Shake to Nuke transition guide

[beaker]

nope, Nuke only has the clones, not expression linked nodes.

[Gravy]

That's not true. If he's trying to do what I think.

Ctrl+drag from the parent properties animation menu (The squigly one, on the end) to the destination properties animation menu.
This creates an expression link. The parameter will turn a pale blue. And, you'll get a little green E on the node and a green line to show they're linked.

You can then hit = to see the expression. Here's an example from a grade node:
parent.Grade2.blackpoint.main

See page 339 on the manual if you're having problems following my explanation.

Also on page 719 there is loads of linking expressions.

Though no you can't create a node automatically expression linked.

[beaker]

yea, of course you can do it manually one value at a time. He want's like shake where it makes a node copy and auto expression links every knob with one shotcut key which Nuke does not do.

You could make a python or tcl script which could do this.

[instinct-vfx]

Make sure you leave out DAG position when auto-iterating :P

[saloonstudios]

What's the Nuke equivalent to a shake expression like "noise(time/2)*5"

Edit:
A little more digging through the Nuke pop-up tips and I found it: "noise(frame,.2)+2"
This works, but I don't understand how it works. Help?

I guess more specifically, how do I smooth out the noise function in nuke? In shake it's the time/2 that does it, but I can't figure out how to do this in nuke.

[Charles Angus]

nope, Nuke only has the clones, not expression linked nodes.

What a glaring oversight.

[beaker]

Jesse made us a nice shake clone python script:
http://www.nukepedia.com/gizmos/pyth...h/nshakeclone/

[Charles Angus]

Thanks, beaker, I'll check that out.