Blog Posts: tagged with Gizmos

nuke_icon_toolkit is a collection of high-DPI (512x512) icons for Foundry Nuke, intended to help you replace the low-resolution icons included by default.

Some gizmos dynamically hide/show a number of knobs with the KnobChanged python callback. This is a good option to keep your gizmo's UI clean, but can start to get very heavy when you have too many knobs to handle, and too many nodes inside your gizmo.

Instead, it can be cleaner to use Python Script Buttons to add/remove knobs/nodes from your gizmo to keep things fast, neat and tidy.

I whipped up the following example node, which you can download here, to see how this works.

There are two common ways you can expression-link knobs in Nuke.

1. CTRL+Dragging one knob to another
2. Right-clicking, choosing "add expression", then typing your expression.

The TCL syntax for expression-linking knobs is simple: {node_name}.{knob_name}.

However, there are some knobs that are a little more difficult to expression-link. For example, a channels knob can only be linked to other channels knobs, by CTRL+dragging+dropping the = button between them. Additionally, there is no visible option to expression-link Pulldown Knobs, such as a node's filter knob. However, we can solve these problems with a little bit of Python.

In the following example, we're going to be expression-linking Transform2's filter knob to Transform1's filter knob. Let's write one line of Python to help us do this in the Script Editor.

I'm excited to announce that I have just released a new course, aimed at introducing Compositors to GitHub!

When adding a new gizmo to a menu inside of Nuke, I like to recycle the existing icons so I can keep everything thematically consistent. However, these icons are buried inside Nuke's install directory, and I always forget exactly where they live...

Unless you're Compositing at Weta, Nuke's Deep tools are quite barebones and don't allow much flexibility. An issue I have commonly encountered is a lack of image filtering when DeepMerging two Deep images together, which causes crunchy edges. You could correctly argue that this comes from a lack of deep samples in rendered images, but this is often necessary to reduce render times out of lighting.

Matching grain can be tricky at times. The best way to add grain to your comp & get it to match the plate is to just use the grain from the plate!

For this example, I'm going to be using this stock footage from videvo.net.

First, we have to identify when this technique is useful, and when it might not be...