Stitching images seamless animation

[doodle]

I am looking to make an animated caustic map. I know pretty much how to make it but need it placed perfectly. I need to put an image 256x256 image on lower left of my canvas, then place another 256x256 image on the right side of the first image and continue for 8 images, then add another line starting on the the left for a tota of 8 lines with each line having 8 256 x 256 images, so when finished will be one giant image. Is there a way to get the images to snap into the correct space? I am having a little trouble getting them exactly placed.

Thanks

[Ofnuts]

Define a grid.

[doodle]

Look at the image, zoom in They are stitched perfectly. When I try I get a few right some off. There are only 64 images I need to do, 8 images and 8 lines. Having a hard time trying to post an image. I already have all 64 images in another file I just need to combine them in an 8 by 8 I tried manually but some are off a bit.

https://i.postimg.cc/YC7pHCWM/Newanimate...lmap-1.jpg

[doodle]

no one knows?

[rich2005]

All sorts of ways, the align tool in groups of 10 but very tedious.

Then there is one of Ofnuts scripts: ofn-tiles http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-too...s/scripts/ ofn-tiles.zip (dated 2020-08-16) unzip and check the html usage file.

Various posts as well
https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-ofn-layer-tiles
https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-ofn-tiles
https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-ofn-ti...ort-layers

However the layer numbering is crucial, a straight 0 to 99 will assemble but left to right in sequence, so tile numbering as described in the plugin html doc is needed.

[rich2005]

Got the number of rows and columns wrong used 10x10 instead 8x8 (not paying attention) however just the same.

Using the align tool. All basic stuff https://youtu.be/opl7dpIQJ_A

[doodle]

That vid worked,odd how it was published today. The only problem is the order of the images. I have tried several times to playback, at 8 frames playback jumps like it is skipping rows. Next I will try to number the images so I can see the order, even though order of images looks okay when I am making that tileable texture.
I will get it right soon.Thanks that was exactly what I needed.

[rich2005]

Quote:..That vid worked,odd how it was published today...

Well I did it in response to your post and there is a time zone difference to take into account A lot unsaid in order to keep a sensible length.

The order of images in the stack is not essential but makes things easier. Toggle visibility to select layers before align 'rubber banding' bearing in mind top-to-bottom sorting. Need bottom left to right and up-over. When increasing the canvas size, position the stack in the bottom left corner and use a negative offset in the align tool. Play with the align distribution options. I have to confess, not my favourite Gimp tool.

best of luck.

[doodle]

I figured out what the problem was, My program reads the files in a certain order so I used G.I.M.P. to flip the tiled texture and it worked great. Thanks

[doodle]

I was just wondering since you know gimp. How did you make those textures in the vid? I made mine by adding a caustic tile I found on the net placing on a plane in a 3d program then moving the plane in front of a camera, and recording it, so I would get many textures for my animated texture. If you have time how did you make yours?
Thanks again for the vid.