Now "Zigzags" pattern available (this version 4 is a stand-alone script now).
You no longer need to update your Hatch Selection Layer script in order to run this script.
Available at http://gimpscripts.com/2015/06/auto-hatch-layers/


Now "Fans" pattern available (version 5)

Tran : great script thank you!
this is my test

what is that picture of?
I can't tell.

A squirrel.

squirell pp glomy filter in Zonerphoto

oh i see it now... for a while there i thought it was an image of a girl/person with white hair pointing at me.

does this script do only line hatch, with each color in a different direction and/or different line widths?

Nice again Tran; keep it up, though, and you might want to think about using some form of curl.exe to auto-update your script-fu. lol

As a side note, your Script-fu doesn't crash GIMP anymore for large images like this one; not sure how you actually fixed that issue, but happy I am.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/34520999@N05/18254455878/

Yes, but only if you choose "Lines", and specify an incremental angle other than 0 and the line widths will vary depending on your color.
Like this? is this something you're asking for?



You can choose between "Lines","Squares","Circles","Triangles","Zigzag" or "Fan" or "All". "All" will alternate between all the shapes. And you can specify an angle to rotate each hatch by. so that they come out in all different angles.

I think this helped prevent GIMP from crashing.

Now has "Rings" pattern (version 8).

Oh; am digging the rings Tran. Still, have to cut grass so will have to download and try later (just in case you decide to yet add another pattern too; lol).

Just in case? You predicted the future man!
Now with "Hollow Squares" pattern (version 9)

Soothsayer I am tran. lolol

What would be cool is, instead of the all option, you had a check box where you could select which object(s) to use. Might be too much work though.

version 10 is much more friendly in terms of letting user choose which patterns to have/use.
Each pattern will have a toggle.



This way for example, if you wanted to you can choose to have only circles and rings, you can.


Note: If no patterns are selected (hopefully this never happens, but if it does), the script will default to having only "Lines" as pattern.

hahaha nice i was just thinking the same thing and just did it as you replied...

Cool beans; now I'll be downloading the update. lol

I just realized something.

Now with an image of at least 8 colors (since there are 8 patterns).
There's at least 255 (256 - 1 because option where all toggles are not checked does not count) ways to hatch it.
oooh fun.

This should allow people more room with their creativity...which patterns ooohh..which patterns to choose turn on or off.

Extremely cool indeed Tran; very much appreciate this gem you gave us.

version 11 now has "Crosses" pattern.


So now that now you can select "Rings" and "Crosses" to have x'es and o's

I am open to adding more possible pattern suggestions (but you'll have to tell me how to use math to calculate the pattern/shape so that i can draw it based on a percentage of area of a square grid)