You can do this with this code: try:Įxcept ImportError: # script being run in testing environment without Krita The trick is to write the script so it will run properly whether it’s invoked within Krita or from the command line. You can do a lot of debugging running them from the command line. Running up Krita just to test a change in your script can be a bit of a bore, … so don’t test your scripts in Krita. Each time you run this you’ll get a new duplicate. Here’s the full code: doc = Krita.activeDocument()īe careful. If you don’t believe me, draw on Layer 2 and run the code again, check the duplicate has the drawing you’ve just made. The method takes two parameters – the node to be inserted and the node to be inserted above. To do that you need to find the root node and add the duplicate as a child of that root: root_node = doc.rootNode() Duplicate just duplicates the node, it doesn’t actually attach it to the document.

This is the hard part! Not that it is difficult but, rather, it’s knowing what to do. So change the name of the duplicate: tName('Duplicate Layer') The duplicated node has the same name as the node that was duplicated: print(dupe.name()) The only thing to note is that it returns a reference to the duplicated node and you have to keep the reference: dupe = node.duplicate() 5. The node object has a method called duplicate that, duplicates itself. You can check you’ve got the right node, by checking its name (names are not unique, but at the moment there are only two nodes): print(node.name()) 4. The document object has a method, nodeByName, that, given the layer’s name, returns the node of that name. In Krita, layers are called nodes, so you need to get a node with the name Layer 2. You’re going to replicate the layer called Layer 2. To get the layer, you’ve first got to get the document object: doc = Krita.activeDocument() (If it doesn’t you’ll need to create your own layer called Layer 2 or this won’t work): The document that Krita creates should have two layers in it already – called Layer 1 and Layer 2. Create a documentįirst, start Krita and create a new document. You can work in Scripter for this project. In particular, you have to manually insert the duplicated node. The trick is to remember that Krita is written in C++ and that means you need to be express about most things. It is possible, but how to do it is not obvious. In an earlier post Eric asks about how to duplicate a layer in Krita.

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