Generates an adjustable and animatable sun and sky background plate. Inspired by the physical sky implementation in 3D renders like Arnold
jm_almostPhysicalSunAndSky
Updated: 9 March 2024
Author: johs2
Compatible Nuke versions: 12.2 or later
Compatibility: Linux, Mac, Windows
The gizmo outputs a sun and sky background plate or each element isolated. It can also output a spherical 3D scene or a 3D light
There are built in controls for sun and sky control, simple color correcting and perspective adjustments for quick and easy use.
There are optional inputs for an external camera and an external sun (or moon).
It is unfortunately not an implementation of the Hosek-Wilkie sky radiance model as it is beyond skills to implement that, but it is made to look like the physical sky implementation in Arnold using ACES.
INSTALLATION:
The gizmo requires some footage (included in the .zip). It can either be pointed to directly in the gizmo UI, or the flowing lines can be added to init.py (remember to replace ......your.path....... with the correct path)
gizmoSupport = '/......your.path......./Gizmos/gizmoSupport'
nuke.pluginAddPath(gizmoSupport)
Tested back to Nuke 12.2 on windows.
Updated to support Nuke 12 and earlier 3D system nodes
It seems the download is impossible to complete from nukepedia, so the gizmo and source can be downloaded from this link instead:
https://drive.proton.me/urls/CZ51AY957R#ZXqBtHCdzGgk