3D text using my paths scripts

Oregonian · **Posted:** Wed Oct 29, 2014 12:32 pm **(#101)**

Nice oldmangrumpy.

Molly, I love your pretty red M.

Here's my O

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

lol more long bubbles. Just like my freckles look like stove pipes.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

ofnuts wrote:

molly wrote:

ok, now after working at this since 5 AM here is what I got.
The top one filled and the bottom one is with stroked
50 layers each

My next script will be called no-sleep-for-molly.py

You do that, and along with it write the instructions for dummies, thats me I guess.
Anyway, I finally got something I am happy with. thanks

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Wallace wrote:

molly wrote:

ok, now after working at this since 5 AM here is what I got.
The top one filled and the bottom one is with stroked
50 layers each

[ Image ]

Nice looking butterflies Molly. :bigthup

Are you sure you didn't stroke the gradient on one of them? :hehe

Wallace · **Posted:** Wed Oct 29, 2014 4:10 pm **(#105)**

molly wrote:

Wallace wrote:

molly wrote:

ok, now after working at this since 5 AM here is what I got.
The top one filled and the bottom one is with stroked
50 layers each

[ Image ]

Nice looking butterflies Molly. :bigthup

Are you sure you didn't stroke the gradient on one of them? :hehe

Graechan · **Posted:** Wed Oct 29, 2014 5:33 pm **(#106)**

Molly don't feel to bad I just cant seem to be able to get how to use gradients in this

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

@Graechan
All I do is use this dialogue in the settings you see here. I didn't set any brushes but I set the gradient I wanted then I left the gradient tool active :blend

After that is done I go back to paths and merge all visible layers and they will turn red, then click off the eye and your gradient text should be there.

Graechan · **Posted:** Wed Oct 29, 2014 6:38 pm **(#108)**

where do i get this script

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12845

Just downloaded them again myself Graechan (remember; lost all my stuff when ol' Betsy died on me; lol).

http://gimp-path-tools.sourceforge.net/

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Here are the two plug-ins Graechan or anyone

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Wed Oct 29, 2014 7:15 pm **(#111)**

More butterflies looking for magic mushrooms.

Wallace · **Posted:** Wed Oct 29, 2014 10:03 pm **(#112)**

oldmangrumpy wrote:

More butterflies looking for magic mushrooms.

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Love the colors OMG. :bigthup

Marcello · **Joined:** Mar 10, 2014 **Posts:** 845

using Samj CountourPiePans and the 2paths scripts

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

Did some improvements to path-inbetweener. It will now generate intermediate paths along a curve (another path...):

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In the image above I'm also experimenting with partial transparency in stroke-visible-paths, which is not fit for human consumption right now. Availability of that feature will depend on the amount of rain next weekend

Wallace · **Posted:** Mon Nov 03, 2014 8:55 pm **(#115)**

ofnuts wrote:

Did some improvements to path-inbetweener. It will now generate intermediate paths along a curve (another path...):

Attachment:

InBetweenerGuide-3.png

In the image above I'm also experimenting with partial transparency in stroke-visible-paths, which is not fit for human consumption right now. Availability of that feature will depend on the amount of rain next weekend

That looks like it could have some great potential.

Carlos Diniz · **Joined:** Jan 20, 2013 **Posts:** 590

Molly, the butterflies are beautiful. It was worth the hours of work.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Thanks Carlos

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

Wallace wrote:

ofnuts wrote:

Did some improvements to path-inbetweener. It will now generate intermediate paths along a curve (another path...):

Attachment:

The attachment InBetweenerGuide-3.png is no longer available

In the image above I'm also experimenting with partial transparency in stroke-visible-paths, which is not fit for human consumption right now. Availability of that feature will depend on the amount of rain next weekend

That looks like it could have some great potential.

Updated stroke-visible-paths to v0.4. Improvements:

1) progress indicator
2) opacity support, with a) a general opacity slider, and b) support for opacity in the gradient (both are used together).

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Enjoy.

PS: This version dedicated to conference calls and people who organize them :hehe

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Nice... thanks ofnuts

Sasquatch · **Posted:** Sun Jul 17, 2016 5:38 pm **(#120)**

This thread and the accompanying scripts have greatly simplified one of my current projects. Thank you very much for that. I do, however, have a suggestion for a minor improvement to the in-betweener script. Could you tweak it so that the starting path is not also available as an option for the ending path? That way goofs like me who overlook the setting in the drop-down menu don't have to sit and wait for the script to produce 220 duplicates of a path before erasing them and doing it over. Outside of that, the in-betweener and stroke-visible scripts work beautifully. I can't wait to finish this project so I can share it.

On a related note, is there a script to rotate the starting point of a closed path? I screwed up and started one of my paired paths at the wrong point. The only option I had was to delete one of the paths and start again at the right spot. It would have been very handy to have been able to tell a script, "rotate the starting point one node counter-clockwise".