Err.. actually it's the MCP …d'oh
well no job at MPC for me anymore 

cheers

On 21.11.2011, at 21:49, Dennis Steinschulte wrote:

> hey ned,
> 
> this is interesting information, but i haven't worked on TRON or somehow 
> 'near' the cinema world, lately
> So far I deleted everything in the scripts (haven't been many in the few days 
> i figured out the add_layer part). But today, while showing several old comps 
> (6.0.1 nearly over a year old), the RED GREEN BLUE (aka the red guard - virus 
> ;) ) showed up all of a sudden.
> OMG, the MPC really taking over all scripts… the past .. the future???
> 
> cheers, the anxiously Dennis
> 
> 
> On 21.11.2011, at 20:50, Ned Wilson wrote:
> 
>> This thread is great, I haven't seen this issue going around in a while! I 
>> was a compositor on Tron at DD, and that is exactly where this "channel 
>> virus" came from. The red guards were the armies of programs that CLU used 
>> as his muscle in the machine world of Tron. They can be seen in the 
>> background of many shots, and they wear helmets and carry spears which glow 
>> in some cases. The costume designers on that show did an amazing job. Those 
>> lines on the suits that glow were actually practical. However, there were 
>> some cases where they wanted the glow enhanced, or the electrical portions 
>> of the suits were malfunctioning, so we did this work digitally. Once a look 
>> was established, someone at DD made a gizmo for the glow enhancement, hence 
>> the redguard1.glow layer.
>> 
>> This thing is insidious. It quickly spread to pretty much every comp on 
>> Tron. Whenever you cut and paste a node from a script which has this layer, 
>> it would embed the layer creation code in the cut and paste stack, as 
>> someone on the list demonstrated. Every time a script was reused, a gizmo 
>> exported, or an artist shared some nodes with another artist, the channel 
>> virus was propagated. The redguard1.glow layer started showing up elsewhere 
>> in DD, it surfaced on Real Steel and Transformers 3. 
>> 
>> As mentioned previously in the thread, the only way to get rid of this is 
>> with a text editor, or if you're handy with sed or awk you can probably 
>> figure that out too. Every Nuke script in the entire facility must be 
>> checked, plus every single gizmo and Nuke script that is found in the 
>> NUKE_PATH environment. Don't forget user's home directories either.
>> 
>> 
>> On Nov 19, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Dan Walker wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm gonna try a show wide search for this in all our Nuke comps on Monday. 
>>> 
>>> Will let ya know what I find too.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Diogo Girondi <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> I'll look for those in some scripts I have here. But I honestly don't 
>>> remember seeing any of those layers showing up in 6.3v2 and earlier 
>>> versions.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 19/11/2011, at 13:53, Ean Carr <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Well, what a coincidence. I just found a script at our facility with this:
>>>> 
>>>> add_layer {rgba rgba.beta redguard1.glow}
>>>> 
>>>> Fun times.
>>>> 
>>>> -Ean
>>>> 
>>>> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Ean Carr <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Our little "virus" layer is rgba.beta. Can't seem to get rid of the little 
>>>> rascal. -Ean
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Howard Jones <[email protected]> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> I've sent this to support - but it could be a legacy thing, I'm on 6.2v2 
>>>> here so maybe 6.3 has the cure?
>>>>  
>>>> Howard
>>>> 
>>>> From: Dennis Steinschulte <[email protected]>
>>>> To: Howard Jones <[email protected]>; Nuke user discussion 
>>>> <[email protected]> 
>>>> Sent: Saturday, 19 November 2011, 11:29
>>>> 
>>>> Subject: Re: [Nuke-users] ??? redguard1.glow ???
>>>> 
>>>> Fun, now that you mention it, I have had reguard and other written words 
>>>> in my nuke file as well as the RED GREEN BLUE thingie I posted a few days 
>>>> earlier.
>>>> Reading through these posts i have seen some similarities here.
>>>> I got an uncorrupted file for a show FileA_uncor with Nuke 6.0.1. There 
>>>> are python, tcl, expressions and all the "regular" stuff in it. Even with 
>>>> scripted import and whiteout footage nodes.
>>>> Now I have got a new job where i need to get parts of the FileA_uncor. I 
>>>> copy/paste beaches of trees out of the old into the new Nuke 6.3.2 script. 
>>>> And after a short SAVE / CLOSE / RESTART NUKE, i have this strange 
>>>> behavior and i get FileB_cor with all the RED GREE … REGUARD, HORIZONT and 
>>>> other strange channel names  i have never even created.
>>>> Creating a fresh nuke 6.3.2 file, everything works as expected.
>>>> This corruption even appears, when i copy these branches from 6.3.2 back 
>>>> into Nuke 6.0.1 . 
>>>> Ok my head feels dizzy now.
>>>> I hope this report is kinda useful…
>>>> Dennis
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 19.11.2011, at 11:53, Howard Jones wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Well I'm buggered - chasing up another issue and suddenly I see redguard!!
>>>>> This script corrupted with {rgba.red, rgba.green..} appearing everywhere 
>>>>> which I fixed but every node has ( red green blue) in its label so below 
>>>>> id just from copying a grade node out and there it is!
>>>>> No Tron Gizmo I'm aware of.
>>>>>  
>>>>> Howard
>>>>> 
>>>>> set cut_paste_input [stack 0]
>>>>> version 6.2 v2
>>>>> push $cut_paste_input
>>>>> add_layer {rgb rgb.red rgb.green rgb.blue}
>>>>> add_layer {rgba rgba.beta redguard1.glow rgba.edgeblur}
>>>>> add_layer {hilites hilites.red hilites.green hilites.blue hilites.alpha}
>>>>> Grade {
>>>>>  white {1.933333278 1.684004068 1.478999972 1}
>>>>>  maskChannelInput hilites.green
>>>>>  name Grade145
>>>>>  selected true
>>>>>  xpos -1158
>>>>>  ypos -2623
>>>>> }
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> From: Howard Jones <[email protected]>
>>>>> To: Nuke user discussion <[email protected]> 
>>>>> Sent: Saturday, 19 November 2011, 10:19
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Nuke-users] ??? redguard1.glow ???
>>>>> 
>>>>> Never seen it so I suspect it's not part of Nuke,
>>>>> but now I've said that....
>>>>>  
>>>>> Howard
>>>>> 
>>>>> From: Dan Walker <[email protected]>
>>>>> To: Nuke user discussion <[email protected]> 
>>>>> Sent: Saturday, 19 November 2011, 4:47
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Nuke-users] ??? redguard1.glow ???
>>>>> 
>>>>> I've heard that this could have come from DD. If someone is reusing a 
>>>>> config/resource file home/.nuke and it's coming from another facility, 
>>>>> there is the possibility of contamination.
>>>>> On Nov 18, 2011 7:56 PM, "Sam Cole" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> Could be totally off-base, but I recall that it's a glow gizmo/group
>>>>> from Tron that people have kept using.
>>>>> 
>>>>> ./sam
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