Hello,
in this tutorial I make a map with animated path using Animated Path Stroking Script and Gap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AzI9ny9YZ4

You need to post a few more times in order to post links. =)

This post is made because of I can't submit an URL of the video because I am new on this forum. It sais "too spamy... Remove URL...".

I did not mean spam this post. lol

Rod This is the only direct way and it works...

Always dangerous to make statements like that when things are quiet around here

An alternative way, albeit a bit more hands on.

https://youtu.be/Uq12JHvVJvE 4 mins 30 secs just a demo, not a tutorial.

Uses two of ofnuts plugins
path-inbetweener-0.2.py and stroke-visible-paths-0.6.py from:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-pa ... es/scripts

since you need GAP which runs on windows, shouldn't you have a
(windows users only) in the title

Actually, it runs on Linux and probably Macs as well. The problem is GAP is no longer being updated and was build for Gimp 2.6.
It's getting harder to compile on newer Linux/Gimp versions.

I actually worry about some of the genius developers. What happens to them?

Depends on the linux distro you use but usually GAP is available as a package.



However, it suffers from the same problem as the Windows version, it is ancient and various parts do not work as-expected / at-all.

If you need a video file of the animation, a couple of ways.

using ImageMagick



or using ffmpeg and the layers exported as separate files (there are scripts to do this)



where r is the framerate

Thanks guys! It's nice to see different approaches
Animated path stroking has some neat features for fancy stuff.
But I prefer the way rich2005 did this, because I don't use GAP for video conversion and python is much faster.
Also if you have long path animated path stroking will throw a warning:

Your path appears to be too long and could cause GIMP to crash. Reduce the length of your path
(i.e. split into smaller segments) to allow the script to work properly.

There's also python plugin called "follow-path 4" by Garcia, same guy who has created Path shape creator.
It works bit differently, uses a selection from clipboard.
What I like about it is that you get a draft preview and it has also some on-the-fly editing features.

There is newer version of GAP, 2.7 in the link below I wonder what's the difference with GAP 2.6?
Not a huge GAP fan, tried the barber pole tutorial several times but it does not seem to work out.
Either it's buggy or I have bird brain.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-packagers/files/

Nidhogg said

I read that GAP versions are linked to Gimp versions. There is a 2.8 gimp-gap on github but no packages/installers as far as I know.
https://github.com/GNOME/gimp-gap

No, you don't have a bird brain. The reason the 'barber pole tutorial' doesn't work for most people is because GAP map to object fails.
The tutorial also uses Gimp map to object which itself has a mathematical bug.

I think the rest of gimp-gap works and an Ubuntu 2.7 version is here:
https://answers.launchpad.net/~groetschel/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+sourcepub/1136647/+listing-archive-extra