Changing Shake 4.1 Node Default Values

Compositing
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Hi
I want to change default node settings in shake 4.1 and have followed the procedure in the manual P381 however I cannot get it to work - regardless of where I put my .h file in
the NR_INCLUDE path.

It works when I edit the nreal.h / nrui.h files, but I only want these changes to happen with certain other job type environment variables set. Has anyone managed to get this to work successfully? Have tried in both OSX and Linux but no luck - other than editing the 'master' nreal files, which is'nt really an option in this case.

Any ideas welcome,

regards

S

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pretty much if you want to have your own custom settings for a node you can just macro each individual node with your own custom default values. some of which are much harder to macro than others.

can you be a little more specific as to what you are trying to do? i am not quite understanding the issue

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Hi,

Thanks for your reply. Creating custom settings by creating macros is'nt really an option - It's not very elegant having duplicates of existing plug-ins. I want to change default behaviour for a few nodes but I want this to be done at startup. The docs allude to a method on page 381 by edting the function of a node via nuiToolBoxItem("blah", blah (0,1)); and saving this as a .h file. Having searched for other posts (here and other forums) it doesn't seem as though anyone got this working other than editing the source nreal.h and nrui.h files, just wanted to find out if anyone did manage to get this to work.

Thanks

S