A script that captures the coordinates of the mouse clicks and saves them into a file

Question

Hello,
I'm trying to create a cartoon taking a movie (I've chosen blade runner) as base. I've got the real movie and I've exported all the pictures using VirtualDUB. Now I have a lot of images to modify. I would like to modify the actors faces with the faces generated by Facegen modeller. I'm thinking how to make the whole process automatic because I have a lot of images to manage. I've chosen to use Automate BPA,because it seems the best for this matter. I'm a newbie,so this is my first attempt using Adobe Photoshop and Automate BPA. I wrote a little script. It takes a face generated with Facegen modeller and tries to put it above the original actors faces. But it doesn't work very good and I'm not really satisfied,because the process is not fully automated. To save some time I need to write a script that captures the coordinates of the mouse when I click over the faces and that saves them into a file,so that Automate BPA can read these coordinates from that file and can put the face generated with Facegen Modeller above the original face. I think that Automate BPA is not good for this matter. I think that two coordinates are enough,X and Y. They can be the coordinates of the nose,because it is always in the middle of every face. It is relevant to knows how big should be the layer of the new face,too. This is the Automate BPA code that I wrote :
<AMVARIABLE NAME="nome_foto" TYPE="TEXT"></AMVARIABLE>
<AMVARIABLE NAME="estensione_foto" TYPE="TEXT"></AMVARIABLE>
<AMSET VARIABLENAME="nome_foto">br</AMSET>
<AMSET VARIABLENAME="estensione_foto">.jpeg</AMSET>
<AMVARIABLE NAME="numero_foto" TYPE="NUMBER"></AMVARIABLE>
<AMVARIABLE NAME="coord_x" TYPE="NUMBER"></AMVARIABLE>
<AMVARIABLE NAME="coord_y" TYPE="NUMBER"></AMVARIABLE>
<AMWINDOWMINIMIZE WINDOWTITLE="Aggiungere_layer - AutoMate BPA Agent
Task Builder" />
<AMWINDOWMINIMIZE WINDOWTITLE="AutoMate BPA Server Management Console
- localhost (Administrator)" AM_ONERROR="CONTINUE" />
<AMENDPROCESS PROCESS="E:\Programmi_\Adobe Photoshop
CS5\Photoshop.exe" AM_ONERROR="CONTINUE" />
<AMRUN FILE="%&quot;E:\Programmi_\Adobe Photoshop CS5\Photoshop.exe&quot;%" />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="15" />
<AMSENDKEY>{CTRL}o</AMSENDKEY>
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="1" />
<AMINPUTBOX RESULTVARIABLE="numero_foto">Inserire numero FOTO di
partenza -1</AMINPUTBOX>
<AMINCREMENTVARIABLE RESULTVARIABLE="numero_foto" />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="1" />
<AMMOUSEMOVEOBJECT WINDOWTITLE="Apri" OBJECTNAME="%nome_foto &amp;
numero_foto &amp; estensione_foto%" OBJECTCLASS="SysListView32"
OBJECTTYPE="ListItem" CHECKOBJECTNAME="YES" CHECKOBJECTCLASS="YES"
CHECKOBJECTTYPE="YES" />
<AMMOUSECLICK CLICK="double" />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="10" />
<AMSENDKEY>{CTRL}+</AMSENDKEY>
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="20" />
<AMSENDKEY>l</AMSENDKEY>
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="2" />
<AMMOUSEMOVE MOVEX="429" MOVEY="281" RELATIVETO="screen" />
<AMMOUSECLICK />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="2" />
<AMMOUSEMOVE MOVEX="659" MOVEY="281" RELATIVETO="screen" />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="2" />
<AMMOUSECLICK />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="2" />
<AMMOUSEMOVE MOVEX="659" MOVEY="546" RELATIVETO="screen" />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="2" />
<AMMOUSECLICK />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="2" />
<AMMOUSEMOVE MOVEX="429" MOVEY="546" RELATIVETO="screen" />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="2" />
<AMMOUSECLICK />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="2" />
<AMMOUSEMOVE MOVEX="429" MOVEY="281" RELATIVETO="screen" />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="2" />
<AMMOUSECLICK />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="2" />
<AMSENDKEY>v</AMSENDKEY>
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="2" />
<AMMOUSECLICK CLICK="hold_down" />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="2" />
<AMMOUSEMOVE MOVEX="131" MOVEY="99" RELATIVETO="screen" />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="2" />
<AMMOUSEMOVE MOVEX="99" MOVEY="162" RELATIVETO="screen" />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="2" />
<AMMOUSECLICK CLICK="release" />
<AMPAUSE ACTION="waitfor" SCALAR="2" />
<AMINPUTBOX RESULTVARIABLE="coord_x">Inserire coordinata X</AMINPUTBOX>
<AMINPUTBOX RESULTVARIABLE="coord_y">Inserire coordinata Y</AMINPUTBOX>
<AMMOUSEMOVE MOVEX="200" MOVEY="200" RELATIVETO="screen" />
<AMMOUSECLICK CLICK="hold_down" />
<AMMOUSEMOVE MOVEX="%coord_x%" MOVEY="%coord_y%" RELATIVETO="position" />
<AMMOUSECLICK />
and this is a short video to explain better what I want to do :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26687972@N03/5331705934/
In the last scene of the video you will see the script asking to input the X and the Y coordinates of the nose. This request is time consuming. For this reason I want to write a script that captures automatically the coordinates of the mouse clicks. The only thing to do should be click over the nose and the script should make the rest. As "c.pfaffenbichler" suggested here : http://forums.adobe.com/thread/775219, I could explore 3 ways :
1) use the Color Sampler Tool’s input with a conventional Photoshop Script.
2) use After Effects would provide a better solution.
3) Photoshop’s Animation Panel might also offer some easier way as it might be possible to load two movies (or one movie and one image) and animate the one with the rendered head in relation to the other.
Since I'm a totally newbie in graphic and animation,could you help me to explore these ways ? Thanks for your cooperation.

Answer 1

These are the coordinates of the contours of the face that you see on the picture. Can you explain to me how they are calculated ? The coordinates of the first colums are intuitive,but I'm not able to understand how are calculated the coordinates of the second one.
Thanks.
1 COL     2 COL (how are calculated these values ?)
307.5000 182.0000 m
312.5000 192.0000 l
321.5000 194.0000 l
330.5000 193.0000 l
335.0000 187.0000 l
337.0000 180.5000 l
340.0000 174.0000 l
338.5000 165.5000 l
336.0000 159.0000 l
331.5000 153.0000 l
324.5000 150.0000 l
317.0000 154.0000 l
312.5000 161.0000 l
309.0000 173.0000 l
307.5000 182.0000 l
Message was edited by: LaoMar