A plugin origin to the center of object

Plugin update!

Plugin: center-the-origin.zip (1.9 KB)

  • Goes deep within a nested group, previously only groups at the top level were evaluated
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Hopefully this is final version of plugin, no more updates to this.

The Goal of the plugin, was that it centers the origin (parameter), before you begin to animate things. So this plugin is post processing after you export .sif file from Inkscape

I am open to make minor changes or other bug fixes.

Things out of scope for plugins are:
This plugin doesn’t consider the shapes of curves, may not work properly when a group has transformations within them. I haven’t even tested what happens when you have animated origin or offset (group), doesn’t consider things like transformation layers such as translate, scale, etc.

Centering the origin has been a really important process in making my 100 Animations :nerd_face:, I would like to implement this feature natively in Synfig which would allow me to take advantage of Bounding Box :+1: that is already drawn.

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