send to Shellrender from GUI (Windows)

[Andy]

hi all,

i don't know if something similar has been posted here but i wrote a script that lets you send the current script to shell rendering (windows only). all you have to do is change the paths accordingly and make a menu entry in your menu.py. the script saves your currently open nuke script and writes a temporary batch file, which is then executed:

import nuke
import os

def NukeShellRender():
nuke.scriptSave()
scriptPath = nuke.toNode('root')
sPath = scriptPath.name()
f=open('D:\\TEMPORARYFILES\\tmp.bat', 'w')
filecontent='set NUKE_TEMP_DIR=E:\Nuke_Cache\nset NUKE_PATH=D:\YOUR_NUKEINSTALL_DIRECTORY\Nuke5.0v2' + '\\' + 'nuke5.0.exe -x ' + sPath + '\n pause'
f.write(filecontent)
f.close()
os.startfile('D:\\TEMPORARYFILES\\tmp.bat')



please note that i am not a programmer, so use at your own risk. but i can assure you it works on our boxes. i am sure someone else has a way better workaround for this so don't kill me.

andy

[michaelmovies]

This may work on a PC, which would make it a little more portable. Only bug in it so far on a mac is its tendency to pop up a blank message the first time it completes. Also I'd rather get this working with spawnv, but so far it's locking up because of the python thread already being run in nuke.

import nuke
import os

def NukeShellRender():
    nuke.scriptSave()
    scriptPath = nuke.toNode('root').name()
    nukePath = nuke.env['ExecutablePath'] + ' -x -n -q -t -i ' + scriptPath
    os.popen(nukePath)

Also if you find it doesn't work the first time off the bat on a PC, try removing the '-t ' part of the nukePath string.