Plugin-ideas

[dazmanian23]

Hello nukers

I am a student at bournemouth university and currently writing nuke nodes.....
so here is my question...

is there anything you ever wanted to be in nuke but never made it? Any ideas for plugins?
Dont thing about doability just throw features at me that i could implement...

i was thinking about a obj sequence importer to be able to work with animated characters... or is there already a way of doing that...?

On the other hand there is not much documentation about writing 3D operatores. Does anybody know where to get more information?

Thanks for your creative support guys!

Rock on

[user_deleted]

i was thinking about a obj sequence importer to be able to work with animated characters... or is there already a way of doing that...?
if you have sequence of objs you can just load them like a file sequence.
however, one thing that would be great is a tool that will let you project something on to moving objs and then bake the UVs so the texture sticks to the surface across the animation.

another helpful think that we have for shake and would love to see in nuke is an extend node that will pull pixel out according to the alpha channel. not exactly sure how it works but it must be looking at the transparency of a pixel and it's neighbour pixels and calculate a vector base on that (kinda like the normal vector on a spline). It then uses that direction to pull out pixels to repeat their colour. Hm, not sure if that is a very good explanation. Anyway, this is great to use with an edge matte to do localized spill replacement, bring back motion blurred parts that got lost during the keying process and also to make a rotod fg blend into the bg better.

you should get in touch with the foundry guys, they have a dev mailing list where you canask questions on (all the DD and foundry coders are on it). support@thefoundry.co.uk

cheers,
frank

[dazmanian23]

Hey!
Thank you very much!
I am very interested in that aplha pulling thing... but i didnt really get it. But it seems to be really helpful! Can you explain it a little bit more?

EDIT: i think i got io now. So based on the brightness gradient of the image alpha generate a vector that stretches the RGB pixels outwards... what happens to the alpha should get stretchet too?!

Thanks again
Rock on

[user_deleted]

So based on the brightness gradient of the image alpha generate a vector that stretches the RGB pixels outwards
exactly. we got a gizmo here now that blurs the alpha than unpremultiplies rgb recursively to slowly stretch the edge pixels outwards. works pretty cool but I could imagine a plugin might be a little better.
the alpha should not stretch but that could be an option. In fact, I'd make it an option to output either original alpha, stretched alpha or alpha for only the new pixels. you could also put in a post blur option for only those new pixels without touching the original input.

it's also great to fix edge on fg objects pulled via luma keys of a sky and put onto something darker.

[tomc]

a fast ulitmate stiching tools would be great !
like the env-maps node in nuke 4.6....
specially, the option "mirror ball" (in env-maps node).... --->
features like change different angle in this node etc. would be great....
and a transform mode how works in this node like here....

http://www.skyskan.com/Products/DomeXF/cont.html