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Automatic text fill - taholmes160 - 01-08-2023
HI folks:
I am building some game assets for a railroading game, and each one has a unique number on it in 2 different locations. the number itself is random, is there a way to automate the process some how?
It takes about 30 seconds or so to create a livery (Its a bit tedious) and by the time this is done, I will have several hundred of them
Any suggestions?
TIM
RE: Automatic text fill - rich2005 - 01-09-2023
Bumping this up in case anyone has a good idea for Gimp.
I think you might be better off using command line ImageMagick (IM). http://www.imagemagick.org and a good forum https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/discussions
I can get a result (of sorts) with a list of numbers, random or otherwise in a text file, and a set of numbered images.
Planting the number in two places on an image.
...but I use linux and not too sure about the equivalent Windows batch commands.
The linux file looks like this, for simplicity takes a png as input and outputs a jpeg.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
file=$(cat list.txt)
img=1
for line in $file
do
echo "$line"
magick $img.png \
-gravity South -font Arial -pointsize 32 -fill white -annotate +0+5 $line \
-gravity North -font Arial -pointsize 32 -fill white -annotate +0+5 $line \
$img.jpg
img=$((img+1))
done..no use for Windows, just as an example, although the magic command will work
RE: Automatic text fill - taholmes160 - 01-09-2023
(01-09-2023, 11:06 AM)rich2005 Wrote: Bumping this up in case anyone has a good idea for Gimp.
I think you might be better off using command line ImageMagick (IM). http://www.imagemagick.org and a good forum https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/discussions
I can get a result (of sorts) with a list of numbers, random or otherwise in a text file, and a set of numbered images.
Planting the number in two places on an image.
...but I use linux and not too sure about the equivalent Windows batch commands.
The linux file looks like this, for simplicity takes a png as input and outputs a jpeg.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
file=$(cat list.txt)
img=1
for line in $file
do
echo "$line"
magick $img.png \
-gravity South -font Arial -pointsize 32 -fill white -annotate +0+5 $line \
-gravity North -font Arial -pointsize 32 -fill white -annotate +0+5 $line \
$img.jpg
img=$((img+1))
done
..no use for Windows, just as an example, although the magic command will work
I have a linux computer, so thats no issues -- i'll have to look into this a bit more -- can it be modified to output as a png as well?
TIM
RE: Automatic text fill - rich2005 - 01-09-2023
Quote:....snip...can it be modified to output as a png as well?
It can, If you have IM from a linux repo then the command magick probably = convert. I use the linux magick appimage from their site.
Many formats supported typically
magick infile.ext outfile.ext
...although if you want infile.png > (modified) infile.png write the new file to a new folder and apply a path in the commandline.
edit: just a reminder the images are sequentially numbered 1.png 2.png....n.png the list.txt file contains the random numbers, one per line. Lookup the linux shuf command.