(Description writen in Python for your amusement)
 

'''

Nuke for TDs: Custom Python Tools

@author: varomix

cmiVFX.com

'''

##Chapter Descriptions

def title():

    print "Nuke for TDs: Custom Python Tools n"

def Chapter00():

    ## TITLE

    print "Chapter 00: Introduction and overview of the the complete project n"

    ## CONTENT = ME JUST BABBLING :)

def Chapter01():

    ## TITLE

    print "Chapter 01: Environment Setup"

    ## CONTENT

    print "t CREATE our own nuke.py class so we can have auto-complete"

    print "t syntax highlighting and all the goods of modern IDEs"

    print "t We'll setup a Aptana to get all our code done, which is"

    print "t gonna help a lot on the development of any of your"

    print "t nuke tools. n"

    return

def Chapter02():

    ## TITLE

    print "Chapter 02: Creating a simple tool"

    ## CONTENT

    print "t We'll start by creating a simple tool, which will become"

    print "t the core of the main tool we'll be building from scratch"

    print "t We'll also explore how nuke connects nodes when we are "

    print "t creating them directly from python. n"

    return

def Chapter03(start):

    ## TITLE

    print "Chapter 03: Review of the Collect Files Tool"

    ## CONTENT

    print "t In this chapter we'll see the tool will be building in"

    print "t action and talk a little about how we will build it. n"

    fun = start * 1000

    return fun

def Chapter04():

    ## TITLE

    print "Chapter 04: Creating the Collect Files Tool"

    chapters = 18

    ## CONTENT

    if not chapters == 0:

        print "t step 0: We'll start by creating the Main GUI function, the CORE"

        print "t step 1: Create the main panel and add the title and first input field"

        print "t step 2: Finish adding the rest of the GUI input parameters"

        print "t step 3: Spliting strings and how to get the script name and addntt it to the script name field by default"

        print "t step 4: Prepare variables and the code to handle all nodesntt or just the selected nodes"

        print "t step 5: Then we need to write the main collector functionntt and pass the parrameters to the collector function"

        print "t step 6: Finish the GUI function gettting only Read Nodesntt and copy nodes to a new file .nk"

        print "t step 7: Brief explanation on nodes been just text"

        print "t step 8: def collectFiles import os and create a directoryntt for file Sources and build the new script name"

        print "t step 9: Let's do some error checking for output, selected nodes,ntt and Sources folder to see if it exists already"

        print "t step 10: Loop on every read node and extract the data will laterntt  use to copy sequences to their new location"

        ## If you made it this far, congrats!! your on your way to greatness :)

        print "t step 11: Find if read node is an image sequence or just a still image"

        print "t step 12: Get padding(# of 0s) of sequence also get start andntt  end range and the clean sequence name"

        print "t step 13: Create a directory for each sequence and jump into it,ntt  error check if the directory exists"

        print "t step 14: Start copying the files now, about time :)"

        print "t step 15: Edit .nk script to update media location, FUN!!"

        print "t step 16: Do the same for single images and finish the file"

        print "t step 17: Talk about dividing and add the Progress window to the tool n"

def Chapter05():

    ## TITLE

    print "Chapter 05: Adding the tool to the GUI"

def mainFunc():

    ## LET's RUN EVERYTHING !!!!

    title()

    Chapter00()

    Chapter01()

    Chapter02()

    Chapter03(1)

    Chapter04()

    Chapter05()

mainFunc()

## End of chapters description