pyblish/pyblish-nuke

Pyblish for Nuke

Pyblish integration for The Foundry Nuke 8-15.

What is included?

A set of common plug-ins and functions shared across other integrations - such as getting the current working file. It also visually integrates Pyblish into the File-menu for easy access.

• Common plug-ins
• Common functionality
• File-menu shortcut

Installation

pyblish-nuke depends on pyblish-base and is available via PyPI.

$ pip install pyblish-nuke

You may also want to consider a graphical user interface, such as pyblish-qml or pyblish-lite.

Usage

To get started using pyblish-nuke, run setup() at startup of your application.

# 1. Register your favourite GUI
import pyblish.api
pyblish.api.register_gui("pyblish_lite")

# 2. Set-up Pyblish for Nuke
import pyblish_nuke
pyblish_nuke.setup()

Publishing

There are two options in the file menu to publishing with:

• Publish: Publishing with a silent non-GUI publish, which is fast but does not show the registered GUI.
• Publish...: Publishing with the registered GUI.

Persistence

It is recommended that you allow Pyblish to load upon launching Nuke. For this, you have two options.

1. Add the above snippet to your .nuke/menu.py in your home directory.
2. Add the pyblish_nuke/nuke_path directory to your NUKE_PATH environment variable

As you will find, this directory contains a menu.py with the same command. Nuke will run this upon startup, along with any other menu.py available.

Documentation

• Under the hood
• Manually show GUI
• No menu-item
• Teardown pyblish-nuke
• No GUI
• Environment Variables

Under the hood

The setup() command will:

1. Register Nuke related "hosts", allowing plug-ins to be filtered accordingly.
2. Register a minimal set of plug-ins that are common across all integrations.

Manually show GUI

The menu-button is set to run show(), which you may also manually call yourself, such as from a shelf-button.

import pyblish_nuke
pyblish_nuke.show()

No menu-item

Should you not want a menu-item, pass menu=False.

import pyblish_nuke
pyblish_nuke.show(menu=False)

Dockable GUI

Should you want to dock the pyblish UI, there is a convenience function to help.

import pyblish_nuke
window = pyblish_nuke.show()
pyblish_nuke.dock(window)

Teardown pyblish-nuke

To get rid of the menu, and completely remove any trace of pyblish-nuke from your Nuke session, run teardown().

import pyblish_nuke
pyblish_nuke.teardown()

This will do the opposite of setup() and clean things up for you.

No GUI

In the event that no GUI is registered upon running setup(), the button will provide the user with this information on how they can get up and running on their own.

Environment Variables

You can customize the integration with these environment variables:

Environment Variable	Description	Examples
PYBLISH_HOTKEY	Hotkey for executing File > Publish. The hotkey is not case-sensitive. You can read more about it here.	ctrl+p, Ctrl+Alt+P, CTRL+SHIFT+P