Graechan and Rob you have both helped me immensely.
Now i should be able to incorporate bump maps and environment maps into the scripts i write.
You guys are great!

This looks real cool with the shine.scm added Graechan.



Thanks to Graechan for adding the shine part of the script for me.

New script attached.



You need to have a active text layer for this script to work However...it will work on a shape or area on a transparent layer.The script simply selects everything and converts it.

Example

Thank you Rod...very nice. I received two errors when I ran the script and I didn't get any options like color etc. Was I supposed to get those?

Here is the error.

Thanks Molly.
I believe that error has to do with the python drop shadow effect i added in the script.
Perhaps i will take that out and add the script-fu-drop-shadow instead.

The error seems to be unknown run mode and the PDB doesn't have a parameter like RUN-NONINTERACTIVE or RUN-INTERACTIVE. It just asks for a integer.
So i figured 0 for INTERACTIVE and 1 for NON-INTERACTIVE.

When i used 0 it returned 1-65 as options. That i don't understand.I use 1 or 2 and it runs but throws that error.Must be something in the python layer fx script.

It runs but has problems with just empty selections and works the best with a black area on a transparent bg.That is how i created the shapes in the above image.

The script is written so that it selects an shape or text on a transparent bg.
Scale shape and size are already available as a choice.
Via the pop up dialog.
Size can be anywhere from 5-100 and 4 choices for scale shape.


As for colors i am working on making those selectable.I am still figuring that part out.
scale color (both colors)?
border color
and possibly shadow color for reflections.

The script uses neon so it needs a black color in there for better results.I could have the user dialog ask for just the scale color, and border color.

These are the only options I get. I also still get the two error windows. Also I don't get the gloss layer

I can't get this to work with or without a selection and I have text on a trasnparent BG. Is this script written strictly for 2.8 users? I get the same two errors but nothing happens.

Is Shine used in this script? I DL and installed it but when I looked in the Plug-in Browser for Shine, it said it was a temporary procedure. This is a very cool looking effect Rod and I really want to be able to use it.

The shine I have Drac is a script scm file. Also, I think the shine is supposed to be built into Rod's script, not sure. The first two I did had the shine, earlier on in this thread. Now It doesn't.

Yeah I DL it from Graechan's post above but I can't get it to work on its own. I thought maybe you had to have it installed for Rod's script to work but I can't get that one to work either.

Last try

I love that look Graechan, very cool

nice, very nice!

I'm getting that same error


using
;;; Date : August 15th 2012
;;; Revision: v-02

I guess I'm out of luck as I'm not using GIMP 2.8

Yes i used PDB calls from 2.8 so you will get deprecation errors in Gimp-2.6 most likely.
It should work fine in Gimp-2.8 however.

When you use the script try using it with just a white bg layer and black text on a transparent layer.
Just those 2 layers.

Molly i believe the drop shadow above your layers is the gloss shadow layer.make it invisible and see.

About coloring -
If you select the original image layer you can use Colors>Colorize to change colors for the body of the text or shape, or whatever you created.
If you select the top drop shadow layer and use colorize you can change the border color.
Don't go to far to the left with lightness setting (colorize), or you will blow out the gloss and make it darker.

Examples





This was actually an text layer i had ran my crayon-text script on.This was comic sans at one time.

It would be my guess that there are a lot of folks that are still using 2.6.11 or 2.6.12. Any chance the Reptile breath or at least the Shine script can be adapted/written to work in 2.6?