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    I was looking up tutorials for general mapmaking and gimp and I came upon this. Googling didn't help that much as I'm not that computer savvy. I'd just like a basic description and how I could utilize scripting to help me make maps! Thanks!

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    gimp is moving away from the script ( .scm) API in the old versions of gimp

    Python is being used for a lot of plugins and replacing scripts for a lot of things

    though a scm can be made for automating a series of existing plugins
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    A script is a series of instructions of things to do which a tool can pick up, read, and then follow that set of instructions. Some tools like ImageMagick are entirely script based and have no user interface at all. Thats like a graphics language. Others are like Gimp and Blender where you can load up a script and run it for a complex sequence of events that you dont want to manually do again and again.

    A good example of this is you unload your digital camera and you could run a script to copy and resize all the images to a small size and add a water mark to them so you can upload them to your fav social network.

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    Any examples on how I could use it?

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    look in the scripts folder, it is in the install location
    under scripts
    Code:
    
    scripts
     |
    ├── 3d-outline.scm
    ├── 3dTruchet.scm
    ├── add-bevel.scm
    ├── addborder.scm
    ├── alien-glow-arrow.scm
    ├── alien-glow-bar.scm
    ├── alien-glow-bullet.scm
    ├── alien-glow-button.scm
    ├── alien-glow-logo.scm
    ├── alien-neon-logo.scm
    ├── basic1-logo.scm
    ├── basic2-logo.scm
    ├── beveled-button.scm
    ├── beveled-pattern-arrow.scm
    ├── beveled-pattern-bullet.scm
    ├── beveled-pattern-button.scm
    ├── beveled-pattern-heading.scm
    ├── beveled-pattern-hrule.scm
    ├── blend-anim.scm
    ├── blended-logo.scm
    ├── bovinated-logo.scm
    ├── burn-in-anim.scm
    and so on....

    and look at
    -- filters -- Decor
    -- filters -- alpha to logo
    and
    -- file - create -- pick one
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    The docs can do a better job than I

    http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-scripting.html

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