I would love to use pack sprites in G'mic...but it keeps crashing.I followed the video tutorial on Youtube.Would anyone like to test it?

Been a while; tried packed spites with base layer mask and it never finishes after a long time (use to be quite fast as I recall). Might be a bug. Will post at PixLS's site to see if it may have degraded. I'll post a link to that thread once I do.

OK; posted a thread at PixLS's G'MIC forum. Below's that link.

https://discuss.pixls.us/t/has-packed-s ... aded/38156

Thank you for passing on the question... we're waiting!

David fixed the issue (see PixLS link per previous post for details; Gotta thank David); just refresh your presets, Jappaloe63. If that doesn't work, make sure you have the latest version of G'MIC.

Pack sprites with shells... and a little shimmer on top!

Saw your shells result while at work, earlier. Looks great.

Lylejk ,vitforlinux thanks!
One more then... , no masking

Sorry, I don't get any result as I must have some concept wrong. Can someone help me?

I pretty much stick to these settings

It is very picky for parameters, try

Increase Number of Scales to about 10 or 12
Reduce Minimal scale (%) to about 10
Spacing is important, reduce to (minus) -3 or -4
Masking use mask as bottom layer
Input all layers
Output New Image

example: https://i.imgur.com/CDNCmnd.mp4

Thanks a lot vitforlinux, rich2005 and Jappaloe63.
Everything is great help and I will practice it today.

I use a true b/w mask (no gray levels; black being what you want filled) Issabella.

Yes!!!!! I got it with your help!!!!! Thank you all of you.