You may know about my other stuff about OpenToonz plugins. I came to the decision to recreate it as a new project called the toonz expansion pack. Previously I put far too much emphasis on the low level COM like API stuff. On the contrary, you can do much with the higher level stuff such as GLSL shaders. You can find far more detail (Complete with images) in my new thread.

To OpenToonz and Tahoma2D, there are two different types of Fx's. A regular and zerary where zerary is not to have any input ports and regular does. This wasn't documented at all, but a single macro flag TOONZ_PLUGIN_CLASS_MODIFIER_GEOMETRIC is (what it appears so far) to be implementing a zerary effect that has its own level and camera. There's bound to be a ton of stuff left to discover that isn't documented at all.

My Tahoma2D project that's a powerhouse bundling of stuff to make Tahoma2D as awesome as it can be is under the GPLv3 now. Just my stuff, the original sources are untouched. Reason being is that in the scenario I static link against ffmpeg and/or enable the gpl stuff in ffmpeg, I have to make it GPL. And I'm just preparing in the scenario it gets bigger as it goes along, so I decided to GPL it.

If you don't like the GPL, the only thing that might catch you is the header file wrapper (The wolf and dwango plugins use a wrapper also) that if you pull it in, you have to GPL your plugins that links against OpenCV. I suggest making your own wrapper if you don't want that.

I mentioned last news update I might do a custom build of Tahoma2D, that's only if I decide on linking against ffmpeg that requires GPL licensing or some other reason. I'll cross that bridge when I have to cross it.

This is going to be a short status report on whats to come in the future. I started this a few days ago wanting to make a plugin or two for Tahoma2D. Over the few days I've discovered how little documentation there truly is how more under the hood Tahoma2D/OpenToonz truly is. Another issue that arose was compiling the plugins from the github repo against my debian version of OpenCV. This resulted in segmentation faults killing the program. So I have no choice but to distribute my own build of Tahoma2D.

What I'm doing is making and collecting plugins, macros, brushes, user themes, shaders, particle effects, and anything else I can think up and distribute my own build of Tahoma2D via GitHub actions. It's all rather simple and I'll keep making tiny status updates as I go along.

In the past two days I've learned a lot about how you can extend OpenToonz/Tahoma2D. I started off thinking it's primarily in C++ with OpenCV, but you can also extend it with themes in CSS, GLSL shaders, particle effects, user macros to set presets for convenience, MyPaint brushes, and other stuff I might not have even discovered yet. I'll keep making news posts to this as I toy with it.

I made this because I wanted to help contribute to opentoonz as well as add additional documentation I found to be lacking. It's been one hell of a ride, but I think it's paying off so far. I at first posted it in my file dump, but it's gotten big enough to justify a github repository. OpenToonz/Tahoma2D is incredibly powerful, it just needs more contributions and documentations for others to be inspired to make their own.

Right now I'm just toying with the OpenToonz/Tahoma2D plugin system which utilizes it's own internal API as well as OpenCV for plugin effects. Nothing big or world changing, just wanted to toy with things. If I make anything interesting, I'll make an update. I put it here.

I've wasted too much time on bullshit, from here on out, animation is my #1 concern outside of personal health.

I'm stalked and intimidated. I can hardly think for myself at times because I have been mentally beaten so much I'll do whatever it takes to survive. FBI and intel and other world wide agencies are working around the clock to fully destroy me as much as they can. They're not going to win, the fact I'm typing this out is proof I'm starting to get stronger.

I swear I'm being stalked by some unknown enemy, but I need to stop using display managers because they're fucking with my head. And every time I think of saying something, I get some vague threat about it. Well fuck that, not dealing with this bullshit anymore like I have for the past few days.

It's just too long of a story to go into the verbose details, so I'll give you the tl;dr. I spend a WEEK of misery and self loathing because of my mental health issues to put it mildly. I wanted to jump back into writing because why not, nothing big, but I was obsessed to the point of almost a mental breakdown of finding the perfect environment. And trust me, combined with manic-depressive episodes + OCDish tendencies, it was a recipe for disaster. But I don't care about any of that anymore. I've found emacs to be very useful and I have no stake in the editor war. Primarily fountain mode markdown, it was the only converter to PDF that actually imported right into fade in which I tested multiple other programs that all failed. The PDF exported from fountain mode was rendered properly such as a scene element was classified as a scene by fade in, characters were characters, and so on. Rest of them, were being imported all as action elements. So in a nutshell, I went through hell and back because of personal issues and I feel much better. And I'm talking waking up at 4-5 AM and investing into this delusional obsession for the entire day. 7 days straight. And I really thought I could make the next big thing. Like linus torvalds big and I would be seen as a god like figure. This is what manic obsessions do to me, this is why life is a very difficult thing for me.

Why all this hell? Because I have a strong tendency to get really obsessed with things and any roadblock both real or imagined I'll fight tooth and nail to avoid. The fact I am self aware of my problems made me even more self hating because I kept falling for temptation for a whole week straight.

I'm much better now, I think (and hopefully truly do now) got this out of my system and I can focus on other artistic endeavors.