Anime Studio / Nautilus.

I wrote a small script that gives you info about a selected AS file which I find quite useful at times.

To install just place the script in your Nautilus scripts folder and make it executable (chmod +x AS_file-info).
To use it right-click on the file and select scripts>AS_file-info.

Download A.S. File Info ver.0.0.5.

Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 licenced.

update: now works with Anime Studio 6.

Anime Studio Script
Download Edit in Gimp script v.0.9

Select an image layer and run this script, the image is then opened in Gimp for editing. After you’re done the image gets updated to the edited version.

Installation: Place the script in your /scripts/menu/Image -foder.

With Linux it should work out of the box.

With Windows you may have to change the path to your Gimp-installation in the script if Gimp doesn’t start when you run the script. Just open it up with a text-editor and change the path where I’ve noted.

Anime Studio Pro script
Download Loop Switch script ver.1.2.

Installation: Just put it in your scripts/menu/other folder.

Usage: Select a Switch layer and run the script.
The switches in the layer will then be layed out in the timeline following their layer order.
The parameters you can set is start and end frame in the range, interval between the keyframes,
and you can also select to lay out the keyframes in reverse, starting with the last switch, going downards in the list.
If the switches reaches the last one before the range has reached it’s end they will start over from the beginning.
Updated, you can now also set to use every # image in the sequence. Setting it to 3 for instance would use images 1,4,7,10 etc.

Anime Studio Pro Script.
Download Set & Get Frame Bookmark script, ver.0.1.

First press the key for setting the current frame as bookmarked and then on any other frame press the key for getting the bookmark to be transfered to that first frame.

Installation: Download and unzip in your >scripts>tool folder.

Then open _tool_list.txt located in the tool folder.
I suggest installing this script either into the “Other” section of the tool-palette or adding a new group called Navigation. To do this either add the following line to the end of the file _tool_list.txt;

button DR_set_framebookmark J
button DR_get_framebookmark K

or add the following lines;

group Navigation
color 204 220 232 255
button DR_set_framebookmark J
button DR_get_framebookmark K

(J and ”’k is the hotkeys, you can set this to whatever key you want, J, K, O and Y is by default not mapped to any tool).
Save _tool_list.txt and refresh Moho (ctrl+F5).

Note; Currently the framenumber in the little square at top left of the Timeline panel doesn’t update when you transfer to the bookmarked frame but as soon as you step or scrub the timeline it’s back to normal.
My plan for these tools is to merge them into one and make it possible to have multiple bookmarks stored.

Anime Studio script.
Download Two Way Ticket to Frame 0 ver.0.3

Have you ever found yourself in the position that you needs to go back to frame 0 to fix something and when you have you completely forgot where you were?

Well, fear no more, install this script and whenever you needs to fix something press your selected button and you are moved to frame 0. When you are done you just press the same button again and are automatically moved to the frame you started at.

Installation: Download and unzip in your >scripts>tool folder.

Then open _tool_list.txt located in the tool folder.

I suggest installing this script either into the “Other” section of the tool-palette or adding a new group called Navigation. To do this either add the following line to the end of the file _tool_list.txt;

button DR_two_way_ticket_frame0 Y

or add the following lines;

group Navigation

color 204 220 232 255

button DR_two_way_ticket_frame0 Y

(Y is the hotkey, you can set this to whatever key you want, J, K, O and Y is by default not mapped to any tool).

Save _tool_list.txt and refresh Moho (ctrl+F5).

Note; Currently the framenumber in the little square at top left of the Timeline panel doesn’t update when you transfer to frame 0 but as soon as you go back or scrub the timeline it’s back to normal.

Anime Studio Pro script.
Download Select Active Child script, ver.1.0.

This button only works with switch-layers.
What it does is that it changes selected layer to the active child of the current selected switch-layer.

Installation: Download and unzip in your >scripts>tool folder.

Then open _tool_list.txt located in the tool folder.

I suggest installing this script into the “Layer” section of the tool-palette. To do this add the following line under that section in the _tool_list.txt;

button DR_set_parentswitch O

(O is the hotkey, you can set this to whatever key you want, J, K, O and Y is by default not mapped to any tool).
Save _tool_list.txt and refresh Moho (ctrl+F5).
(If you don’t want this tool in the layers section just add the line to the end of the file _tool_list.txt and it will be displayed in the bottom of the “Other” section.)

Anime Studio Pro script-
Download the Set Parent Switch Value to Current Layer ver.1.1

By pressing this button or it’s hotkey you set a switch-keyframe corresponding to the current layer in the current layers parent switch layer.
It’s a bit faster than browsing the switches and when you’ve found what you’re looking for, remembering the name of that layer, go to the parent and select that layer name from the drop-down list. Now just press the button and you automatically has the switch keyframe set to the layer you want.

Installation: Download and unzip in your >scripts>tool folder.

Then open _tool_list.txt located in the tool folder.

I suggest installing this script into the “Layer” section of the tool-palette. To do this add the following line under that section in the _tool_list.txt;

button DR_set_parentswitch K

(K is the hotkey, you can set this to whatever key you want, J, K, O and Y is by default not mapped to any tool).
Save _tool_list.txt and refresh Moho (ctrl+F5).
(If you don’t want this tool in the layers section just add the line to the end of the file _tool_list.txt and it will be displayed in the bottom of the “Other” section.)

Peugout har vårrea!

Jag har animerat de flesta blåa gubbarna i den här reklamfilmen.
Verktyget var Anime Studio Pro.

Regi/design; Stig Bergqvist
Produktionsbolag; Filmtecknarna
Teknik; Digital 2D, Anime Studio Pro
Längd; 15 sekunder
© FilmTecknarna, 2008.

En reklamfilm för fackförbundet Kommunal.

Mias hemtjänstområde har utökats vilket hon inte finner sig i.

Jag har animerat Robert Nybergs bilder.

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Teknik; Digital cut-out i Anime Studio Pro.
Längd; 30 sekunder.
Bilder; Robert Nyberg
Animation; David Rylander
Producent; Annika Ernst.
©Eureka Film, 2007

Anime Studio Script
Download Select Parent Layer script ver.1.0

This tool works as a button in the toolbox, when you click it (or even better assign a hotkey for it) the selected layer in the Layers box changes to the parent of the layer. Very useful if you work a lot with nested skeletons and switch layers.

Installation: Download and unzip in your >scripts>tool folder.

Then open _tool_list.txt located in the tool folder.
If there are no “Other” group at the bottom of the list add one by inserting the lines;
group Other
color 204 220 232 255
Under those lines add;
button DR_select_parent_layer J
(J is the hotkey, you can set this to whatever key you want, J, K, O and Y is by default not mapped to any tool).
Save _tool_list.txt and refresh Moho (ctrl+F5).