ABCNuke ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A set of plugins to read Alembic data in Nuke. - ABCReadGeo (read geometry from an Alembic archive) - ABCAxis* (read locators/transform data from an Alembic archive) - ABCCamera* (read cameras from an Alembic archive) The code for ABCNuke is freely available at http://github.com/ivanbusquets/ABCNuke/ , and released under the New BSD License. See COPYING for more details. - Nuke® is a registered trademark of The Foundry. - Alembic is an open interchange framework by Sony Pictures Imageworks and Industrial Light & Magic *Note: At this time, only the source for ABCReadGeo is released. I need to clean up both ABCAxis and ABCCamera a bit, but hopefully they will follow soon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- REQUIREMENTS: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Linux or MacOs operating system. I haven't been able to test this for Windows, but if anyone has success compiling and using any of the ABCNuke plugins on Windows, please let me know and I'll update this document. - ABCNuke needs the following software / libraries Nuke (6.2, 6.3) - www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/nuke/ Alembic (1.0.x) - www.code.google.com/p/alembic/ CMake (2.8.0) - www.cmake.org OpenEXR (1.6.1) - www.openexr.com Required by Alembic: ilmbase (1.0.1) - www.openexr.com Boost (1.44) - www.boost.org HDF5 (1.8.7) - www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INSTALLATION: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Download ABCNuke (.zip or .tar.gz) and extract the contents into your directory of choice (SOURCE_DIR) 2) Create a build directory, for an out-of-source build. This example assumes the build directory (BUILD_DIR) is located parallel to the SOURCE_DIR. But this is not required. $ cd SOURCE_DIR $ mkdir BUILD_DIR 3) Change to the build directory. $ cd BUILD_DIR 4) Now run cmake on the SOURCE_DIR. In order for cmake to find the path to the Nuke version you want to compile the plugins for, you'll need to pass a NUKE_DIR variable to the cmake command. Example: (assuming you're currently in BUILD_DIR, and SOURCE_DIR is one directory above) $ cmake -D NUKE_DIR=/usr/local/Nuke6.3v4 .. Alternatively, you can also set a NUKE_NDK_DIR environment variable before running cmake. Example: $ setenv NUKE_NDK_DIR /usr/local/Nuke6.3v4 $ cmake .. If the cmake script can't find the Alembic libraries, you can also pass the Alembic root directory explicitly: $ cmake -D NUKE_DIR=/usr/local/Nuke6.3v4 -D ALEMBIC_DIR=/usr/local/alembic-1.0.3 .. 5) Run the make command. There's not a lot to compile, so it should go pretty fast :) $ make 6) Once done, you can run: $ make install Which will put a copy of the compiled plugin(s) in BUILD_DIR/plugins/x.x/ , where x.x is the API-compatible version of Nuke (i.e. 6.3). 7) Copy the compiled plugin to the relevant location within NUKE_PATH -- Ivan Busquets (ivanbusquets at gmail dot com)