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Manual
If you are in the business of creating high-quality digital images, Nuke, a node-based compositor, is the production proven visual effects tool that brings speed, functionality and flexibility to your VFX pipeline.
Nuke is perfect for post production facilities and visual effects artists all over the world for commercial, music video, television and film directors.
This set of plug-ins was created to improve the connection between Maxwell Render and Nuke, allowing Nuke to import MXI high dynamic layered renders, and adjust the light intensity and color in a similar way to the MultiLight feature in Maxwell Render.
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It includes
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the following modules:
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- . Allows Nuke to
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- read MXI
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- files (with all the information contained in it, including independent emitters and render channels) as any other file format (EXR, PNG, etc)
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- . Furthermore, the MXI file node panel allows the user to change ISO/Shutter, Sharpness and Simulens parameters of the MXI (without modifying the MXI itself).
- MXI mixer node. Mixes all the independent
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- emitters’ information into a single image allowing independent adjustment of each emitter intensity (to produce precise color correction during the compositing process)
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- . It uses the Multilight feature of Maxwell Render.
- MXI render node
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- . Allows the user to resume the render from Nuke
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- MXI mask node
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- . Creates masks based on the object/material ID buffers
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- Color Adjustments script
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- . Allows intensity and color adjustment of each independent emitter present in the sequence, created to mimic the intensity and Color adjustment in MultiLight.
It is important to note that in order to get independent access to adjust each individual emitter, the render must be launched with the MultiLight feature on (although Color MultiLight is no longer needed). Be careful about using the color MultiLight feature, it generates a huge MXI and is not usable in Nuke. You only need the classic MultiLight.
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Constant refinement
An interesting feature in Maxwell Render is the constant refinement approach of the render, which allows the post-production process to start while the render process is still going on, working in parallel and saving an extraordinary amount of time.
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You can load your MXI render or sequence at a low level of quality (i.e at SL
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4) and start the post-production process at this moment, while the render process continues.
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Each time Nuke detects that the footage file has changed, it automatically refreshes it, showing you the latest and cleanest version available
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Installing the plug-in
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If you are a Maxwell Render license holder, then please access the Download Area through the Customer Gateway to download the plug-in. If you are not a license holder, then please download a free demo version of the plug-in at www.maxwellrender.com by filling out the application form.
Windows: Run the installer. Select the location/s where Nuke was installed.
Linux: Unpack the files. Go to the folder that corresponds to your version of Nuke. Copy the mxiReader.so, MxiMixer.so, MxiRender.so and MxiMask.so files to the Nuke plug-ins directory (Usually /usr/local/Nuke 6.1v2/plugins).
Mac OSX: Unpack the files. Copy the mxiReader.dylib, MxiMixer.dylib, MxiRender.dylib and MxiMask.dylib to the Nuke plug-ins directory (Usually /Applications/Nuke6.0v5-32/Nuke6.0v5.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins).
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Remember that you should have writing permissions and Administrator privileges to install the plug-in. If you do not have permissions, Nuke creates a directory in the user directory (Usually C:\Users\username\.nuke (Windows), /home/username/.nuke (Linux) or /Users/username/.nuke (Mac OSX)). You can install the plug-ins here. Make sure that the files are in the .nuke directory (not .nuke\plugins). |
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On Mac OSX the .nuke directory is hidden. You can open it using the following command in the terminal:
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Installing the Python ScriptsWe have included some Python script commands with the plug-ins. They add a "Maxwell Utilities" menu in Nuke including all the features provided by the Maxwell Plug-in for Nuke. WindowsLocate the Nuke user directory (usually C:\Users\username\.nuke). The installer has copied the following files here:
LinuxUnpack the installer and copy the following files to the Nuke user folder (usually /home/username/.nuke):
Max OSXUnpack the installer and copy the following files to the Nuke user folder (usually /Users/username/.nuke):
In the Nuke user directory you need to have the following files: menu.py and init.py. If either of them doesn't exist, just create it.
And the following commands to the init.py file:
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