GIMP Version: 2.8.14
Operating System: Windows
GIMP Experience: New User

List any relevant plug-ins or scripts:
Animated Snowfall: http://gimpscripts.com/2011/12/animated-snowfall/

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I'm so frustrated.

How in the world do I install this plugin/script? The only thing I know is that the file ends in .scm.

Help please? It's appreciated.

Hi,
The extension 'scm' says to me that the file is what GIMP call a Script-Fu. The following text except for the ones in parentheses are from GIMP help.

Chapter 13.2.2 of GIMP help. "Installing Script-Fu

One of the great things about Script-Fu is that you can share your script with all your GIMP friends. There are many scripts that come with GIMP by default, but there are also vast quantities of scripts that are available for download all around the Internet.

1) If you have downloaded a script, copy or move it to your scripts directory. It can be found in the Preferences: Folders → Scripts." (Usually there is two folders there, one is what I call the user folder, with a dot before gimp-2.x , the other is the admin folder; so I recommend the user one.)

"2) Do a refresh by using Filters → Script-Fu → Refresh Scripts from the image menubar. The script will now appear in one of your menus. If you don't find it, look for it under the root file menu filters" (or from image menubar search with Help → Plug-in Browser ). "If it doesn't appear at all, something was wrong with the script (e.g. it contains syntax errors)."

(Note: Script-Fu don't have to be marked executable for Linux, OSX or Windows)

Hope you have success. Bye

@Na11

It comes as a zip archive. Did you unzip it?

The zip contains these files

AnimatedSnow.scm
readme.txt
SelectedAreas.jpg
SnowAnimation.gif
SnowRandomFinal.gif
SnowStraightFinal.gif

The readme.txt contains this, which is both bad advice and shows the scripts age (Gimp 2.6.x)
Copy and paste the AnimatedSnow.scm file to your GIMP scripts folder:
C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\share\gimp\2.0\scripts

The place for scripts, something.scm is your Gimp profile C:\Users\"yourname"\.gimp-2.8\scripts
and it appears in the Filters -> Animation menu

Does it work - yes

Remember the C:\Users\"yourname"\.gimp-2.8\ folder has many different sub folders for your added resources.
The folder "brushes" for example would be where any downloaded gimp brushes would be placed with the extensions gih, and gbr.
gih is an animated brush (gimp image hose)
where gbr ( gimp brush) is a regular brush.

All your installed and added resources should always be placed in these provided resource sub folders. For example...
scm extensions go in the sub folder " scripts"
pat , gif, jpg, bmp, png , jpeg extensions go in the sub folder "patterns" if you download them as such.
exe, py, dll extensions go in the sub folder "plug-ins" . ADDING plug-ins requires a GIMP restart.
And so on and so forth. If you download a gradient file for gimp (ggr) it goes in the sub folder "gradients".

If you download and place these added resources in the programs/GIMP 2/ directory sub folders you may loose them all when re installing GIMP updates.

Hope that added information helps a little. If you need more help before installing resources just ask.

Ahh thank you guys! It worked!