I have used roto in the past to work on data channels such as motion vectors, in which case negative values are quite important.

It's more of an educational problem than a software feature problem I think, but I guess a clamp option might be a reasonable thing to request.





On 19/04/14 07:01, Nathan Rusch wrote:
Keep in mind that those same blending modes apply to paint strokes as well, where there may actually be a reason to use straight subtraction.
 
-Nathan

 
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Nuke-users] from/minus in roto node
 
Hi John
 
To give you a non answer.  Fortunately or unfortunately with all our tools we give you enough rope to hang yourself with.  None of our tools hide anything from the user and do the same math in the roto node that the merge node.  As you mentioned though we should probably have something like a mask/stencil and also something like a clamp black/white option in the roto node.
 
I would email support and have them add a feature request for this.  Bring up to them why a from/minus is not good and why a mask/stencil is better.
 
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On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 8:38 AM, John Mangia <j...@johnmangia.com> wrote:
Wondering if one of the Foundry folks might be able to answer why there is a from/minus layer mode in the roto node when it ends up creating negative values (something you never want in an alpha).  It's been like this forever and I'd rather have mask/stencil modes available.  Coming from Shake I've always done my in/out roto in separate nodes but I was noticing some folks who are learning nuke using the internal roto modes and being unaware of the negative value problem.  Thanks.

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