Welcome to the NDK Developer Guide

Contents:

• Welcome
  • Introduction
  • Terminology
  • Fundamental Concepts
  • Building & Installing Plug-ins
  • Versioning
• 2D
  • 2D Architecture
  • PixelIop: Getting Started with Image Processing
  • DrawIop: Generating Images from Scratch
  • Iop: Spatial Operators
  • Planar Iop: Image Processing with 2-Dimensional Outputs
  • Image Planes
  • Working with Channels
  • Working with NukeWrapper
  • Writing Image Readers & Writers
• 3D
  • NUKE’s 3D Architecture
  • Writing a GeoOp
  • Attributes
  • SourceGeo Tutorial
  • GeoReader and GeoWriter: Supporting Custom 3D File Formats
  • Manipulating Data in 3D
• Particles
  • Writing New Behaviour Ops
• Deep
  • Basic DeepOps
  • Simple DeepPixelOp
  • Deep Reader
  • Deep Writer
  • Deep to 2D Ops
• Shared Op Functionality
  • Introduction
  • Input Handling
  • Time & Stereo Ops
  • Executable Ops
• Knobs, Control Panels and In-Viewer Controls
  • Introduction
  • Knob Types
  • Knob Flags, Ranges, and Tooltips
  • Knob Changed and Linking Controls
  • Dynamic Creation of Knobs
  • Creating Custom Knobs
  • Value Provider (Output Knobs)
• Advanced
  • Introduction
  • Architecture
  • Op Hashing & Caching
  • Memory Management
  • Curve serialisation format
  • Roto serialisation format
• Appendix A: Setting up Projects & Compilers
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Mac OS X
  • Linux
• Appendix C: Plugin compatibility with Nuke 11
  • Breaking Changes
  • Deprecated Changes
  • New Features