We've had an influx of mid-level
compositors sign up to the
newsletter this month. As a
result of this, I'm going
to dive into some more Python
basics & workflow
improvements that I wish I
knew early in my career!
DYNAMICALLY
ENABLE / DISABLE KNOBS WITH
KNOBCHANGED
You may have used a gizmo in the past where
toggling a checkbox enables/disables a set
of knobs, or choosing a certain value from a
Pulldown Choice will hide or show another
set of knobs. The first time I needed to add
this feature to a gizmo, I found it
difficult to find simple answers for how to
achieve it. So I
wrote a tutorial on how I do it,
which you can read
here!
CREATE
SIMPLE PYTHON SCRIPTS TO SPEED
UP YOUR WORKFLOW
Nuke is incredibly flexible and customizable
out of the box, and empowers artists to work
they way they want to work to get a shot to
final. But there's a whole other world of
untapped potential when you utilize Python
to further expand it!
In this
post, I'm going to show you an
example of how even the most simple python
script can save you time every day! Click
here to read.
$GUI
EXPRESSION
I wrote a quick
article about the $gui expression,
and how to best use it for those who might
not know. Lots of artists are already
familiar with how it works and when to use
it, but don't think about when not
to use it, or when it can be
detrimental. Click
here to read!
Additionally, Jedediah Smith created this
node to help handle $gui
expressions.
REAL-TIME
RAYTRACING WITH UNREAL ENGINE
4
NVIDIA & ILMxLAB recently teamed up to
create this video, demonstrating an amazing
advancement in real-time rendering, using
Unreal Engine 4.
If
you've created a
gizmo or python
script to solve
a common problem
or speed up your
workflow, please
reply to this
email and let me
know about it's
existence! I'd
love to help
spread the word,
to help us all
be better
compositors
together.
