I am trying to use the "plug-in-map-object"
for a script but don't know what to set
view-point (x,y,z) values
to have the default values of when you open up the Map/Map Object
And also
first and second axis (x,y,z) values
now i just have them all as zeros and not sure if that's the default of Map/Map Object or not.

Thanks in advance.

The default values can be found in the map-object-main.c file.

When using plug-in-map-object, I find it best to treat it as four separate plug-ins: one for mapping to a plane, one for mapping to a box, one for mapping to sphere, and one for mapping to a cylinder. This will eliminate worrying about many of the nearly fifty arguments that need to be provided.

thanks guys.
got it to work
but i don't see an option for creating a new layer like in Map/Map object.

i guess i might have to manually create a copy of a layer then run plug-in on that.

If your original layer does not have an alpha channel and the "transparency" argument is TRUE, a new layer will be generated. This seems to me as somewhat anomalous behavior so it probably should not be relied upon.

Yes, Saulgoode, you are perfectly right, and it would be nice, for those trying to use it, if some gimp-chat-coder would take the challenge of either:
1-take the original c code and create four different c plug-ins, one for each mapping type
or:
2-create four front-end scripts, one for each mapping type, so the user can deal with a more reasonable number of parameters
who knows...