error.

Thanks Molly.
I believe that error has to do with the python drop shadow effect i added in the script.
Perhaps i will take that out and add the script-fu-drop-shadow instead.

The error seems to be unknown run mode and the PDB doesn't have a parameter like RUN-NONINTERACTIVE or RUN-INTERACTIVE. It just asks for a integer.
So i figured 0 for INTERACTIVE and 1 for NON-INTERACTIVE.

When i used 0 it returned 1-65 as options. That i don't understand.I use 1 or 2 and it runs but throws that error.Must be something in the python layer fx script.

It runs but has problems with just empty selections and works the best with a black area on a transparent bg.That is how i created the shapes in the above image.

The script is written so that it selects an shape or text on a transparent bg.
Scale shape and size are already available as a choice.
Via the pop up dialog.
Size can be anywhere from 5-100 and 4 choices for scale shape.


As for colors i am working on making those selectable.I am still figuring that part out.
scale color (both colors)?
border color
and possibly shadow color for reflections.

The script uses neon so it needs a black color in there for better results.I could have the user dialog ask for just the scale color, and border color.

These are the only options I get. I also still get the two error windows. Also I don't get the gloss layer

I can't get this to work with or without a selection and I have text on a trasnparent BG. Is this script written strictly for 2.8 users? I get the same two errors but nothing happens.

Is Shine used in this script? I DL and installed it but when I looked in the Plug-in Browser for Shine, it said it was a temporary procedure. This is a very cool looking effect Rod and I really want to be able to use it.

The shine I have Drac is a script scm file. Also, I think the shine is supposed to be built into Rod's script, not sure. The first two I did had the shine, earlier on in this thread. Now It doesn't.

Yeah I DL it from Graechan's post above but I can't get it to work on its own. I thought maybe you had to have it installed for Rod's script to work but I can't get that one to work either.

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