StickMan

[Ego Eram Reputo]

Hi!

Welcome to StickMan. A plugin which helps position & animate a stick figures like the ones above.

The interface uses a simple click-n-drag system. You click and drag the stick figure's 'joints' around to move the figure. The segments' lengths remain fixed as a joint is moved so the entire figure can be moved by dragging a single joint (if you drag it far enough).

 

 

Note: Stick figures are rendered to the active paint.net layer in the currently selected Primary color.

Loading and Saving of your figures and poses is supported. Files are saved as *.stk files. These are not image files. They are XML data files which store the figure and pose.

You can create your own stick figures! There is a guide in the PDF manual (Help > User Manual - once you access the manual a copy will be placed in your Effects folder). Edit: I've added the manual as a separate download as some systems have tight security settings which don't allow the automatic creation of the PDF from within the plugin.

Stick figures can be anything you wish (within certain limits). How about a spider? Or a snake?

 

 

 

 

	StickMan Info
Summary	A plugin which helps position & animate a stick figures
Author	Ego Eram Reputo
Installation	Download my Plugin Pack and unzip it. Run the *.exe installer (written by BoltBait). Restart paint.net.
Menu	Look for the StickMan plugin in the Effects > Render menu.
Compatibility	StickMan works only with paint.net 4+ - or so I thought! @dipstick has confirmed that it (unexpectedly) works with 3.5.11.
Manual	StickMan comes with built-in guides and a manual in PDF format. See Help > User Manual. Once you access the built-in manual a copy will be placed in your Effects folder for future reference. EDIT: I've uploaded the manual as a stand-alone PDF. Get it here StickManManual.pdf
Russian Translation	@ReMake has translated StickMan (including the Manual) into Russian: Stickman_ru.zip Thanks ReMake!

 

StickMan was made with the assistance of TechnoRobbo, Red Ochre and BoltBait


Thanks guys!

 

 

[Eli]

Thanks EER, BoltBait, Red ochre and TechnoRobbo.

 

StickMan has very sticky hands. After grabbing the head and making a few twirls the arms got together and it is impossible to separate them.

[Seerose]

[TechnoRobbo]

 

 

Thanks EER, BoltBait, Red ochre and TechnoRobbo.

We're barely a footnote,it's all EER.

 

Great work Ego!

[lynxster4]

Nice EER!   It's just like a small executable called Pivot that I used to play around with. It also saves files as *.stk.   Nice plugin!!        

[Red ochre]

Great to see you've let him free at last!
Great fun, Thank you. :beer:

[flaner]

how to make animated person?

I think the "user manual" can be removed

 

[BoltBait]

We're barely a footnote,it's all EER.

 

Great work Ego!

This... ^^

[Pixey]

Hey Dude .

 

Me having problems with Sticky Man .

 

 

Can't get the Manual.  It's saving as a .stk but pics not recognized unless one is actually in the Stick man itself.

 

 

[Ego Eram Reputo]

Eli: have you tried increasing the scale? It might give you some separation. If that doesn't work please save the figure and PM it to me.

Seerose: Wonderful! Thank you.

TechnoRobbo, Red Ochre & Boltbait: Thank you my friends!

Lynxster4: I hope the file extension will not be a problem for you. I chose *.STK off the top of my head

Flamer & Pixey: you can't open the manual because of the permissions set on the paint.net/Effects/ folder. Here's how to fix that...

1. Navigate to the paint.net installation folder.

2. Right click on the Effects folder > Properties

3. Click the Security tab.

4. Give yourself Full Control by checking the check box.

5. Apply this setting & click OK to exit.

[IRON67]

I think, that the problems with the manual are a result of missing rights of PDN to write in the "Effects" folder. On my system the manual was created without problems.

 

Oh ... some seconds to late....

Edited May 7, 2016 by IRON67

[Ego Eram Reputo]

@Flaner: create an animated stick figure by rendering to successive layers. Each layer should contain the figure in a slightly different pose to create the illusion of motion.

The layers can be animated (I.e saved) in the AGIF format with the Animated Image file type plugin. Once saved all you need to do is rename the file extension from agif to gif.

*.STK files are data files not images. They contain XML data which StickMan parses to draw the figures.

Iron67 - you are correct.

[Pixey]

I did that and it still doesn't work .

 

 

In the General Tab it says Read Only - is that OK?

[Pixey]

Still can't get the Manual .............. but managed to get it to play with me .  Nice Plugin @EER .

 

 

 

[Ego Eram Reputo]

Highlight each of the entries in the top box of the Security tab dialog. One or more of them will have Full Control deselected. Click the Edit button to change the setting. Then Apply. Do that for each of the entries which don't have Full Control.

Win 10 can be a bit if a pain in the security area. I've applied full control to nearly everything on my system

[ReMake]

Eli, select a point on one of the hand - it will help to separate hands after some rotation.

[Red ochre]

Pixey
Just a thought - do you have both Paint.Net (3.5.11) and paint.net (4.0.9) installed?
If so are you checking the permissions for the right Effects folder?... you probably are, as Stickman wouldn't shouldn't* work at all in the wrong folder.

 

* see post 20

[Pixey]

@EER's 2nd suggestion worked - all the entries in the Security dialog box had to be changed.

 

 

 

[Eli]

Thanks EER and Remake, both solutions get rid of the sticky arms.

[dipstick]

[Ego Eram Reputo]

^^ Wow. I didn't expect that. Thanks for the info dipstick.

 

Pixey: glad you got it working. I'll add the PDF manual to the first post in case others also have permissions trouble. In fact I can see I'll need to rewrite some of the first post.

 

ReMake has begun a translation into Russian. I'll absolutely endorse it of course! Thanks ReMake.

[dipstick]

This is a fun little plugin. Cheers..........

 

[flaner]

I could not open the pdf
Maybe he did not need?
The plugin has an intuitive management 

[ReMake]

@flaner

   

 

And for 'ВСЕ ПАКЕТЫ ПРИЛОЖЕНИЙ' too.

 

See link for Manual in the first post.

[Pixey]

Isn't @Remake so clever .  I love it when I hear read Russian .