# Automation Tools

#### What version of Aegisub do I need?

<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Please refer to the </span>[Aegisub Setup](https://wiki.holoresorttls.org/books/subbing-guidelines/page/aegisub-setup)<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> page for details on the arch1t3cht fork of Aegisub, which has first-class support for automation tools.</span>

<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Aegisub 3.4.0 and later also has support for DependencyControl, but you have to install with </span>`<span class="editor-theme-code">Full installation</span>`<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span>

#### DependencyControl Tools

These are tools that you can install once you have arch1t3cht/Aegisub or Aegisub 3.4.

`<span class="editor-theme-code">Automations > DependencyControl > Install Script</span>`

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Here are some useful tools and the basics on how to use them. They are also known as “scripts.”

****ASSWipe****

- Cleans + Sorts your scripts and removes unnecessary lines, reducing file size.
- This is more useful in soft-subbing

****Blur and Glow (Double Border)****

- This allows you to automatically add double borders to your subtitles
- This also provides as the name says, Blur and Glow.

****Gradient by Character****

- This makes your line go through a gradient by changing the colors of each character gradually.
- It can only make a gradient horizontally. Vertically if vertical Japanese.
- <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">This is commonly seen and used in </span>****youtube captions****.
- <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Just add </span><u>**at least**</u><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> 2 colors to your line.</span>  
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- Run the script

****Gradient Everything****

- This is a more versatile yet complex version of gradient which gives you the ability to gradient horizontally or vertically on the screen.
- You need two same lines separately, yet each having its colors.  
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- You also need to either input a clip border or have all lines have the same pos.
- Run the script and you will be given an interface where you choose how you’d want to gradient the line.
- It will keep already written tags and still gradient horizontally/vertically.

****HYDRA****

- Allows you to mass add tags on lines.
- Clicking “Load Full” gives you a lot more options.

****Hyperdimensional Relocator****

- Yes.
- <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Shit tons of useful features. Here’s a </span>[video](https://youtu.be/EwWLntUlLrE)<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> that shows some of it.</span>

****Masquerade****

- There’s a lot of tools that can turn clips into drawings but this one does it best.
- Simply draw a clip, select “from clip” mask type, and click “Masquerade”.

****Shapery****

- Made to replicate most of the tools used in Adobe Illustrator.

****More may be added soon.****

Link to manuals for certain tools, including Blur and Glow, HYDRA, Colourise, and Hyperdimensional Relocator:  
[https://unanimated.github.io/ts/scripts-manuals.htm](https://unanimated.github.io/ts/scripts-manuals.htm)

#### Off the Shelf Tools

These are some tools that aren’t in DepCon but can still be accessible through other means. Mainly GitHub.

- Perspective
- Chloro
- Centipede
- More may be added soon.