Thank You MareroQ You were very helpful

Thanks a lot script coder for such an amazing script

Thanks MareroQ for the help.

HI. I've been trying to come up with a script similar to this idea. Excellent script, by the way.
I have one alteration I'd like to make, but I'm not sure where to find the line of code.
Basically, I want to change the viewing angle of the animation so It's more of a "top down" viewpoint.
Would it be possible to achieve this easily by altering a couple lines of the script's code?
Also, I'm not very experienced with script writing. Still a novice.

Thanks in advance if anyone can help me with this.

Is there any way I could utilize the map-object filter in a script to produce a rotating cube kind of like the one displayed in this post?
Basically, it's for my latest YouTube cubing channel. I want to create rotating cubes that have specific colour arrangements on each side of the box.
I like the map object function because you can map each side of the cube with every cubie being whatever colour you want by simply using the bucket fill tool.
This is very handy for what I want to do.
I want to be able to select the colour of each side, then just map object to a box with no light, a topdown view, and change only the rotate y axis parameter from -180 to +180 and render each image to a new layer with transparency.
The end resulting image sequence is used as an overlay with transparency in videos that I edit with Blender.
This result looks quite nice, but the process of rendering each map-object box takes FOREVER for a 60fps animation. It takes a really long time, so it'd be really nice to script the process rather than spend so much time going through the menus just for a 6 second animation.

There is also a rubiks cube type in GMIC if you do not want to wait. You can have the orientation and light any way you want.
It is under rendering > 3D image object. You have a few options there. rubik is at the bottom


I haven't tried myself yet but you may be able to change the orientation of the script rubik by just using the rotate tool.

I've played around with that function of gmic but it doesn't have the same amount of customisation as map object box. I may need to use a different program if I can't figure this out. I just need to increase my workflow rate. As it stands I can produce 1 frame every 2 minutes, and that is very time intensive.

I just found this post tonight and I love this script!! I took the image I made for the Animated Cube Avatar tutorial and ran this script for each of the 36 layers of my image. I had the script create 36 layers each time. I took layer 1 from the result on layer 1 of my image, 2 from layer 2, etc. until I had all 36 layers. Added shadows and a background and I have an animation within an animation.

That is very clever and I like it a lot, PhotoMaster.

Thanks Graechan, but this feature doesn't exactly suffice for my requirements. I need full customisation of each individual side of the cube, and each individual piece, by altering each layer corresponding to each side of the cube. I spent last night learning how to create the desired effect in Blender, with great results. Thanks for your help though. It's much appreciated.

So here is what I was trying to achieve. I'm very impressed with Blender's capabilities. It's very handy to let the computer render every frame for you. Of course, full credit goes to GIMP for allowing me to create this gif. Hope you find it interesting. Thanks guys.

Do you think you could do that on each square, or is that too much of a challenge? I know I couldn't do it. Be great to see if anyone can

Certainly! Started on it already.

Holy cow, that's impressive.

Here is an animation within an animation within an animation. In doing this I discovered that there is a mathematical error in the coding of the Map Objects filter when doing cubes. If you notice the blue Rubik's cube is spinning to the right on three sides and to the left on one. The Rubik's Cube Rel 2 Script uses G'Mic so it shouldn't suffer the same problem.

Here is the triple animation using Rubik's Cube Rel 2 Script and the result was exactly what I had wanted!
Thanks again for an AWESOME script!!

cool Thanks for taking up the challenge

My pleasure! I am having a blast with this!

Incredible work my friend.

I used G'Mic to animate a cup (G'Mic>Rendering>3d Image Object).
Then I used Rubiks Cube Rel 2 to animate the cube.