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+; multisplit: splits up a mavica multi (sprites in one layer) into layers
+; so you make make from png/jpg sprite a gif animation
+; put me in ~/.gimp-ver/scripts and find me script-fu>animators>MultiSplit
+
+(define (script-fu-multisplit multimg
+			      drawable
+			      horizontal
+			      vertical
+			      delay)
+ (let* (
+        (width 0)
+        (height 0)
+	(img 0)
+	(layerNum 0)
+	(hpos 0)
+	(vpos 0)
+	(layer 0)
+	(floatingLayer 0)
+       )
+
+  (set! width (/ (car (gimp-image-width multimg)) horizontal))
+  (set! height (/ (car (gimp-image-height multimg)) vertical))
+  (set! img (car (gimp-image-new width height RGB)))
+
+  (set! vpos 0)
+  (while (< vpos vertical)
+    (set! hpos 0)
+    (while (< hpos horizontal) 
+      (set! layerNum (+ layerNum 1))
+      (set! layer (car (gimp-layer-new img width height RGB
+                   (string-append "Frame" delay "(replace)")
+		   100 NORMAL)))
+
+      (gimp-layer-add-alpha layer)
+      (gimp-drawable-fill layer TRANSPARENT-FILL)
+      (gimp-image-add-layer img layer -1)
+
+      (gimp-rect-select multimg
+        (* hpos width) (* vpos height)
+	width height
+	REPLACE FALSE 0)
+
+      (gimp-edit-copy drawable)
+
+      (gimp-selection-all img)
+
+      (set! floatingLayer (car (gimp-edit-paste layer 0)))
+      (gimp-floating-sel-anchor floatingLayer)
+
+      (gimp-selection-none img)
+      (gimp-selection-none multimg)
+      
+      (set! hpos (+ hpos 1))
+    )
+    (set! vpos (+ vpos 1))
+  )
+
+  (gimp-display-new img)
+ )
+)
+
+(script-fu-register "script-fu-multisplit" 
+		    "<Image>/Script-Fu/Animators/MultiSplit"
+		    "Split an image into layers"
+		    "Rick Miller (Rick.Miller@Linux.org)"
+		    "Rick Miller"
+		    "05/19/2000"
+		    "RGB RGBA GRAY GRAYA"
+		    SF-IMAGE "Image" 0
+		    SF-DRAWABLE "Drawable" 0
+		    SF-VALUE "Horizontal Slices" "3"
+		    SF-VALUE "Vertical Slices" "3"
+		    SF-VALUE "Default Delay" "\"250ms\"")
+