Howard, Thanks. Maybe it does render to the correct place when actually processing a render. I was only looking at what it evaluated to and it was just showing me the "/../" in the path and not the actual evaluated path - where it was going to go. Nathan's suggestion of adding another enclosing dirname did the trick for what I needed:
[file dirname [file dirname [value root.name]]] Thanks for the help! Rich On Apr 26, 2012, at 1:13 PM, Howard Jones wrote: > You must be missing something or I'm misunderstanding what you want > > [file dirname [value root.name]]/../foo/bar.%04d.exr > > will render up one directory from the script -> then into 'foo' with img seq' > bar' which is what I understand you want to do > at least it does here. > > Howard > > From: Rich Bobo <richb...@mac.com> > To: Howard Jones <mrhowardjo...@yahoo.com>; Nuke user discussion > <nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk> > Sent: Thursday, 26 April 2012, 14:38 > Subject: Re: [Nuke-users] Write node - TCL directory navigation question > > Howard, > > Hmm... That just seems to append /../ to the path and doesn't actually > perform the change directory command... Unless I'm missing something. > > Thanks, > Rich > > > On Apr 26, 2012, at 9:14 AM, Howard Jones wrote: > >> [file dirname [value root.name]]/../ >> to be more precise >> >> Howard >> >> From: Howard Jones <mrhowardjo...@yahoo.com> >> To: Nuke user discussion <nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk> >> Sent: Thursday, 26 April 2012, 14:11 >> Subject: Re: [Nuke-users] Write node - TCL directory navigation question >> >> [file dirname [value root.name]]/../ [file tail [value root.name]] >> should do it I think >> >> Howard >> >> From: Rich Bobo <richb...@mac.com> >> To: Nuke-Users Mailing List <nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk> >> Sent: Thursday, 26 April 2012, 13:57 >> Subject: [Nuke-users] Write node - TCL directory navigation question >> >> Hi, >> >> Does anyone know how to indicate a relative directory change in TCL? In a >> Write node, I'd like to designate the directory to write files to that is >> parallel to the one the script is in. I'm using this typical form to get the >> current script directory: >> >> [file dirname [file tail [value root.name]]] >> >> Then, I'd like to do the equivalent of 'cd ../different_dir'. So, I'd like >> to have a (hopefully short) chunk of code that would a) grab the script's >> current directory, b) navigate up one directory and c) indicate the parallel >> directory to write the files to. Should be easy - I just don't know if it's >> possible with TCL or if I have to combine some Python in there... >> >> Thanks for any help! >> >> Rich >> >> >> Rich Bobo >> Senior VFX Compositor >> >> Mobile: (248) 840-2665 >> Web: http://richbobo.com/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Nuke-users mailing list >> Nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk, http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Nuke-users mailing list >> Nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk, http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Nuke-users mailing list >> Nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk, http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-users mailing list > Nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk, http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users
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