Nuke Examples

Initializing Kiko

from kiko import initialize
initialize()

Export/Import a kb file in Nuke

import tempfile
import nuke
from kiko.apps.nuke import manager
from kiko.constants import KB_FILE_EXTENSION

man = manager.NukeKikoManager()
_, kb_file = tempfile.mkstemp(suffix=KB_FILE_EXTENSION)

# this will export the selected objects
node = nuke.toNode("Axis1")
node.setSelected(True)
man.export_to_file(kb_file )

# import the kb file trying to find the objects with the same name as the ones originally exported
man.import_from_file(kb_file, ignore_item_chunks=True)

Export/Import a kb file from Nuke and apply it to a different object

import tempfile
import nuke
from kiko.apps.nuke import manager
from kiko.constants import KB_FILE_EXTENSION

man = manager.NukeKikoManager()
_, kb_file = tempfile.mkstemp(suffix=KB_FILE_EXTENSION)

# this will export the selected objects
node1 = nuke.toNode("Axis1")
node1.setSelected(True)
man.export_to_file(kb_file)

# import the kb file onto locator2 mapping the original name "Axis1" to "Axis2"
node2 = nuke.createNode('Axis')
obj_mapping = {node1.name(): node2.name()}

man.import_from_file(kb_file, objects=[node2.name()], obj_mapping=obj_mapping, ignore_item_chunks=True)