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About Nuke Assist

Nuke Assist is licensed as part of a NukeX maintenance package and is intended for use as a workstation for artists performing painting, rotoscoping, and tracking. Nuke Assist doesn’t support any NukeX-specific features apart from PlanarTracker, and has a limited subset of Nuke nodes and features available. The following nodes are supported by Nuke Assist:

Nuke Assist Nodes

Image

Checkerboard

ColorBars

ColorWheel

Constant

Read

Viewer

Draw

Bezier

Radial

Ramp

Rectangle

Roto

RotoPaint

   

NOTE:  Bezier is only available through the X menu. Press X in the Node Graph and then enter Bezier as a TCL command to add the node.

Time

FrameBlend

FrameHold

FrameRange

TimeEcho

TimeOffset

Channel

Add

Copy

ChannelMerge

Remove

Shuffle

ShuffleCopy

Color

Invert

OCIO CDLTransform

OCIO Colorspace

OCIO Display

OCIO FileTransform

OCIO LogConvert

Keyer

Keyer

Merge

AddMix

Dissolve

KeyMix

Merge

Premult

Switch

Unpremult

Transform

Crop

CornerPin

PlanarTracker

Reformat

Tracker

Transform

TransformMasked

Views

JoinViews

OneView

ShuffleView

Split and Join

Stereo Anaglyph

Stereo MixViews

Stereo ReConverge

Stereo SideBySide

Metadata

AddTimeCode

CompareMetadata

CopyMetadata

ModifyMetadata

ViewMetadata

Other

Backdrop

Dot

Group

Input

Output

PostageStamp

StickyNote

NOTE:  You cannot render output using Write nodes in Nuke Assist.

You can load projects created in Nuke and NukeX and work as normal, within the constraints of Nuke Assist. The Viewer renders the output of the node tree whether the components are supported or not. Any unsupported nodes and plug-ins in the Node Graph are outlined in red and their controls are grayed out. You cannot modify the output of unsupported nodes and plug-ins.

TIP:  For more information on node trees and node-based compositing, see Understanding the Workflow.

Using Gizmos, Groups, Precomps, Knobs, and Python

Gizmos, Group, and Precomp nodes can be loaded as normal, but if they contain any nodes that are not supported by Nuke Assist they have a red outline around the node in the Node Graph and the control panel controls are grayed out.

NOTE:  Nuke Assist allows the creation of custom knobs, but they can't be edited.

Python scripts work as usual for nodes that are supported by Nuke Assist, but any attempt to add unsupported nodes displays an error message in the Script Editor output section, or terminal (in -t mode).

For example, executing nuke.createNode('Transform') adds a Transform node to the Node Graph, but nuke.createNode('Blur') prints the following error:

# Result:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "<string>", line 1, in <module>

RuntimeError: Blur is not available in Nuke Assist