Remembering an Animbrush with George

[NathanOtano]

Ok...

So I need to remember my current tool, do something else with the cutbrush possibilities, and the load back my tool. I can make it work excpet for the images of Animbrushes.

I understand how to save and load the tool settings, but I don't find a way to automatically Save and Load the same set of images of my animbrush.

The tv_brushtoclipboard works only for 1 image.
The tv_savebrushanim and tv_loadbrushanim commands are supposed to do the job, but I have two questions :

Is there a way to always have the good path to save my brush? For exemple my computer in "C:\Windows\Temp" but what about somebody with "D:\Windows\Temp"?
And is there a way to return how much images I have in my animbrush? so when I use the tv_loadanimbrush command I can specify how much image i want to load.

I need to be able to save my tool emporary, any tool including animbrush, and each time erasing the previous temporary saved animbrush is there is one. I don't know if there is a quicker way to do it.

Sometimes I wish that tvpaint have a specific brush file that can save all you brush, settings and eventual images, in one file.

Nathan

[Mike]

Is there a way to always have the good path to save my brush? For exemple my computer in "C:\Windows\Temp" but what about somebody with "D:\Windows\Temp"?

Maybe tv_gettemppath

And is there a way to return how much images I have in my animbrush?

*see post below*

[Mads Juul]

And is there a way to return how much images I have in my animbrush?

What about this :

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tv_BrushInfo 
PARSE result brushWidth brushHeight brushXoffset brushYoffset brushAnimFrames brushUnknown
tv_warn brushAnimFrames

http://wiki.tvpaint.fr/index.php?title=Tv_BrushInfo

If you have saved the animbrush to files in a folder you can count them

something like

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FUNCTION folder_getFiles(folderPath)
	LOCAL  slash i loop j file number length
	tv_readtextfile 0 '"'folderPath'"'
	i=0
	loop=1
	j=0
	WHILE loop
		tv_readtextfile i '"'folderPath'"'
		file = result
		IF CMP(file,"EOF")==1
			loop=0
		ELSE
			PARSE file number file
			filelist(j)=file
			filepath(j)=folderPath"\"file
			j=j+1
		END
		i=i+1
	END
	result=j
	return j
END

this function will return the number of files in the folder.
I this what you are thinking about?

-Mads

[NathanOtano]

Ah! Missed this tv_brushinfo command too, thanks a lot for your help.

In fact I think I'll remember the number of frames that i had on my brush when I temporary store and export the brush, instead of counting it in the folder. And then I'll use it when I'll reload it to specify the number of frames.
Cause because I'm always exporting my brush with the same temporary name, If there is less frames than the last exported brush, I'll have the first frames corresponding to my last brush but the last frames corresponding to the old one that were not erased by the new one.

Thanks again! I think I'll make a great use of your second script too.

Nathan