Hasta La Motion!

hi

Sorry but im very new to Nuke , Im also having problems setting up nuke and it reading customs gizmos,

dont know what im doing wrong.

im running in a tcsh environment on my mac.

so ive got a .tcshrc file in my root that reads

setenv NUKE_PATH /Applicaions/Nuke5.1v2/Nuke5.1v2.app
setenv NUKE_PATH /Users/patrickwong/macros/Nuke_setup/plugins
alias nuke /Applications/Nuke5.1v2/Nuke5.1v2.app/Nuke5.1v2

ive made a init.py and a menu.tcl file, they are in the folder above the gizmos, ( is this where they should sit?) But am not sure what to write in them? ie what variables to setup….

Am i correct im suppose to place the .gizmos into that folder ‘gizmos’ and then nuke will find it. I also remember hearing that im supposed to

put a

menu "Draw/Pat slate" {slate}

into the menu.tcl file.

Please Help ,

thanks

pat

The first ever Nuke master class in London was held in Soho today and over 200 artists from all around Europe attended the event. The session was definitely geared towards artist-types and started with the Foundry’s Jon Waddleton covering python scripting for artists. There were also a ton of cool tips and tricks shown by Nuke gizmos guru Frank Rueter and artists Tahl Niran and Matt Leonard (favorites of fxphd.com members). Double Negative’s Roy Stelzer showed cool techniques for touchup relighting in 2.5D, with a nod to efficient irradiance environment maps developed by Ramamoorthi and Hanrahan. It was really a great session with a ton of fantastic tips and ideas.

For more information : http://www.fxguide.com/qt/694/the-fo…9-nuke-roadmap

I found a LM2DV motion vector in the forum and I would like to generate the motion pass from either renderman / Houdini…

can this code generate the relevant pass for the LM2DV node?

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
surface Motion(
float MaxDisplace = 32;
string TargetSpace = "raster";
)
{
point Pstart = transform(TargetSpace, P);
point Pend = transform(TargetSpace, P+dPdtime);

vector motion = Pend – Pstart;

setcomp(Ci,0, (xcomp(motion)/MaxDisplace+1)*0.5);
setcomp(Ci,1, (1- ycomp(motion)/MaxDisplace)*0.5); /* +y is up */
setcomp(Ci,2, 0);

Oi = 1;
}
////////////////////////////////////////////

Can anyone point me to a good resource for learning more about nuke Tcl expressions and scripting? It’s always frustrating to me to read the manuals for software products where they describe a scripting language but don’t bother to show even one practical example of how it would be used.

Thanks,
goz

hi,

i just found the turorial for the IBK.

while watching it he was using a node "core_matte"
where did he get that one from? can´t find it anywhere 🙂

cheers

alex

edit:
and why are all the tutorials so relaxed if they have white dots in the alpha channel? those composits will flicker like hell 🙁