Howto Customise Read Colorspace And Viewer's Lut Setting

[user_deleted]

Hi

I am always working with linear files that are always ''auto-detected'' as srgb ... and i dont want to set my viewer's lut as linear at every project, neighter set every read node as linear ...

i want them to be lin as default, and i've looked in a bunch of tcl files and didn't found one with the settings i want to customise

has anyone already done it ??

what should i do to solve my problem ?

thanks

[user_deleted]

You can default all scripts, reads and writes to seperate values if you like. Create yourself a user init.tcl file if you don' already have one and add the following lines.

knob_default Root.transfer 1
knob_default Read.transfer 1
knob_default Write.transfer 1

This will default all scripts, reads and writes to linear.

You can also just edit the init.tcl file in Nukes install directory however its better to keep customizations in user files instead of messing with Nukes. This also allows the settings to be version independent and you don't have to edit each init.tcl file if you run multiple versions of Nuke.

[davef]

hi,

that works fine, it's great.
but i would like to have a personnal ini.tcl, just like i have multiples menu.tcl files.
i mean, i have a "per-version" menu.tcl, an "all-version" menu.tcl, and a "per-user" menu.tcl
the last one is stored in the home directory of the users.
i tried to make the same with the init.tcl, but it does'nt work.
do i mess something ?

thanks.

Aurelyen

[user_deleted]

You can merge your per-version and all-version menu.tcl files into a single menu.tcl file

Whenever you want something to be specific for a particular Nuke version just check which version of Nuke is loading and act accordingly.

In my init.tcl file I have it add plugin paths based on the current version of Nuke being loaded. Here is a small sample of my init.tcl file.

CODE
switch $nuke_version {
    "4.6000" {plugin_appendpath "[set env(HOME)]/.nuke/plugins/NFX/4.6"}
    "4.7100" {plugin_appendpath "[set env(HOME)]/.nuke/plugins/NFX/4.7v1"}
    "4.7200" {plugin_appendpath "[set env(HOME)]/.nuke/plugins/NFX/4.7v2"}
    "4.7300" {plugin_appendpath "[set env(HOME)]/.nuke/plugins/NFX/4.7v3"}
    "4.7400" {plugin_appendpath "[set env(HOME)]/.nuke/plugins/NFX/4.7v4"}
}

Just do the same for all your version specific commands. Heres an example menu.tcl file for adding a menu item based on the version of Nuke being loaded.

CODE
switch $nuke_version {
    "4.6000" {menu "Nuke4.6/item46" item46}
    "4.7100" {menu "Nuke4.7v1/item47v1" item47v1}
    "4.7200" {menu "Nuke4.7v2/item47v2" item47v2}
    "4.7300" {menu "Nuke4.7v3/item47v3" item47v3}
    "4.7400" {menu "Nuke4.7v4/item47v4" item47v4}
}

The problem you are probably having with custom init.tcl files is that you are not loading the other custom init.tcl files when your main init.tcl file loads. In your user init.tcl file you are going to have to load the other tcl files.

So in your user init.tcl file add something like

CODE
load user_init.tcl
load other_init.tcl

[user_deleted]

I almost forgot you can also merge all your user files into a single file as well. Just check the environment variable of the user. env(USER) will give you the user. You can also use env(HOME) to locate the users Home directory.

[davef]

thanks for your answear
i've added to my "all version" init.tcl
load u:/Nuke/init.tcl

and that works. but only if the init.tcl exists...
so i had to be more polite with my init.tcl, and i wrote it :

CODE
if ![catch {open u:/Nuke/init.tcl} r] {load u:/Nuke/init.tcl}

thanks.
Aurelyen