The script either overlays or combines a background layer to the rest of the layers. I would like to know if it's possible to make the script work only on visible layers.

Right now it works on all layers.

Sure that is possible !
But to know also how to...then i fear we will have to wait for Saulgoode , RobA , Fencepost or anyway some script fu guru

Works great. Thanks so much, saulgoode.

3 hours and 21 minutes to get a modified script, SG?

What poor service

Seriously, how is anyone else supposed to contribute here if you swoop in with the solution so quickly all the time!

-Rob A>

that Saulgoode is remarkable to say the least. Wish I had his talent and knowledge. All you script guys are great..

This is one example of what I was trying to accomplish using the script and being able to block the background layer from copying to all layers.

The sparkle layers are 5 layers that repeat. I didn't want to have the dancer dancing as fast as the sparkle layer; the dancer repeats itself for two layers. There are a total of 20 layers.


dancer #1
sparkle layer #1
dancer #1
sparkle layer #2
dancer #2
sparkle layer #3
dancer #2
sparkle layer #4
dancer #3
sparkle layer #5
etc.

Hope that makes sense.

that is a very kewl hip hop, "O"

Molly.

this would make a good tutorial!

Seconded.

Thirded.

Darn, I need to change a light bulb and there are no other Oregonians around.

Caught that, eh?
That's from that goofy fortunes program that displays messages in the terminal window. Made me LOL, and I thought of O.

The Oregonian that changes the light bulb must wear a rubber wet suit and stand on a stool with glass insulators on the legs for protection from electrical shock.

Oregonians have at least 100 different words to describe rain. Those two Oregonians are at the border and before they'll let a Californian enter Oregon the Californian is required to name at least 2 kinds of rain.

Oregonians: "Name two different kinds of rain."
Californians: "What's rain, man?"
Oregonians: "Border crossing denied. Go back to your own country, dude."

Are you sure you want a tutorial for that? It requires working with two different images and renaming 20 layers.

Sure! Why not? You could make that part interesting by adding riddles or clues for us to solve, lol. [wink].

I can honestly admit that I have searched for tutorial software to help speed the process up, there are none that are completely effective. I've learned the fastest way is to make documents and convert them to PDFs. Videos are the fastest, but of the many people I have exchanged emails with, have always said that videos should be accompanied with text/documents, because they move too fast. Wink works well for that, but it doesn't speed things up in creating the tutorial.

The tutorial will be puzzling enough. It will take awhile to write. I have to think my way through doing it and try to make it clear to the person trying to follow it.

I agree, I like text instructions. They are easier to follow. It's fun to watch a vid but you have to keep stopping and starting it.

I think the people who make good tutorial videos deserve gold stars though. They must write notes to themselves or outlines that they follow before recording. Even that text would be helpful.

Not to run off course with the original topic, but in regards to video tutorials: I tried to find someone who was a recorder, to transcribe videos to text files. I'm waiting for Dragon speech software to be perfected enough to allow transcription without training the software. Google has been working on this very project and has their software transcribing voicemails in Google Voice, with some degree of success.

In the case of your animation, I "think" the part most of us want to see is the implementation of this script with your project (speaking for myself, this is what I'd like to see). Maybe cover the parts that are most obvious to perform, with minimal instruction, and expand most on the script use. Greg did a good job of this with his Ornament tutorial.

Closed-captioning??

By the time you reach that level of complexity, the GAP would be a much better solution. Actually, the GAP is a good solution for the simple case that the script addresses, but the script is perhaps a little simpler to learn and is available on all platforms.

I seriously considered using GAP. There were 5 text layers and 10 dancer layers to begin with.

I had to double each dancer so that it would be dancer 1, dancer 1; dancer 2, dancer 2; etc. in that order.

The 5 text layers I imagine would have to be looped in order to have it 20 layers in the final image.

I didn't quite know how to pull all that off, so decided to do it manually.