I thought there was a script that would
1) take all the layers of an XCF
2) duplicate them
3) stack them in reverse order and paste them back into the original xcf

Causing a ping-pong or reverse animation effect.

Example


So far i can not find one that does this. My request is for a SCM or PYTHON script that will do this.

It seems the most obvious animation script to produce but I've never come across one.

If I remember correctly there was discussion, about a reverse order script like this, recently. Not sure about the duplicate part though. I'm on a mission now to find it.

ed., Have you looked at the extra options in the "Clone-Layer Tool".
http://registry.gimp.org/node/25422

There is a reverse layer script but it doesn't ping pong the animation.

I know it seems like it would be easy to implement but i have found nothing so far.
With the GIF i posted i had to
Name the XCF
Save it
Open it as a new image.
Reverse the layer order
Save it
Re open as layers into the first XCF file.

That could be scripted i think.

mirror-layers here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-to ... s/scripts/

Adds entry at bottom of "Image" menu. Duplicate all layers in reverse order on top of the existing ones.
It will not duplicate the top layer (come to think of it, it should also avoid duplicating the last, I think, tell me if that would be better).

Thank you ofnuts.
I have a mirror-0.0.py and now this mirror-layers-0-0.py. These are different plug-ins aren't they?

Thanks Ofnuts!

It works excellent. Great idea to not copy the top layer.
It seems to work cleaner without the last one also so if you want to have it do that it will be okay.



I can't believe this isn't actually a menu item in default stack menus.

Thanks again!

Must be, since I don't remember writing mirror-0.0.py and I just wrote mirror-layers-0-0.py...

Molly what does Mirror do? Reflection of another layer perhaps?