Esper, I can direct you to the lines you need to change to allow for the use of the active gradient in this script and in the enviromap script. It's an easy fix until you can update.
@Molly - Thanks!
Caz wrote:
Thanks for this. I had a quick look and for some reason the listing for the EnviroLogo under File/create/logos(gimpchat) appears twice. Not sure why this happens but I thought I'd mention it.
Well, I'm not sure why in the world you would see the same option on your menu twice. The Logo Toolbox script, this one and a few older scripts are the only ones that should show up under that menu. That's an odd problem you have there.
Mike wrote:
Nice ...
Looks good.
Rod wrote:
I thought it looked to jaggy so i ran the script on a new logo and i added a Gaussian blur at 1 to get rid of the jaggies. (turbulence added also). It lost a lot of the shininess that way though.
The big issue with this script (actually any script that uses the emap/bumpmap section of the lighting filter), is that a couple of key parameters can't be controlled via a script. The biggie is the bumpmap depth. There is no way to change this away from the default value with a script. I also can't control the distance parameter located under the options tab with a script. There are no hooks to those two critical parameters in Script-Fu (There are a couple of others like metallic & isolate toggle but they aren't that critical). SG once mentioned that the antialiasing toggle is completely ignored, as well.
This means that I'm somewhat limited as to what I can do programmatically. The interesting thing about the Lighting Effects filter is that any manual changes you make to the parameters, will stick for that current GIMP session. So, for example, you can set the distance slider once, then anytime the LE filter is called with a script, it uses the value you set manually.
I'm thinking that by having a toggle to allow you run the Lighting Effects filter interactively, might help solve some of these issues and allow for much better results from this script. You could actually run the LE filter interactively whenever you need to change something manually and run non-interactively the rest of the time. I plan to add the interactive option in the next release.
The File/Create input screen has so many options now, I'm running out of room. I might need to dump something or rearrange that screen to allow for another option or two. I have plenty of room on the alpha to logo screen, though.
Thanks for testing this out and letting me know the issues. There is certainly room for improvement with the script but I think most of these issues can be overcame, allowing for much better results.
I agree with you Tux. Having a interactive session each run of the script would probably make it produce better results. Perhaps they will fix the PDB next release? We can only hope.
But for now this filter is the bomb for creating nice logos. Well done.