Move points on selected layers script?

GCharb · Post by **GCharb** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 5:32 am

Hello all.

I was wondering if anyone knew of a script that allows to move all the points at the same time on all the selected layers for point animation?

Diana Kennedy · Post by **Diana Kennedy** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 6:14 am

You mean individually? Outside the fact you can move the shape as a whole when all points are selected?
That would be good, yes. And as I stated in another thread, it would be also a cool script such as to prevent all points getting selected when you miss a point and click on the shape-line

GCharb · Post by **GCharb** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 1:45 pm

Hello Diana, and thanks for your reply!

What I meant is this.

Say I have a head made of several layers. I select all the layers of the head, activate the script, then all point get activated and then I can move all the points of all the layers at the same time with the magnet tool.

As for selecting all points, isn't the shape select option in the translate point tool just to prevent that?

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 1:52 pm

I agree with this. It would be just awesome to edit several layer's points at the same time.

Rudiger · Post by **Rudiger** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 10:17 am

Stop coming with such excellent ideas for scripts! I have to get some sleep at some point

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SvenFoster · Post by **SvenFoster** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 10:19 am

Guys some great scripts floating around from the members on the forum so kudos.

I cant help but thinking AS should support these things already.. but hey atleast they can be added right

GCharb · Post by **GCharb** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 2:35 pm

Rudiger wrote:Stop coming with such excellent ideas for scripts! I have to get some sleep at some point !

Gilles gets his whip out of a box and gives Rudiger a maniacal look!

Heheh, still, that would be very useful as a script. I really need to get into Lua!

Svenfoster, not everything is possible in scripting, but they opened the box a little more in v8, so maybe even more, and better scripts will see the light of day!

benecosse · Post by **benecosse** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 2:50 pm

if this could be done with a script it would be so good.

GCharb · Post by **GCharb** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 4:26 pm

benecosse wrote:
GCharb wrote: Say I have a head made of several layers. I select all the layers of the head, activate the script, then all point get activated and then I can move all the points of all the layers at the same time with the magnet tool.
Yes, if this could be done with a script it would be so good. I try to keep everything on the one layer to avoid having to click through multi layers but it has it's drawbacks when trying I to create complicated actions.
I'd definately use a script like this a lot!

So would I.

I'd like to keep everything on one layer, but then I would have to give up layer animation, one of ASP strong tool.

Having such a script at our disposal would mean a middle between the two techniques, which would be a tremendous asset.

digitalartguru · Post by **digitalartguru** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 7:17 am

I agree.

AmigaMan · Post by **AmigaMan** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 1:41 pm

Me too

That would be incredibly useful as you say.

madrobot · Post by **madrobot** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 2:20 am

SvenFoster wrote:Guys some great scripts floating around from the members on the forum so kudos.

I cant help but thinking AS should support these things already.. but hey atleast they can be added right

That's the interesting tradeoff with AS. Limitations in the app itself can be sometimes overcome by the ingenuity of the user community, due to the scripting access in the app - which as they say has apparently opened even more with the current release. Taking into account also the more proactive interaction with users on the part of SM staff recently, things are looking quite promising IMHO.

Adrian

SvenFoster · Post by **SvenFoster** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 10:35 am

definately @madrobot I'm a seasoned programmer (read: old and tired...so very tired)
I would always release a software product with a plugin infrastructure and scripting interface for the very reasons you've stated... of course I'd also fix bugs

I jest, not down on it, think AS is awesome and with the new vigour the dev team are taking its bound to get better.

.oO( I'm so.... resisting reading through some lua docs...)