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
  • 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 & Tooltips
  • Knob changed & linking controls
  • Dynamic creation of knobs
  • Creating custom knobs
  • Value provider (output knobs)
• Advanced
  • Introduction
  • Architecture
  • Op Hashing & Caching
• Sample Source code
• Appendix A: Setting up Projects & Compilers
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Mac OSX
  • Linux