Yes - I've used that as well, the only problem is it becomes less clear when
you need to go up several directories for example,
which is why I use this method (for proxy generation in this case).
But as you say it will not evaluate in the file path (though does show you
correctly in the browser section).
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, 20:28
>Subject: Re: [Nuke-users] Write node - TCL directory navigation question
>
>
>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
>>>>>>
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