Hasta La Motion!

The new particles have me perplexed. There seem to be some Huge leaps of faith in missing documentation on how things work and don’t work.

For example. I’m currently trying to do a particle element of material flecking off. As the particles drift away, I want them to fade. I thought this was as easy as adding a "Particle Curve" node and setting the gradient on the Alpha channel. And… at first this does work. However. Using a simple image for the particle renders the Rotation parameter of the "Particle Emitter" useless (no docs on that).

Quite randomly I put a "Card" node in between my image and the ‘particle’ input of the "Particle Emitter" and suddenly the rotation setting is working…. but now the fade from the "Particle Curve" doesn’t…. ?!?!? The particles stay fully solid from birth to death as if the "Particle Curve" node doesn’t exist.

I had always thought Nuke’s workflow was as straight forward as Shake or Fusion… "add a node, get an effect" But the particle system seems to require some other things to happen for nodes to even do what they’re supposed to do.

If anyone can point me in the direction of where this sort of stuff is documented (because the normal docs and tooltips don’t cover it) that would be great. Even better if you can explain how to make an particle (image sprite) flip and and spin and actually fade out over it’s lifespan… that would be splendid.

I am a new user in Nuke .

How to "Nuke auto save" saves files in sequence?

Or

What is script for running auto save sequence system in this image?

Sorry for this beginner question.

Thank You.

I’m working at 25fps,

But when i export my camera and ground plane cards from Nuke, it sets the FBX framerate to 24fps, which when imported to 3dsmax, means my track is slightly out.

Does anyone know a way to set the exported frame rate of an fbx file in Nuke,
Or any other workflow to get my camera and geometry into 3dsmax at the same frame rate.
Or any scripts or gizmos to help etc.

i’ve tried a chan file, but then i don’t know where my ground plane is so my cg elements don’t sit perfectly on the floor.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Lee

What I’m trying to do is add motion blur to an image that I plugged into the reconcile 3D node. I play with the motion blur knobs but it doesn’t affect the image. I believe the motion blur parameters in this node only work if there’s key frames in the 2d transform section. I do not. I have a 3d point and my camera data animating.

I 3d tracked my FG and now I want to use the 3D data to place 2d objects in my scene. I’ve accomplished this but I can not get motion blur to work.

I figured out a cheat by using the OFlow node.

Is there another logical way?

When rendering with maya in the background Nuke pretty much locks up. every operation takes ages to get processed.
To get Nuke usable I have to stop any background 3D rendering.

This does not happen with any other program. All are usable during background rendering.

Anyone else experienced this?
Would be great if there is a way around this.

Greetings
Andreas