This probably isn't very helpful, but in my experience, that kind of behavior 
(locked thread and no viewer updates) almost always indicates a mismatch 
between what's being requested from an input and what the plugin is actually 
trying to fetch. My guess is that the source of your problem is actually 
something in your _request method.

You should only need to pass a mask of the channels you're actually planning to 
change to set_out_channels.

-Nathan



From: Derek Melmoth 
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 4:12 PM
To: [email protected] 
Cc: Grant Robertson 
Subject: [Nuke-dev] Problem with non-stop re-rendering when viewing 
certainchannels

Hi,

My plugin is experiencing a problem where in certain cases it will keep 
rendering repeatedly without displaying the result on the screen - while 
rendering repeatedly, the upstream nodes flash yellow to indicate they are 
processing.  In most cases the plugin functions correctly, but the problem can 
occur in special cases such as, for example, you view the alpha channel of a 
merge node that's downstream of my plugin.  (I suspect I might not be handling 
channels correctly?)

I don't know where the cause of the problem is, but I figure it's worth 
investigating the part of the plugin that I don't fully understand yet.

I'm wondering exactly what does the "set_out_channels()" function do?  Inside 
_validate() I am using "set_out_channels(DD::Image::Mask_All)", but I don't 
really understand what that does.  Does it matter that "set_out_channels" is 
called after "copy_info()" rather than before?  My _validate looks more or less 
like this:


_validate(bool for_real){
    for(unsigned int i = 0; i < INPUT_IMAGE_COUNT; ++i){
        DD::Image::Iop::input(i)->validate(for_real);
    }
    DD::Image::Iop::copy_info();

    set_out_channels(DD::Image::Mask_All);
}


My plugin takes 2 input images (both required), and to render a pixel it must 
request the entire row of pixels from both input images.  It outputs all 
channels that are in the first input image, and reads only one channel from the 
second input image.


I'm using Nuke7.0v6 in Windows 7


Any advice or ideas would be great!

Thanks,
-Derek




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