Experimental image for a website I moderate.

kewl..........

very psychedelic looking! Wish it would work for me. I just might have to upgrade my gimp one of these days!

lol
very nice Photomaster!

Saulgoode is there a way to write a script for us Python users?
Would that make it faster on rendering?

As near as I can tell, there are two things preventing the script from running on GIMP 2.4. First, there is no PDB function to copy a path. This is easily rectified if you add the following block of code to the beginning of the script:


The other problem is that the 2.4 PDB does not provide a function to convert a text layer to a path, and it would not be trivial for me to write such a function (I'm not even sure it can be done in Script-fu). However, if you make the above change to the script, you should be able to use the script as long as you manually convert your text layer to a path, activate your envelope path, and then run the script using the "alternate path" option (and setting the alternate path to the saved text path).

I usually leave Python out of my GIMP as I consider it an unfortunate waste of memory.


No, I highly suspect it would not. The script spends about 95% of its time finding the distance along two paths (the horizontal and vertical axes) and retrieving/setting path control points using internal GIMP functions. Any Python script (following the same approach) would use those same GIMP functions and not experience any significant speed improvement.

One potential means of improving speed would to cache the horizontal curves as they are generated and search the cache before calculating a new curve. In this way, the horizontal curve for any given Y location in the text would only have to be calculated once. The question is whether a search for and retrieval of data in the cache (performed in an interpreted language) would be any faster than recalculating the horizontal curve (which is performed by GIMP in compiled C). I suspect it would not; though if someone were to convert the program to a compiled plug-in then high-speed cache lookups would probably be worthwhile.

Thanks for that quick answer saulgoode. =)
As usual it was very informative.

Thanks for the possible solution, SG. I will give this a try on my next day off!

nice script Saulgoode ( and nice results too O)

2-ton,

I have made a version of the script for GIMP 2.4. It differs from the original 2.6 script in that the active path is your text path and you must choose the envelope shape path from within the dialog (for the original script, the active path was employed as the shape path and you had to choose an alternate "text" path if you weren't using a text layer). This is so the default setting accommodates the common case that you will have performed the requisite "Text to Path" command just before running the script.

http://flashingtwelve.brickfilms.com/GIMP/Scripts/Temp/warppath-2-4.scm

Thanks! I hope to have a chance to work on this early next week.

I have submitted this script to the GIMP Plug-in Registry. I have also updated the script so that it is about 10-15% faster (otherwise no changes).

Thanks for all the help in working out the kinks.

Cool. I downloaded the newest version - really like having your initials in the filename. Thanks for the nice plug for Gimp Chat in the Registry.

me too! =)
love this script.

i got the following error



i think i deleted a few brushes...can anybody upload those for me (Circle (#)) ?!

I think the GIMP developers may have removed that brush in 2.8. The file, "Circle-1.vbr", can be downloaded from GIMP's online repository, but that is just a temporary solution until I get around to updating the script.

thanks for the quick help, saulgoode !

how do i download the brush from that website ??
when i try so save it, i get a html file

Those circle brushes are irrelevant in v 2.8. You size the big circle brush to the size you want.

I know, I tried it because at first I was thinking they should be there. Copied them from my old v2.6 program files brushes folder. They just took up space in my brushes folder.

I've attached all the old circle brushes but they are really a waste of time and space in v2.8

Thanks for this script, just need to play with it some more but the results are good.

erm 2.8.2

so its no use installing them ?

i cant use the script until saulgoode fixes it ?