[Gimp-user] Create layered animation from a tiled animation.

[Brian Vanderburg II]

Out of need I created a script and finally got it working even on 2.3.18.

Normally an animation is either done as one layer for each frame or 
using GIMP Animation Package one file per frame.  With the first method, 
it is not possible to have multiple layers per frame since a layer is a 
frame.  With the second, multiple files must be kept.  While GAP is 
good, for simple animations it would be easier to just store each frame 
in one image side by side.

This script makes it where the animation is actually in a single file, 
each frame tiled horizontally across.  The script itself simply converts 
the tiled animation into layers.  For example, a 32x32 animation with 10 
frames would be created as a 320x32 image, and the frames would be at 
(0,0)-(31,31),(32,0)-(63,31),etc where the left most part is the first 
frame.  The animation can have layers.  It is possible to have a certain 
item appear on each frame simply by creating it in one area and tiling 
it across with the Map->Tile plugin.  When desired to export the 
animation, this script will simply copy the visible part of the image 
and cut it based on the frame size into layers automatically.

I don't know where to send this script or if it would be useful to 
anyone else, so it is included in this email as an attachment.
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