Does anyone have Windows 8 on their computer and if so does Animstacks work for your gimp? Because for me and my best friend it does not we both wanted to be able to put textures and xcf's on our gifs and we both have gimp 2.8.2 on windows 8 and every time we try to download the animstacks plugin from gimp registry we get something that looks like this registry(.)gimp(.)org/files/animstack(.)scm s there anyway someone could please help us it would be greatly appreciated

.SCM is a script (plugin written in Scheme scripting language). You should install it in 'scripts' folder in your GIMP user folder. Before processing gif files, bear in mind that Animstack doesn't work with indexed images, only rgb and greyscale color space. Try to unoptimize your gifs in GIMP and convert to rgb before using Animstack. Script works on most OS, its only dependency is GIMP.

Thank You for replying and I know how to use it because I believe someone made a tutorial on youtube about it but I am not able to install it at all when I go on gimp registry and press download animstack.scm I get something that looks like this.....

;;; GIMP Animation Tools
;;; by Timofei Shatrov
;;; v. 0.5

(define (display-to-string value)
"Debug only. Prints anything to string using display function"
(let ((port (open-output-string)))
(display value port)
;; Fun fact: get-output-string is not mentioned once in tinyscheme docs...
(get-output-string port)))

(define (gimp-message* . args)
(let ((port (open-output-string)))
(for-each
(lambda (arg)
(display arg port)
(display " " port))
args)
(gimp-message (get-output-string port))))

(define (vector-for-each fn vec)
"Run fn on each element of vec"
(do ((len (vector-length vec))
(i 0 (+ i 1)))
((= i len))
(fn (vector-ref vec i))))

(define (vector-for-each-i fn vec)
"Run fn on each element of vec"
(do ((len (vector-length vec))
(i 0 (+ i 1)))
((= i len))
(fn (vector-ref vec i) i)))

(define (is-true? fn item)
;; does fn return '(TRUE) ?
(= (car (fn item)) TRUE))

(define (flatten-layer-group img layer)
"Flatten a single layer group"
;; ok... there is no function for that... gotta do it the hard way...
(let ((layers (cadr (gimp-image-get-layers img))))
(vector-for-each
(lambda (lr) (gimp-item-set-visible lr (if (= lr layer) TRUE FALSE)))
layers)
;; do we need to make every sublayer of layer visible at this point?
(gimp-image-merge-visibl

Those are the lines from that script, bro.

How exactly are trying to get Animstack to work? Do you double-click on it after downloading?
(If you went that far as seeing the lines of the script, you probably did open it with one of the Windows text editors).
Don't click on it. It's not an executable Windows file. All you have to do is:

On Plugin Registry website click on Animstack.scm
Copy downloaded file to the GIMP 'scripts' folder
Start GIMP and find it in Filters>Animation>Process Animstack.

That someone is Timofei, the Animstack author, aka Grue on Gimp Chat.
If you have any further questions, you can PM him here, or ask a question on Plugin Registry.

You must save this file to your computer. If clicking on that link just displays the contents of the file, try doing something like Right click - Save link as... The end result should be a file "animstack.scm" on your computer. Then put it into one of GIMP's scripts directories as described here: http://docs.gimp.org/en/install-script-fu.html