Automated Terminal Nuke Renderscript

[fbrandst]

For all using Nuke on a Mac, I've done a small Apple Script to automize the process of rendering in the terminal. It is based on the automated shake render script found on fxguide, so thanks to geoffroy dantas for this.
Ok, now this is how it works:
Open up Apple Script Editor (/Applications/AppleScript/Script Editor.app) and paste in the following lines:

on open these_items
tell application "Terminal"
activate
repeat with this_item in these_items
set titre to name of (info for this_item)
set question to "enter desired time range for " & name of (info for this_item)
set range to text returned of (display dialog question default answer " 1,100")
set range to range as string
set this_item to quoted form of POSIX path of item 1 of these_items
set shakescript to "/Applications/Nuke4.6/Nuke4.6.app/Contents/MacOS/Nuke4.6 -x " & this_item & range
if (count windows) is 0 then do script ""
do script shakescript in window 1
tell window 1
set title displays shell path to false
set title displays window size to false
set title displays file name to false
set title displays device name to false
set title displays custom title to true
set custom title to titre
end tell
end repeat
end tell
end open



Finally save the script as application. Now you can simply throw your Nuke script files on the render app, and it will render out your write node.

hope this is of use...cheers

franz

[hugo_guerra]

Hi, I have try your script, works like a charm, very good job.
Thanks for sharing.

Do you know if I can use it to make Qmaster render Nuke in multiple machines?

All of best and thanks again for the script.

P.S: you should put it in FXshare since a lot a people is starting to use Nuke in MAC OSX.

[fbrandst]

I've updated the script so you can select your Write node you want to render. You can also choose to render out every WriteNode in the script. this should give you more comfort for rendering in the Terminal.

I've attached the script as a zip file this time...

[Ajax]

...I noticed this was intended for Nuke 4.6, when I try to run the script it disappears. Any suggestions?

[hugo_guerra]

Hi, just open the script in Script editor and change the path to your current version.

so where you see the 2 lines saying:

set shakescript to "/Applications/Nuke4.6/Nuke4.6.app/Contents/MacOS/Nuke4.6 -X " & fileout & " " & this_item & " " & range

Change the path there to your Nuke and save in another name and it works fine.

...I noticed this was intended for Nuke 4.6, when I try to run the script it disappears. Any suggestions?

[Ajax]

Thank you Hugo!

[whoisandy]

I love this script but I'm having a problem when rendering out a specific node. When it asks to choose a Write node (press 1 for yes) or not (press 2), it works only when I press 2.

I press 1 and it asks to "enter desired writeNode" and in the textbox it says "Name of WriteNode"... So I type something like Write1 or Write2 - which are in my script, ready to render out - but I get this error each time:
couldn't read file "Write1": no such file or directory

So what does this mean? I thought that was the name of the WriteNode but if it's not, what am I supposed to tell it? I'm confused. Thanks in advance!

[fbrandst]

Which Version of Nuke are you using ? I tested it with the latest release 5.1v2 and here it works fine. Be sure to change the code to your Application folder. If you have installed it right in the standard directory the attached file should work.

hope this helps

cheers franz

[whoisandy]

Thank you. What happened is that I have to change the one value from ... -X Write1 ... to -iX (because if not, it says feature nuke_r not available - render only license failure).

I accidentally had -ix on the press 1 line and the statement for press 2 had -iX and that's why it was working for press 2 only. I don't know much about scripting but when yours worked and mine did not, I noticed that was the only thing different. A lower case letter instead of capital...

[Dotcommer]

Hey there, using nuke 5.1v4, and this works perfectly after changing the path name of the version i'm working with.

Would it be possible to change the text that displays "(display dialog question default answer " 1,100") to 1 or 0, followed by the maximum frame range of that script that was set in the globals? That way with 12 different scripts, I don't have to write down the frame range for each once I use this script to batch render them.

EDIT::

After some use I realized that the script only renders out one nuke script, then the second one just makes the script re-render the previous one with the same file name convention and everything, replacing older frames. What am I doing wrong here?

[col_jin]

When I try to drag and drop my nuke file, all works well except that the apple script does not reconize the nuke file.
I edited the apple script for Nuke 5.2v2

[hugo_guerra]

Hi all, a little update to Franz script:

Now running Nuke 5.2v3 now and it automatically put in whatever frame range the script got.
You can still change the range to render by replacing the "first_frame, last_frame" text with whatever frame range you need.
I just find it faster to do this then alwasy having to know by heart the range of what you are render. After 10 comps it gets comfusing, lol.

Hope it work for you guys.

Hugo

[mirunn]

hello) can anybody tell me about batch render nuke scripts on mac?)

[hugo_guerra]

Use Apple QMAster. It works just like the terminal, but you can make a list of jobs.

[mirunn]

ok, i'll try) thank you)