Re: [Nuke-users] Integrating fire/flames into comps.

2012-08-23 Thread Simon Blackledge
Just make sure you add contact lighting where it would light the area around it. s On 23 Aug 2012, at 05:49, Darren wrote: Does anyone have any tips integrating fire into comps? Have CG background which i need to add 2d flames into. I know it's a lot more work than just adding flames over

Re: [Nuke-users] gizmo star field

2012-08-23 Thread Howard Jones
From memory, I use a constant into a dither, desaturated a bit, then use several noise nodes to matte out the dots. Also I've taken actual star field photos blurred and keyed, to gamma up sections of the above, which can get around the lack of resolution in the star plate. Howard On 23

Re: [Nuke-users] gizmo star field

2012-08-23 Thread Ron Ganbar
Shake had a random generator with a density slider that made this kind of thing easy. I used it lots. Any idea what kind of thing was used to create that? Ron Ganbar email: ron...@gmail.com tel: +44 (0)7968 007 309 [UK] +972 (0)54 255 9765 [Israel] url: http://ronganbar.wordpress.com/ On

Re: [Nuke-users] Houdini vector pass in Nuke

2012-08-23 Thread Neil Scholes
Like a motion vectors pass? - ive been playing and know exactly how to get that one working. Neil Scholes +44(0) 7977 456 197 www.uvfilms.co.uk On 23 Aug 2012, at 01:47, Jimbo55 wrote: Hey Guys Does anybody know how to make a vector pass from Houdini work inside of Nuke? I have a

Re: [Nuke-users] switch node selections in a gizmo help

2012-08-23 Thread dennis
Thank you Frank for the help. I see the expression arrows change on the switch node, but I don't see the switch node it's self move from 0 to 3. What am I missing? thanks, dennis -Original Message- From: Frank Rueter fr...@beingfrank.info Sent: Aug 21, 2012 5:32 PM To:

Re: [Nuke-users] gizmo star field

2012-08-23 Thread Neil Scholes
Christ - why the hell are all these golden oldies always hidden! Neil Scholes +44(0) 7977 456 197 www.uvfilms.co.uk On 23 Aug 2012, at 14:47, Diogo Girondi wrote: Or simply use the hidden StarField node in Nuke with the attached txt file. Hit tab update StarField Load up the

Re: [Nuke-users] gizmo star field

2012-08-23 Thread Rich Bobo
Thanks, Diogo. I would have loved to use this for a project a few weeks ago, but didn't know about it. We had a bunch of real star plates that were shot, some time-lapse, and it always seemed like we were tweaking them to look a certain way. Building our own in some cases would have been a

Re: [Nuke-users] Re: Furnace auto rotoscoping

2012-08-23 Thread crunch fx
didn't find anywhere this node... :(.. On 8/22/12, Michael Hatton michael.hat...@gmail.com wrote: I think a better feature or option would be to read clients mind. On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Rich Bobo richb...@mac.com wrote: Mine never seemed to work very well. I think it was buggy...

Re: [Nuke-users] gizmo star field

2012-08-23 Thread chris
On 8/23/12 at 12:09 PM, ron...@gmail.com (Ron Ganbar) wrote: Shake had a random generator with a density slider that made this kind of thing easy. I used it lots. Any idea what kind of thing was used to create that? good question i miss that too... a simple way to generate a random noise plate

Re: [Nuke-users] gizmo star field

2012-08-23 Thread chris
doh, forgot to animate the density... i'm sure there is a better way, but this kinda works: set cut_paste_input [stack 0] push $cut_paste_input Expression { expr0 random((x+10)*seed+1000,(y+10)*seed+1000) * ceil((density-random((x+40)*seed+4000,(y+40)*seed+4000))) expr1

Re: [Nuke-users] switch node selections in a gizmo help

2012-08-23 Thread Frank Rueter
can you send the nodes? On 24/08/12 1:31 AM, dennis wrote: Thank you Frank for the help. I see the expression arrows change on the switch node, but I don't see the switch node it's self move from 0 to 3. What am I missing? thanks, dennis -Original Message- From: Frank Rueter

Re: [Nuke-users] Re: Furnace auto rotoscoping

2012-08-23 Thread Holger Hummel|Celluloid VFX
doesn't read client's mind but has a lot of controls to make 'em happy ;) http://www.nukepedia.com/gizmos/other/tpolishing/ Michael Hatton wrote: I think a better feature or option would be to read clients mind. On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Rich Bobo richb...@mac.com

Re: [Nuke-users] splitting paths in tcl

2012-08-23 Thread chris
hi toki, something like this should work: [join [lrange [split [file dirname [value Read1.file]] /] 0 end-4] /] chris On 8/23/12 at 1:21 AM, (Toki Wartooth) wrote: Hi.. I'm trying to split the path at a certain point, meaning that I'd like to take the path of a read node and chop it

Re: [Nuke-users] splitting paths in tcl

2012-08-23 Thread Diogo Girondi
Python should also work [python os.path.split(nuke.thisNode().knob('file').value()).__getitem__(0)] [python os.path.split(nuke.thisNode().knob('file').value()).__getitem__(1)] [python os.path.join(os.path.split(s).__getitem__(0), os.path.split(s).__getitem__(1))] cheers, diogo On Thu, Aug