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U.R.A. - (Universal Render Adjuster) (URA) v2.5
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U.R.A. is a panel that loads in Nuke and breaks out channels that are in multi-channel renders to allow for adjustment.
Please see the Info.html under the ./docs folder for a more detailed description of how the tool works or visit the link below: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSWkAxc4E4o1jLdx53-LHO7_MuxlQM0amnP7UsoXMmfM2N8O17OwM2e1mEkx-GsUloGBbcwzWBHm_Is/pub
The tool ships with configs for Arnold, Mantra, V-Ray and Redshift, but can be update to work with any back to beauty recipe from any render package.
Test render images are available at the link below:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1t3oUtBl9sDjlo1InfRy779P7MzdeRsgb
To install simple extract the zip and place it in a directory that nuke loads via: nuke.pluginAddPath({PATH_TO_URA})
Install instructions included for modifying pipeline specific workflows in ./docs/install_readme.txt:
- Configs
- Custom nodes
- pipeline_custom script
A huge thank you to everyone using the tool and providing the feedback that allowed v2 to be so much better than v1.
This release brings a lot more stability and accuracy to the workflow, while still feeling familiar to long time users of the toolset.
Keep that feedback coming.
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v2.5.0 - changelog
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Changes
- Updated group_merge to bypass if no changes are enabled (Huge speed imrovement for unused groups)
- Removed leftovers from ura_contact (it was not related to the viewed group anymore)
Bug fixes
- Fixed undo bug causing nuke to crash if undoing the creation of an adjust node
- Fixed expand button on adjusts to preserve expression links
- Fixed not in leftovers toggle on channel merge to work as intended
- Fixed bug causing negitive math and fireflys on certain renders
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v2.4.0 - changelog
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Changes
- Added config for 'karma' renderer in Houdini
- Added config for 'cycles' renderer in Blender
Bug fixes
- Cleared bad defaults on ura_contact node causing issue where first build had no image
- Changed callback on ura_contact for setting font to work in Nuke 13+
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v2.3.0 - changelog
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Changes
- Moved ura_contact_layer into node based method, layer was changing bbox on renders
- Added callback to disable the ura_contact node when not viewing with active viewer
- Added toggle to allow output of contact sheet and control buttons for each group to view
- Added button to create the ura_contact node
- Added toggle to panel to allow bypass of raw divides and preference to set default in panel for this setting (Applies to builds and Adjusts)
- Moved create grade button under the grade selection
- Removed refresh selection button as lists are no longer used in v2.0.0+
- Exposed version number in preferences
Bug fixes
- Updated preferences knob names for correct behavior on version update
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v2.1.1 - changelog (Nukepedia v2.2)
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- Reupload only to fix bad zip
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v2.1.0 - changelog
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Changes
- Added icon to URA menu item
Bug fixes
- Fixed expand button call fail caused by rename of channel_adjust node to group_merge
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v2.0.0 - changelog
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Changes
- Separated channel changes from group changes for more accurate and faster workflow
- Removed no longer required list operations from many place for cleaner setups
- Added ura_config node to define the breakout below, new channels are much easier to deal with now
- Removed mult_lists and changed to premult and unpremult all workflow
- Renamed 'channel_adjust' to 'group_merge' as internals changed greatly
- Created channel_shuffle node that combines group changes with channel changes
- Removed layer_contact branch from graph and added channel ura_layer_contact to group_merge node for quicker viewing
- Color map/albedo passes now use standard merge and copy instead of channel_merge node
- Updated UI and Docs to reflect newest update
Bug fixes
- Corrected grade button and rebuild adjust button bug caused by grade selection feature conflict
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v1.1.1 - changelog (NUKEPEDIA v1.2)
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Bug fixes
- removed font setting from contact sheet tool
- added grade selection to create adjust buttons (causing error message)
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v1.1.0 - changelog
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Changes
- removed math on 'negative' pixels, this was causing extreme colors when renders had negative pixels in the channels
- layer concatenation performance improvement
- added preference panel overrides in nuke preferences, this allows custom configs, nodes, or grades to be loaded without access to the main U.R.A. install location
Tweaks
- added DAG selected node function to allow builds inside of group nodes
- added refresh selection, a quality of life button to refresh all U.R.A. tools that use list selections
- added label nodes to each break out block for ease of sight
- corrected layer_contact sheet to support anamorphic renders
- added channel_colorcorrect, a more comp centric grade option
Comments
Thanks for releasing it into the wild.
-Jake
Just a quick question - is there something I'm supposed to be doing after I adjust the URA Config node in order to update the URA to grab the correct passes? For some reason the Lighting team are doing renders with unusual pass names like "RV_Reflections " or "Reflection" which aren't getting picked up by the URA...
The configs are the place to look, URA finds components that "start with" a defined token, for example.
'Reflection' being the defined key, you channel must start with the same token. You could have Reflection_dire ct and Reflection_indi rect or just simply "Reflection".
Make sure you check the case of your channel names and tokens in the config, then select the config from the URA panel.
The configs are found in the installed ura directory
/ura-v2.0.0/configs/
They are text JSON files that can be edited with a simple text editor to add the tokens needed.
Thanks for this new version !
jHowever I have an issue with the expand button.
It looks like there is a leftover from the last version that doesn't handle the "channel_adjus" t anymore. Thus it returns this issue " NameError: name 'tail' is not defined"
Thanks for the find, silly bug on my end.
I will update the package but for a quick fix if anyone needs it.
Replace the ./component_adj ust.nk node in the ./nodes folder with the one available here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mjmZDY6RCprfIznuajeVjQ-khUCPRq61
No restart required
- thanks
Great tool. Love it.
The group_merge MergeExpression s expressions from v2.5 has changed from A.red>0&&B.red>0?B.red/A.red:0 to A.red>0&&B.red>0?B.red/A.red:1 which yields weird results. Not sure if intentional or not.
Yes this change was international. The expression only operates when the image values are above 0. The old expression would clamp values below 0 to 0 and now the new expression has no change.
If you rendered image has negative pixels, the previous expression was clamping them. If you want a similar behaviour, you could either pre clamp the negatives or change the expression if your IRA repo under /nodes/ to the old group merge.
Ideally a back to beauty recipe should not have negative pixels, but this has been seen in some renders. Usually the best thing to do is clamp all before breaking out.
The other thing to check is if your breakout grades are creating negative pixels. This could also be solved with a clamp after the leftovers merge back in.
Cheers,
Phil
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