Layer and Tool - Z translation scale offset scripts
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 4:27 pm
Fixed the links. I had bad links on the script downloads. They are working now.
Someone was asking about a script to automatically scale a layer to offset for z translation.
The idea is that when you use the 3D camera motion in Anime Studio, you can do "parallax" type scrolling of layers that replicates a multiplane camera setup. the drawback is that this z translation causes the layers to change size visually moving back and forth in the z axis. In order to compensate for this it would require a lot of annoying scaling and adjusting of these layers and making additional changes to z translation would also require more annoying changes.
My solution to make this simpler, are 2 scripts. One is a tool script and one is a layer script (I prefer the layer script). they both do sort of the same thing. You could use one or the other or even both together. The reason I prefer the layer script is that it doesn't require using a different tool and it works more effectively. The modified layer translation tool works the same way and is also a good solution.
Layer Script
Download: hm_zindex-offset.zip
Tool Script
Download: hm_magic_zscale.zip
-vern
Someone was asking about a script to automatically scale a layer to offset for z translation.
The idea is that when you use the 3D camera motion in Anime Studio, you can do "parallax" type scrolling of layers that replicates a multiplane camera setup. the drawback is that this z translation causes the layers to change size visually moving back and forth in the z axis. In order to compensate for this it would require a lot of annoying scaling and adjusting of these layers and making additional changes to z translation would also require more annoying changes.
My solution to make this simpler, are 2 scripts. One is a tool script and one is a layer script (I prefer the layer script). they both do sort of the same thing. You could use one or the other or even both together. The reason I prefer the layer script is that it doesn't require using a different tool and it works more effectively. The modified layer translation tool works the same way and is also a good solution.
Layer Script
Download: hm_zindex-offset.zip
Tool Script
Download: hm_magic_zscale.zip
-vern