importing .nk roto shapes into nuke?

[robd]

can somebody please tell me how to import a .nk roto shape exported from silhouette into nuke?

thanks

rd

[Dejan]

Using the “import script” on the file menu should do it.

[Anonymous]

thanks, that does work but i was hoping to be able to have controls for the shape so it would be editable and not have to go back and forth to silhouette to make fixes. also there are also no visible key frames.

is there a way to edit the shape after its imported?

[mariaclark18]

The nodes come inside a group, to access the bezier node:

Edit > Node > Group > Expand Group

You may have to do this several times if you have the shapes inside layers on Silhouette.

[alessandro mattielli]

I had to do something very similar to what you want to do. I had to import several mask from Silhouette and group each one of them…

So I looked a bit into python and wrote a very simple script that maybe will help you:

import nuke

shapesPath = nuke.getFilename(“Choose Silhouette Shapes…”, “*.nk”, “”, “”, “”, multiple = True)
for i in shapesPath:
print (i)
currNode = nuke.nodePaste(i)
currNode.knob(‘selected’).setValue(True)
nuke.expandSelectedGroup()

All you have to do is run the script and select all the different shapes you want to import.

Hope it helps!

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