Importing A Nuke Script With Python

[eruditebaboon]

Hi,
does anyone know if there's a way to import a Nuke script via python? I want to create a button that allows users to get a standard nuke graph into their scene - I know I could just wrap up my script as a gizmo, but it's likely to be modifed often by non-technical people and I don't want to have to re-gizmodofy it (i'm pretty sure that's the correct technical term) every time it's modified.

Cheers,

James

[user_deleted]

You should be able to just use this

CODE
nuke.nodePaste()

That's what the "File/Import Script..." option does through the nukescripts.import_script.py

[maddav1]

Ad this code to your menu.py file:

# templates menu start

def createTemplatesMenu (origPath, menuObject):
    tempDirs = os.listdir(origPath)
    tempDirs.sort()
    for tempDir in tempDirs:    
        tempDirPath = origPath + tempDir
        if os.path.isdir(tempDirPath):
            tmpMenu = menuObject.addMenu(tempDir)
            createTemplatesMenu ((tempDirPath + "/"), tmpMenu)
        if os.path.isfile(tempDirPath):
            if (os.path.splitext(tempDirPath)[1] == ".nk"):
                menuObject.addCommand(tempDir, "nuke.nodePaste(\"" + tempDirPath + "\")", "")

m = menubar.addMenu("&Templates")

createTemplatesMenu ("x:/nuke/templates/", m)

t = toolbar.addMenu("&Templates")

createTemplatesMenu ("x:/nuke/templates/", t)

# templates menu end

The script will scan through all subdirectories and .nk files in a given path and builds up a "Templates" menu by making submenus from subdirs and menuitems from .nk files. This way you just need to select a bunch of nodes and "Export Nodes As Script..." in nuke and save them. After restarting nuke, you can find your template comp in the Templates menu.