Hey everyone! I’m just working on a script at the moment and it requires strokes that accelerate smoothly. an example of what i mean
Is there a way to do this quickly and smoothly in ofs?
Is this what you were looking for?
I actually don’t have a good hack around this. Such a lua script existed before but is outdated: 11 Lua Scripts for OpenFunscripter
In the past I would use MakeVibrationsExt for OFS. It allows you to create micro movements with gradually increasing / decreasing frequency. I would create a section of such vibration, strip out the top points and alternate the remaining points between top and bottom.
cant seem to get this working (im new to all this lol) so im not sure, but it doesnt look like it has the sort of thing im after. im thinking i just select 2 points, and it makes a gradient between them of gradually faster strokes. for example, i select point 1 and start it at 50mm/s, and then the end point and end it at 400mm/s. Stroke length isn’t important for my case. I think im just going to do it manually because it isnt a long segment i need, even though it will be a bit of a pain to make smooth
I’m actually working on an extension for this right now! It’s still a little buggy and currently only works if the selected points are at the very end, and crashes might happen, but try this and let me know if it works for you.
Hey! could you explain how to install this please? I have tried just putting it in a folder in my extensions and when i try to use it, it keeps crashing. Sorry if that sounds like a dumb question im just new to OFS and not very technical lol. Other extensions seem to work when i do that. Thanks
The folder StrokeSpeed should go in the extensions directory, which you can open through the extensions menu.
I’m still working out all the bugs, but for your use case you would create a bunch of strokes at the fastest speed you want, select all of them and then check the live preview button. Then adjust the sliders until you get the pattern you want.
It will probably crash if there are any unselected points after your selection, I’m still working out the bugs.
doesnt seem to be working at all for me. just gives a bunch of different messages when i try to click on live preview, and another error when i click on apply transformation
If you’re using the ‘Live Preview’ checkbox, you shouldn’t need to click apply transformation. Just make your changes, then uncheck the Live Preview box to commit them.
Otherwise, I’m not quite sure how you triggered this error. Could you send the file you’re trying to modify, or at least screenshots of what you’re trying to do?
You can set a vibration section to the maximum amplitude to make it to 0-100. Doing that in the transition mode allows you to even make it start slowly and speed up. There is no infinite control on this, but it at least does work.
Something like:
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Linear ms or APS checks the transition speed based on the ms between strokes, Ms tries to keep the interval between actions linear, which generaly means that near the end the ramping up happens faster, APS keeps the actions per second linear, which is usualy the smoothest possible, but can sometimes also be undesired.
And regarding the infinite control statement, the plugin was never made to work with decimal numbers, so the aps is limited to integers. For longer sections this will work fine for this task, but for sections of just a few seconds it wont work. its designed for vibrations which usualy have shorter intervals.
Unfortunately mostly only useful for CGI where things most of the time don’t change, but in my experience, also because I take extra caution now with the Handy 2 Pro, in real life scenes the speed changes are sometimes so different that I have to take a look at every single point and make things start earlier/later/higher/lower than the stroke before. Useful for repeating strokes though! I used MakeVibrations for that too in some tests (by removing points afterwards).
