imageCropDivide

imageCropDivide

Divide an image into multiple crops so it can be recombined later. This has some usefulness in the context of some nuke versions ...

requires

• Nuke or Nuke Non-Commercial
• Nuke with Python >= 2.7
• All OS should be supported but was only tested on Windows.

The combine feature requires oiiotool or Pillow to be availble on the system. See below for more information.

Usage

• Copy/paste the content of ImageCropDivide.nk in Nuke.

• Set the desired max dimensions and your source size if the defaults are not expected.
• Export Directory: Set where the directory where the crops must be exported
• Combined File Name: if you use the combine feature, name without the extension, of the combined file.
• Click the Copy ... button
• press ctrl+v to paste the node setup in the nodegraph.
• connect the top write node to the same node as the imageCropDivide node
• On any of the cloned Write node, modify the settings for export as desired.
• Unclone all the Write nodes (Alt + shift + K)
• Render all the Write nodes
• Once finished you have the option to combine the exported crops. See below for details.

Warning

it seems that changing the file type of cloned write node make nuke crash so you might have to unclone first and propagate changes on all write nodes :/

combining

Combining will find ALL images in the Export Directory and combine them to a single image named using Combined File Name knob value.

Warning

make sure the Export Directory doesn't contain anything else than the crop you just exported before combining.

Combining require external softwares. Different options are available and automatically detected.

Here are the option in their order of priority :

oiiotool

Recommended option. Use the oiiotool.exe CLI from OpenImageIO to combine back the crops.

You can specify the path to the oiiotool executable in 2 ways :

• environment variable OIIOTOOL
• the oiiotool path knob on the node

Tip

You can find it in the Arnold render-engine installation like C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Arnold\maya{VERSION}\bin

Or alternatively get it from here (has more plugin support)

Pillow

A python library for image processing. It work for simple case but suck for anything else (anything not 8bit).

It simply requires Pillow to be importable in the python context (from PIL import Image).

faq

Why is there a ModifyMetadata node ?

This is the only way I found for now to have a different suffix per Write node and have them cloned at start. I could remove them and set directly the suffix on each unique Write node but then it would be a pain to modify one setting on all the write nodes.

Developer

Instructions to develop the node.

ImageCropDivide.nk is the result of a build process defined in src/.

It consist of combining nk file templates (because they have variables) with python scripts to form a single .nk node.

To build the node simply execute build.py from any python 3 interpreter.

File suffixed with -template contained variable replaced during build. Variables have the syntax %VARIABLE_NAME%.

Licensing

Apache License, Version 2.0 (OpenSource)

See LICENSE.md.

Here is a quick resume :

• ✅ The licensed material and derivatives may be used for commercial purposes.
• ✅ The licensed material may be distributed.
• ✅ The licensed material may be modified.
• ✅ The licensed material may be used and modified in private.
• ✅ This license provides an express grant of patent rights from contributors.
• 📏 A copy of the license and copyright notice must be included with the licensed material.
• 📏 Changes made to the licensed material must be documented