Share Gizmos In A Network

[marien]

Hi,
I wanted to share some gizmos over the network. I saved the Gizmo on a net drive where everyone has access to. But what do I need to do, to make the Gizmo appear in my menu and reload when it is updated on the netdrive.
I thougt I simply have to write some lines in my menu.tcl..

so I put the following in there:

if [file exists "/...." ] {
menu "GIZMOS/mygizmo" mygizmo
}

When I reopen Nuke I get GIZMOS in my menu but I can't open mygizmos. Why is this?? Do I need to set a Plugin Path somewhere? ?

Please give me some hints ... thanks

franz

[user_deleted]

you should set up a NUKE_PATH environment variable to make Nuke look into additional directories on startup.
In that new directory you can store your menu.tcl and if wantedan extra init.tcl that again can add more directories to source.
I.e.:

NUKE_PATH=
in you can create sub directories like 'gizmos', 'tcl-commands' etc. just to keep things nice and tidy. Alternatively you can just dump all files into but that's ugly.

in create a file called init.tcl that contains the a source command for each sub directory you created:
plugin_addpath /gizmos
plugin_addpath /tcl-commands
etc.

once that is set up Nuke should always source and all drectories sourced via the init.tcl.

[marien]

hi frank,
thanks alot, I got it to work with that advice! Didn't know that I can store another menu.tcl elsewhere. that's more than practicable.

[user_deleted]

yes, you can have as many as you like.
as a default source path there is the install directory and ~/.nuke (user's home dir).
for additional system wide paths you can set up the NUKE_PATH. Any of the sourced directories can contain an init.tcl to source other locations so you can go totally over board if you like .