Matt Jordan wrote:
I'm actually pretty excited about the possibility of using Inkscape to do more-or-less traditional, cel style animation. One tedious bit, though, is the outputting of the individual png frames. Would it be possible to write a script or a plug-in that would do that as a batch? So, you'd have background layer plus layer 1 output as 000000.png, background plus layer 2 as 000001.png, and so on? If so, where would I go to learn how to write such a script or plug-in?
If you know python I'd head right over to the gimp_xcf.py script located in inkscape/share/extensions for an example. This particular script only functions on linux because of the way it uses the gimp cli, but the png export portion should work fine in windows. If you don't do python, what language do you want to use? Catch me on Jabber sometime if you have any questions.
Aaron Spike