PhotoMaster's Rubiks Cube Tutorial

Oregonian · **Posted:** Mon Aug 30, 2010 8:01 pm **(#21)**

Mike wrote:

I have tried that however it continues to reproduce the same error. I am almost certain it is a conflict with a plugin or a script I added after the initial installation. The three I added were the FX-Foundry scripts, the Script-Fu layer effects and the Kward1979uk glass effects scripts. I suppose sense would dictate I remove those one by one and see if that resolves the issue. Then again, sense is not my strong suite.

I think your suspicions may be correct. I tried a 4x4 grid, even made the image larger (600x600px) to see if it would crash. It came out fine - no crash. Here's the 4x4 one I made plus I've attached the 4x4 xcf file if someone else would like to give it a try.

Avarra · **Joined:** Dec 31, 2010 **Posts:** 6

Hi Greg,

what a wonderful Tut - I have a question to you.

What's the name of the font in your Gimp themes?

Loves from Germany

Avarra :gimp

PhotoMaster · **Posted:** Sat Jan 01, 2011 8:29 pm **(#23)**

I don't have that machine any more, but I think it might be comic sans.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16197

Cant you change that in your gtkrc file by placing a style in there?
I think Saul showed me how to do that in another post somewhere...

Now where did we put that....ahh yes place this in your gtkrc file in your gimp 2.0 folder in user docs

style "gimp-default-style"
{
font_name = "sans 10"
}

But i believe you would want to change that to "comic-sans 10"

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16197

Scratch that it should look like this

style "gimp-default-style"
{
font_name = "comic sans ms 10"
}

mahvin · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2010 **Posts:** 4050

Nice! Thanks for the tutorial (yeah, you created this before I joined gimpchat). This was lots of fun, but for some reason my map object took 10 minutes to render a 480 x 480 image. Weird.

PhotoComix · **Joined:** Apr 12, 2010 **Posts:** 5870

btw.

i still have the code for Map to Object with a maximized preview (about 5X the actual) for gimp 2.6 as for gimp 2.7

Just in case somebody wish compile his gimp as example to try the bleeding edge versions of 2.7 (once compiled i suppose that may be shared, at least on similar distro)

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16197

PhotoComix wrote:

btw.

i still have the code for Map to Object with a maximized preview (about 5X the actual) for gimp 2.6 as for gimp 2.7

Just in case somebody wish compile his gimp as example to try the bleeding edge versions of 2.7 (once compiled i suppose that may be shared, at least on similar distro)

Maybe RobA will give it a go!

I would love to see a larger preview in IWARP, but you can get one by just selecting an area and opening IWARP.It gives you quite a nice large preview of the area you are editing.

Still it would be nice to be able to just open it and start working.Ah well back on subject ... sorry about that.

PhotoMaster · **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2011 5:15 pm **(#29)**

Great intel guys!

@Oregonian - The quad idea is sweet!

@Mahvin - Hey Mahv! That is an awesome cube! Your original images are phenominal!

mahvin · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2010 **Posts:** 4050

Thanks, Greg. I took those on Mount Hood, at Trillium Lake. Lots of sights to take in: flyfishing, ducks, canoers, etc.

PhotoMaster · **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2011 9:17 pm **(#31)**

A new addition to my bucket list! Trillium lake!

wbool63 · **Posted:** Thu Feb 03, 2011 6:57 am **(#32)**

Some time ago, I got persistent errors if one of the angles was very close to or exactly 90.degrees I think it had something to do with the trig functions of 90 degrees becoming close to zero or infinity. From memory it had something to do divide by zero errors. The problem is described in GimpTalk but I cant find it anymore. The error occurs on map to box. And perhaps this problem is now fixed .

I mention this because someone in this thread had the plug-in crash and I was just wondering if this may apply.

Oregonian · **Posted:** Thu Feb 03, 2011 9:41 am **(#33)**

wbool63 wrote:

Some time ago, I got persistent errors if one of the angles was very close to or exactly 90.degrees I think it had something to do with the trig functions of 90 degrees becoming close to zero or infinity.

Makes sense.
cos 90° = 0
tan 90° =

PhotoMaster · **Posted:** Thu Feb 03, 2011 9:29 pm **(#34)**

Yes. I remember getting errors at certain settings with map to object, but I can't remember what settings they were.

AeonTown · **Joined:** Dec 20, 2010 **Posts:** 49

Where does the Rule Of Thirds script show up in the menus?

PhotoMaster · **Posted:** Sat Feb 05, 2011 11:02 pm **(#36)**

The last one on my View menu.

AeonTown · **Joined:** Dec 20, 2010 **Posts:** 49

PhotoMaster wrote:

The last one on my View menu.

Thanks. This was fun to do. I was going to animate the box rotating 180 degrees but it does take a long time for Gimp to render the box each time. If I rotate 5 degrees per layer at @ 5 minutes per render thats over 2 hours of animating. Maybe I'll give it a try.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16197

You could do some of those animation frames by doing 4 sides then copy them slightly rotated with the rotation tool.

PhotoMaster · **Posted:** Tue Feb 08, 2011 10:19 am **(#39)**

Great cube! Andy Warhol would certainly love it!!

AeonTown · **Joined:** Dec 20, 2010 **Posts:** 49

Anyone ever get this messgae:

Plug-in crashed: "map-object.exe"
(C:\Program Files (x86)\GIMP-2.0\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\map-object.exe)

The dying plug-in may have messed up GIMP's internal state. You may want to save your images and restart GIMP to be on the safe side.

It keeps coming up even after I restart Gimp.