How to replace single point with pattern?

[SzFrs]

Does anyone know if there is a way to change a script from:

To for example:

Using a ‘replace all’ type function?

I’ve done everything manually so far but it’s so time-consuming.

It would help a lot if there was a way to save a pattern (position and time for every point), then select all top points in a script and hit replace all.

The tool extension for OFS has a kind of pattern function but it only saves position for each point, not time. And you can’t replace 1 point with 5, only replace the same amount of points.

I thought maybe I had to use the add point function to add extra points to my script and then apply pattern to the new points.

But this takes a longer time than just making the pattern once per script and hitting Ctrl+V a hundred times.

[Falafel]

I don’t think there is a straightforward solution atm… and I agree such a feature would be very useful.

One thing you can do though is to select all top points, shift it a few steps backward, then paste the pattern on all top points.

[StanSpook]

A while back I made a simple lua script for myself that makes the points go from this:

To this:

For the sole sake of making curves by adjusting those sliders:

If you do it twice, once to create the further points (lets say 68ms and lets say position delta = 10) it will look like this

and then without deselecting (it will crash if you use it on anything that is selected and isnt simple up down up down) choose a higher delta and lower ms (lets say delta = 20, ms = 47) it will create points that look the same as the screenshot you provided in your question:

Here is the lua if you want to try and use it:

Untitled - Pastebin.com

(press download and rename it from untitled.txt to main.lua, then create a folder in the “extensions” folder in your OFS, create a folder for this script and put it in there)

I never thought of even sharing this script as it’s pretty rough and only works in special circumstances (up, down, up, down / down, up, down, up) but if you want to use it feel free to do it.
It will create those patterns both at the top and bottom points, if you want me to I can do an edit of this script some time soon to only do it at top / bottom points, but please let me know first if you’d want something like this first.

[SzFrs]

I haven’t tried it out yet but this could be exactly what I was looking for.

[Chris_Leo]

Wow, this is interesting. Sorry about the newbie question but how do I run a LUA? Is there a help file somewhere to explain?

[SzFrs]

If it’s anything like other OFS extensions, you just put the .lua file in your extensions folder and then ‘run’ it using the extensions drop down menu inside OFS itself.

[Chris_Leo]

Thanks, I’ll try that.

[SzFrs]

I’ve tried it out and this is actually super useful and easy to use.

It works great for me because i try to manually time the bottom points, then add and maybe shift top points with another program, and finally I could use this to add some variety to strokes.

The only additional feature I can think of is if it had the option of only doing top or bottom points.