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fence-post — GIMP Animated Rain Script
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Published: 2007-12-30 20:56:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 57556; Favourites: 339; Downloads: 21940
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Description
October 6, 2008: I've modified the script to run in GIMP 2.6 (the newest stable version). It should work in 2.4, as well.Let me know if you have any trouble with it.
This simple script is more of a gimic than anything, but it's still fun! It creates an rain-like animation from a single image, just like the one in the preview above. It is based on this tutorial: fence-post.deviantart.com/art/…
This script will not run in GIMP version 2.2. If you would like that script, follow this link: (fence-post.deviantart.com/art/… .
Although scripts of this nature are fun, I suggest taking a look at the tutorial as it's good to know how to accomplish the steps without the script.
Just click on the download link to open the script in your browser window and then save it (File Menu > Save) in your GIMP scripts folder (ie....C
rogram FilesGIMP-2.4sharegimp2.0scripts)Then, go to the main GIMP window (not the image window) and choose the Xtns Menu > Script-FU > Refresh Scripts and it should appear in the Image Window under the Filters Menu > Animation > Rain...
You set the number of frames the animation will have, how much rain, the blur of the rain, the angle at which it falls, and the speed of the animation. You can also add a border of the chosen color and size (up to 3 pixels wide).
Enjoy!
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Comments: 102
Showing an error message when I try to open the zip to extract.
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The script file is not working. I have unzipped it and nothing shows up under animation. I use Gimp 2.6.11
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Help PLease! TAT I cant upload my picture i made on gimp and im becoming very frustrated. It says I need a seperate preview page? Can someone please help, or point me in some direction for help?
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make a still version of the pisture or a corver that says preview. like usual animations
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you're welcome!! Used here [link]
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Hmm, when I download this, I can't seem to save it in GIMP? *confused*
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Thanks, a lot.
And for all you people who can't find it, it's in Filters - Animation.
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I donwloaded it but I'm not sure how to use it. I clicked it and everything but it just opens up a new canvas with three layers and i dont see anything..
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I scaned an Image useing gimp 2.6 AND I CANNOT FOR THE LIFE OF ME FIGURE OUT HOW TO SUBMIT IT TO DEVIANTART
I'm a new artist and i asked my sister-(long time deviant) how to get the image but she said deviantart just doesn't like gimp and it wasn't going to work. 
so now i'm sad and i don't have paint it (not sure why not) so i downloaded Gimp 2.6 but if i can't figure it out i'm now sure how i'll get my art on deviantart
If you could PLEASE tell me if there's anything special i need to do that would be Greatly apprciated , and if not that's ok too... 
Something about a separate preview image and we can't figure out how to change the size
sorr if i'm asking you this and you don't know the answer.
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hi im trying to upload an animation i did on gimp 2 but when i dont know which category to put it in. can you help?
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[link] got it to work
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i keep getting this error
Error while executing script-fu-rain-anim:
Error: Bad syntax of binding spec in let* : ((rain-layer) (num-frames (max 1 num-frames)) (remaining-frames num-frames) (newImage (car (gimp-image-duplicate img))) (source-layer (car (gimp-image-get-active-layer newImage))) (center-x (/ (car (gimp-image-width newImage)) 2)) (center-y (/ (car (gimp-image-height newImage)) 2)) (border-layer))
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This script isn't working for some odd reason. I've added it to the script folder and have refreshed scripts, I've even closed and reopened Gimp and still the plugin won't appear anywhere in the filter's list nor the script-fu. I've been using Gimp for quite some time so I'm certain it's not anything I've done or not done.
Any reason this would happen?
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May I please ask for assistince on how to use this in my gimp program? For some strange reason whenever I try and save it it, I can't run it because it cumes up as a SCD format or something like that. I tried the Refresh script thing, but it still didn't show up. I can't seem to use any zip format and it's really annoying. Please reply, this is really frustraiting.
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WOW!
I thought your tutorials were amazing and made life easy......
now a script for animated rain!?!?!?
Love it,
one thing tho -
rain seems to come out a little darker than when I do it step by step.
is that the layer blending method used?
would use this all the time if I could choose lighter or darker rain~
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Thanks for kind words and the feedback! I'll take another look at the script and see if I did something different from the tutorial. That was my first animation script and had NO IDEA what I was doing, so it's quite possible there's a difference. Now that I know what I'm doing I can modify it at will. So, I'll go ahead and clean up the code and add in the options to alter the blend modes/opacity. It'll be a little while because of limited free time, but not too long.
Cheers!
Art
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omg thanks for script! this makes it so much easier than doing it step by step!
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I've used the tutorial once. Very nice. But is this script usable in teh newer 2.6 versions? It's note where it's suposed to be
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Thanks so much for updating it! I will send you a link when I use it!
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Oh thanxs! It's a great script!
Thx you very much!!
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I don't understand!!!! ~throws keyboard across the room~ grrr! ~ goes bak and gets it~ lol....I tried to download and this page comes up with a bunch of html and no box pops up for me to save! I don't understand!! What am i doin wrong! I need rain!!! he he
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I thank you for making and modifying this wonderful little script. I just posted a work that I used this to help create. It is here [link]
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Thank you, again, for all of your GIMP resources. Your hard work is very appreciated.
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Hey Fencepost,
I've been trying to get lots of scripts onto gimp, but whenever they are text files like this one, I can't seem to get it to work. I followed your instructions, but it doesn't show up in GIMP even after I refresh the scripts and restart GIMP. Help plz?
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i dont know how 2 use it and download it! plz help!!! =[
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Download and basic use instructions are in the deviation description.
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