Standard Version Scripting?

technoweasel · Post by **technoweasel** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:58 pm

I'm new to Anime Studio, so sorry if I'm wrong.

I noticed that in the Studio directory there is a scripts folder. If I have the standard version of AS5 can I still use new tool scripts by copying the .lua files and icons to the folder and then adding the tool's name and parameters to the _tool_list txt file?

Genete · Post by **Genete** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:41 pm

Yes you can as far as you have a legal license to do that with the lua files. But to be completely sure read the license.txt file under the readme folder and act accordingly to that.

technoweasel · Post by **technoweasel** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:05 pm

You're right. It seems like it would work, but you would have to modify files and this would violate the license.

synthsin75 · Post by **synthsin75** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:45 pm

You are perfectly free to install any of the modified tools just as you asked. You are not modifying anything in AS. You are just adding a 'plugin' so to speak. That's all any of the scripts really are.

The only scripts lacking from AS standard are the menu scripts. You can still add any free menu scripts posted here, you just have to use them as tool pallette buttons, since there's no script menu in standard. (Doing so with some scripts will make it run twice on Windows, but you can just cancel the second run)

The only thing legally questionable would be if someone shared the LM menu scripts for use in this manor. But if someone wanted to go making superficial changes to these, that may be another matter. Many of the existing free scripts are based directly off of the LM scripts.

But I wouldn't worry at all about using the modified tool scripts. Hell, I could hardly use AS without them.

technoweasel · Post by **technoweasel** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:00 pm

Is there an image series export script that could be used this way?

synthsin75 · Post by **synthsin75** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:07 pm

As far as I know there are no export scripts. The image sequence export is built in to ASP.

technoweasel · Post by **technoweasel** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:25 pm

Can a script look at data in a file and then create keyframes? It seems like someone could then write a seperate program to make actions, or maybe even a graph editor. You could then work out stuff in that program, have it save its data, and then click the script's button in AS5. I don't know much about programming, but this would get around pretty much all of the standard version's limitations.

synthsin75 · Post by **synthsin75** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:37 pm

The only problem with that suggestion is that none of the scripters who already own ASPro would have any interest in developing scripts to expand AS Standard. These things already exist in Pro. If you really want them, you're better off just upgrading to Pro.

technoweasel · Post by **technoweasel** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 10:31 pm

But if there are any scripters out there who would like a challenge and want to help us poor people, please try it.

synthsin75 · Post by **synthsin75** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:00 pm

If you're that poor you should really think about looking into open source programs. Blender, Synfig, etc... As far as animation software goes, you can't do any better on price than AS. The price of ASP is comparable to Toon Boom's cheapest version.

I think I can safely say that you're SOL on getting a scripter to help you out. A large part of the joy of scripting is creating new functionality. Recreating the old is boring, at best.

You best bet is to learn to work around the limitations of Standard, until perhaps you can afford the upgrade. There is absolutely NO incentive for anyone to try to expand the functionality of Standard to emulate Pro.

Makes me wonder if, for example, people go asking Adobe scripters if they can script PS8 functionality into PS Elements.

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:15 pm

I have to agree with Synthsin. There is absolutely no point to script solutions for the "missing" features in standard. Also there probably is no way to do iany how. The missing features can't be added back in because the support is not there in the application.

-vern