Howard - there is no tool out there that does what we are asking, afaik.
Do you know of one?

The ones deke mentioned just stack vertically or horizontally.  That's a
start but the autoplace function is way more complicated than what those
are doing.

really a shame this doesn't work, because it makes it hard on the people
who inherit rats nest scripts all day and have to sort through them.  I
love frames "scale nodes" function and you can snap to grids and things
like that, but having a working layout tool that could build vertically
with b-pipe dominance would really make a lead's life a lot easier...

shake could do it!  (oh snap!)   :)

I



On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Howard Jones <[email protected]>wrote:

> Maybe as I for one vary between left hand side and right hand side for my
> A pipe depending on how the script is constructed. So in your example I
> would vote '-1' as it limits the way I work, ie neither their solution or
> yours works for me.
>
> Or maybe no-one asked.
>
> However there are other versions available.
>
> The beauty of the way nuke has been developed is the users can create new
> interface tools that are not available and share them. It's then down to
> other uses to download them.
>
> I have never been satisfied with the way nuke handles selecting above or
> below the selected node so I rolled my own and published it in nukepedia
> recently. Simple bit of code. I find it very useful, others won't care less
> but it's there to share.
>
> I've asked for a load folder option. Never got it. Wrote my own, and it
> nearly works all the time. (at least my windoze savvy version I just fixed
> and need to publish)
>
> Once written these tools and out there, does nuke need to rewrite them?
> Only really if they can do it better I guess.
>
> But thanks to the efforts of frank and nukepedia, these resources are
> there to explore, and use. There are some brilliant tools out there (mine
> border on basic).
>
> That's a ramble but the point being (not to you but noobies and others) if
> the tool has been written and published, then explore nukepedia/ creative
> crash, and grab these tools. Some even work! Don't expect the foundry to
> rewrite them when they work. (my / diogo's bookmark tool demoed I believe
> at a foundry masterclass is afaik not included in nuke but alive and well
> on nukepedia. )
> H
>
> p.s. I know plenty of people who comp left to right. Can't stand it myself
> but it suits some. So you can't win really. Oh well.
>
>  ------------------------------
> * From: * Jason P Nguyen <[email protected]>;
> * To: * Nuke user discussion <[email protected]>;
> * Subject: * Re: [Nuke-users] Alignment Layout A over B in Nuke
> * Sent: * Wed, May 23, 2012 9:05:42 PM
>
>   Hey Deke,
>
> I did have those scripts.  They are great.  I'm just curious as why the
> foundry hasn't recognize this when everyone is obviously comping vertically
> in the 'down the tree' fashion with B as a backbone.
>
> Cheers,
>
> J
>
>
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Deke Kincaid <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> There are a few autolayout scripts on nukepedia which I use that are a
>> little more robust:
>>
>> http://www.nukepedia.com/python-scripts/nodegraph/alignnodes/
>>
>> http://www.nukepedia.com/gizmos/python-scripts/nodegraph/ym_alignnodes-node-align-tool/
>>
>> Also check out Frank's nice mirror and scale nodes and someone elses I
>> forget, called "dots".
>>
>> -deke
>>
>> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:55 AM, J Bills <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > yes, a long standing request.  would be nice to make L actually usable,
>> > right?
>> >
>> > too bad the autoplace code isn't "open sourced" - someone somewhere
>> would
>> > fix it, or maybe even a group effort would get 'er done.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Adam Hazard <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Exactly, Same feelings.
>> >>
>> >> I tend not to use layout shortcut for anythign that is connected, as it
>> >> never gives desired results in my experience.
>> >>
>> >> -Adam
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 05/22/2012 06:35 PM, Richard Bobo wrote:
>> >>
>> >> +1
>> >>
>> >> I'm still new to Nuke, but I also find myself using B as a backbone. It
>> >> makes more sense to be adding the A channel on top of B…
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Rich
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Rich Bobo
>> >> Senior VFX Compositor
>> >>
>> >> Mobile:  (248) 840-2665
>> >> Web:  http://richbobo.com/
>> >>
>> >> "The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is
>> going."
>> >> - David Starr Jordan
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On May 22, 2012, at 8:56 PM, Jason P Nguyen wrote:
>> >>
>> >> It has always puzzled me when using the alignment's shortcut "L" would
>> put
>> >> your A nodes to the top & B nodes to the left like,
>> >>         A           A
>> >>   B__| __ B__|
>> >>
>> >> The new 'breakout layers' option for psd also align the nodes that way,
>> >> but must of the artists, including me working the other way around to
>> keep
>> >> the B pipe as a backbone like,
>> >>
>> >>         B
>> >>   A__|
>> >>         B
>> >>   A__|
>> >>
>> >> So, the question is, isn't the foundry suppose to fix this so that
>> when we
>> >> hit "L" (lower case) it would align B on top & A on the left?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Just curious.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> J
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