'Extrude from Path' Rel2.4 [OK for 2-10 & 2-8]

[Graechan]

Extrudes a 3d image from the active path with a choice of color or gradient for the extrusion and color for the moment for the end cap, there are also settings for a drop-shadow and the extrusion direction,now also has an optional Fadeout effect.
Note! FreeType is an excellent plugin for creating paths from text or dingbats and is available here FreeType







Menu location is Script-Fu/Paths

; Rel 0.02 - Fix to prohibit pre 2-8-14 Gimps attempting to set brush or brush-size

; Rel 0.2.1 - Added menu item Cap Type, added a brush-spacing adjustment

; Rel 0.2.2 - Added an optional Fadeout effect

; Rel 0.2.3 - Added the option to fill the cap layer with the top color from gradient

; Rel 0.2.4↓ - Bugfix 'typo in selecting color from gradient for Cap'

Extrude from Path.scm

(14.99 KiB) Downloaded 131 times

[Wallace]

Extrudes a 3d image from the active path with a choice of color or gradient for the extrusion and color for the moment for the end cap, there are also settings for a drop-shadow
[ Image ]
[ Image ]
Menu location is Script-Fu/Paths

Extrude from Path.scm

This looks fabulous!
Thanks Graechan!

[Graechan]

Thankx Wallace hope you enjoy it there is also a setting for the extrusion direction

the path for the image above was created with the Freetype plugin

[oldmangrumpy]

Graechan - that is terrific; just right to celebrate with re football!

[Graechan]

Conbagui maybe you can find a use for it in one of your fantastic tutorials
and that is sure one hell of a creation Oldmangrumpy

[SysTemX]

Graechan, very cool

[molly]

Thankx Wallace hope you enjoy it there is also a setting for the extrusion direction
[ Image ]
the path for the image above was created with the Freetype plugin

Very nice Graechan, thank you.

[Graechan]

Thanks Molly, try not to break it will you

[molly]

You are so mean

[sallyanne]

Just saw this, Cool
Graechan and Molly, you two at it again!

[molly]

That is what you call true love Sallyanne:

BTW... your results are very nice.

[sallyanne]

Thanks Molly. I only used default setting. Changed the font in both and colour of cap in the second

[molly]

Ok, thanks, so that font already has the design on it?

[sallyanne]

Ok, thanks, so that font already has the design on it?

Yes, it is Saphire Sativa
here are a couple brushes, oops better attach them

[sallyanne]

black and white clip art

[molly]

Thanks for the font sallyanne.

[Marcello]

Thank you for the excellent script and for the suggestion of FreeType.exe
my first test

[Rod]

Nicely done Graechan! Works excellent.



Font is .AR Darling comes with windows 7. I used FreeType at size 245 pixels.

Settings


This took about 2 minutes to render and the file size was over a gig.

Added Rodilius

[Graechan]

Rod your image should not take 2 mins to render and the size was only 82.2 KBs some thing is wrong

[Rod]

Rod your image should not take 2 mins to render and the size was only 82.2 KBs some thing is wrong

The image as stored in memory was over 1 gig until i saved it as xcf. It did take about 2 minutes to render though. (4 gigs RAM)