Nuke 5.1v3 released

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Version
Nuke 5.1v3

Release Date
21 January 2009

Supported Operating Systems
• Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” (32-bit only)
• Windows XP SP2, XP64
• Linux CentOS 4.5 (32- and 64-bit)

New Features

• On Windows and Linux, you can use PyQt to write custom Qt applications or GUIs in Python and use them within Nuke. This was tracked as feature request 4961. For more information on using PyQt in Nuke, please see Using PyQt in Nuke to Write Custom GUIs in chapter 18, The Script Editor and Python, of the User Guide.
• You can use wxPython to write custom wxWidgets applications or GUIs in Python and use them within Nuke. This was tracked as feature request 5784. For more information on using wxPython in Nuke, please see Using wxPython in Nuke to Write Custom GUIs in chapter 18,
The Script Editor and Python, of the User Guide.

Improvements
• General increase in render performance on 2-, 4-, and 8-core CPU configurations, including
significant improvements to Scanline render and Gridwarp.
• When opening properties panels, Ctrl/Cmd+click now acts the same as double-click, opening
the panel in the default place (Properties Bin if it exists, otherwise floating). You now need
to Alt+Ctrl/Cmd+click to force Nuke to open a panel in a floating window when the Properties
Bin is present (BUG ID 5961).

More: Release Notes Nuke 5.1v3

Product Webpage

[nathan]

And hitting a number key without a node selected still doesn't create a Viewer

[ragecgi]

Hmmm, I looked at the release notes, as well as the main features page on the Foundry www site, and correct me if I'm wrong, but does Nuke have a particle system yet?

[Matt P]

Hmmm, I looked at the release notes, as well as the main features page on the Foundry www site, and correct me if I'm wrong, but does Nuke have a particle system yet?

Not in 5.1v2, so if there's nothing about it in the release list then no. Not yet. I think when it does it'll be focused on as one of the main new additions.

-Matt

[ragecgi]

Sweet, thanks!
Practicing my channel work till then

[mdc]

General increase in render performance on 2-, 4-, and 8-core CPU configurations, including
significant improvements to Scanline render and Gridwarp.

nice

[jaimebures]

Has anyone tried to use the wxPython new feature to create custom GUIs??

I had installed python and wxpython as told in the User Guide. Then I created a hello world app, and I saved it in a folder that is in the sys.path variable, but it fails when I try to run it.

The Hello World app:

import wx

class Application(wx.Frame):
    def __init__(self, parent):
        wx.Frame.__init__(self, parent, -1, 'My GUI', size=(300, 200))
        panel = wx.Panel(self)
        sizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
        panel.SetSizer(sizer)
        txt = wx.StaticText(panel, -1, 'Hello World!')
        sizer.Add(txt, 0, wx.TOP|wx.LEFT, 20)
        self.Centre()
        self.Show(True)

app = wx.App(0)
Application(None)
app.MainLoop()

and then in the script editor:

from nukescripts import utils, pyWxAppUtils 
MyApp = "help.py"
pyWxApp = pyWxAppUtils.pyWxAppHelper(MyApp, start = True)

... but Nuke does nothing.

I don't know what is going wrong.

[doodle]

And hitting a number key without a node selected still doesn't create a Viewer

Surely you would have to go through the motions of selecting a node at some point to view something? Why the need for a blank viewer?

(asked out of curiosity )

[nathan]

Surely you would have to go through the motions of selecting a node at some point to view something? Why the need for a blank viewer?

(asked out of curiosity )

Every version predating 5.1 would create a Viewer node if no selection existed. There are plenty of reasons why you would want to create a Viewer node without the need to look at something. The popup box that displays when you hit a number key without anything selected is irritating.

This issue arose because they changed menu.py to use nuke.selectedNode() when creating a Viewer node. Sure its something I or anyone else can change but thats not a valid excuse for it to exist. The question should be why this way now .

[mike beckman]

-now if they could just get that new viewer to land on the last place I clicked....

[whoisandy]

No external monitoring? Guess that rumor was false then. awww mannn

[Diogo Girondi]

And hitting a number key without a node selected still doesn't create a Viewer

ctrl+i works fine for that tho.

[alkali]

Hallelujah! Real interface extensions!