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@CreativeLyons CreativeLyons released this 29 Mar 20:15
v2.2.0
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Intro and Installation Video

Installation: See README — Installation in this repository for download, init.py, and offline documentation setup.

Online NST Wiki (GitHub Pages): Online_NukeSurvivalToolkit_Wiki
NST Wiki Repo: NukeSurvivalToolkit_Wiki_GIthub_Repo

[2.2.0] - 2026-03-19

Added

Tools (gizmos and Python)

2026

  • CardToTrack (AK) v9.0

2024

  • aeShadows (AE) v1.0
  • FastComplexity_Distort (X_Distort)
  • fxT_ChromaticAberration (fxT) v3.1
  • Emission (NW) v1.2
  • aeRefracTHOR (AE) v1.0
  • LightSwitch (TL)
  • LightSwitchPuppet template
  • ChromaSmear (LJ)
  • apEdgeCrush (AP)
  • MirrorDimension (TL)

2023

  • PointCloudKeyer (IS)
  • SpotLight (TL)
  • Rings of Power (TL)
  • Symmetry (TL)
  • SkyMatte

2022

  • CardToTrack (AK) updated to v8.0 with NST_cardToTrack.py
  • ID_Extractor (TL) with NST_ID_Extractor.py
  • ConstantPro (TL)
  • HexColor (NW)
  • RadialDilate (CF)

2021

  • GuidedBlur (RF)
  • iErode (PP)
  • aeRelight2D (AE)
  • iTransform_ae (AE) — later fixed onCreate code for render farm
  • ImagePlane3D_v2 (TL) v2.0
  • bm_OpticalLightwrap (renamed from bm_Lightwrap)

Other

  • LOAD_EXPRESSION_MENU configuration option in menu.py to optionally enable or disable the Expression Nodes AG submenu (default: disabled).

Changed

  • Icon assets recompressed for ~53% size reduction (~127 KB saved); no visual changes.
  • ColorGradientUi.py updated for Nuke 16+ compatibility and PySide6 migration (GradientEditor MHD).
  • Menu refactor: nk_path() and icon_path() helpers, f-strings, improved readability; no user-visible behavior change.
  • Documentation menu now uses a Documentation submenu with Wiki/Docs (Auto), Wiki (Online), Wiki (Offline), and Docs (PDF) commands. The auto command now falls back in order: online wiki -> offline local wiki -> local PDF, with reachability checks and concise missing-target guidance.
  • Documentation (offline HTML): Wiki/Docs (Auto) and Wiki (Offline) open the bundled wiki via a local http://127.0.0.1 static server (ephemeral port) so MkDocs Material search works; falls back to file:// if the server cannot start; browser launch is non-blocking (background thread). Reuses the same server when the offline root path is unchanged.
  • Added dedicated icons for documentation submenu entries (wiki_default, wiki_online, wiki_offline) and used Nuke native StickyNote for PDF.
  • README.md now includes an optional offline documentation install section that points users to release ZIP downloads and the required local path (NukeSurvivalToolkit/NST_Documentation/index.html).
  • Updated .nk templates: NST_AdvancedKeyingTemplate_Stamps.nk, NST_X_Aton_Examples.nk, deepThickness.nk.
  • New icon assets for aeRefracTHOR, aeShadows.
  • EdgeDetect, GuidedBlur: corrected icons and attribution (#62).
  • iMorph v2 AP (beta) added alongside v1 in menu.
  • CardToTrack v9 (AK): Transform menu entries CardToTrack_v9 AK, CProject2 AK, TProject2 AK now use NST_-prefixed gizmos (NST_CardToTrack2, NST_CProject2, NST_TProject2) and NST_cardToTrack_v9.py.

Updated Tools

Nuke 13 compatibility:

  • aPCard
  • AutoCropTool
  • DeepKeyMix
  • FrameFiller
  • GradMagic
  • ImagePlane3D
  • LumaGrain
  • Matrix4x4_Inverse
  • mScatterGeo
  • origami
  • PlanarProjection (also fixed XAton volumes example)
  • Reconcile3DFast
  • Relight_Simple
  • ReProject_3D
  • RotoCentroid
  • RP_Reformat
  • Sparky
  • SSMesh
  • viewer_render
  • VoronoiGradient

Other updates:

  • apeGlow (fixed overscan bug on crop knobs)
  • apChroma (internal restructure)
  • apChromaMergeNew (internal restructure)
  • apDespill: v1 deprecated, v2 promoted as canonical — NST_apDespill_v2.gizmo renamed to NST_apDespill.gizmo (#63)
  • apVignette (v0.5: added transform tab, "Apply to White Constant" option)
  • bm_CameraShake (v4.0: fewer internal nodes/expressions, curve smoothness control, cleaner UI, experimental auto-motionblur beta) (#39)
  • bm_OpticalGlow (v4.1: fixed mix slider with mask input, removed stale algorithm_code knob) (#40, #64)
  • bm_OpticalLightwrap (fixed mix slider with mask input, removed stale algorithm_code knob, default effect_only to false, renamed menu entry and icon) (#41)
  • CameraNormals (updated DummyCam to v1.3)
  • CellNoise (fixed onCreate center calculation)
  • ColorSampler (added option to export constant)
  • DeepRecolorMatte (bug fixes, ported later version)
  • DummyCam (v1.3, Nuke 13/14+ Camera3 class)
  • ExponGlow (fixed bug that deleted luma key when changing iterations)
  • Glass (added channel support and mask input)
  • InjectMatteChannel (exposed bbox knob)
  • LightWrapPro (fixed bounding box in non-final view modes)
  • MorphDissolve (added 0→1 / 1→0 options, STmap export)
  • SimpleSSS (internal cleanup)
  • SliceTool (code cleanup)
  • STmapInverse (code cleanup)
  • Suppress_RGBCMY (added mask and mix features)
  • UV_Map (fixed overscan scaling bug)
  • UV_Mapper (internal cleanup)

Removed

  • h_Qt.py — obsolete Qt compatibility shim (no longer needed after PySide6 migration).
  • NST_bm_Lightwrap.gizmo — replaced by bm_OpticalLightwrap.
  • NST_apDespill_v2.gizmo — renamed to NST_apDespill.gizmo (v2 promoted as canonical).
  • GlobalCTRL, AnamorphicLensBlur — removed from toolkit (no menu entry, not maintained).
  • Duplicate NST_ImagePlane3D_v2.gizmo — identical to v1, single copy retained.

Fixed

  • CellNoise: Blink kernel compile errors on Nuke 15+ (moved globals to #define, replaced abs() with signedness check) (#36).
  • apEdgeCrush: BlinkScript compile error on Nuke 16 — replaced global inline lerp() with #define macro (#59).
  • Windows filepath issues: use Path.as_posix() for all toolkit paths so forward slashes are used on every platform, avoiding backslash escape sequences (e.g. \n in \nk_files) that broke nuke.nodePaste() and file knobs on Windows.
  • Help documentation link on Windows: use Path.as_uri() for the documentation PDF URL so drive-letter paths open correctly in the browser.
  • Documentation online reachability check now handles environments where Python SSL certificate validation fails, preventing false fallback from online docs to PDF.
  • Offline MkDocs search was unreliable when the wiki was opened as file:// — mitigated by serving the same folder over localhost when launching from Nuke (Wiki/Docs (Auto) / Wiki (Offline)).
  • Node class check in filepathCreateNode: use tuple membership instead of chained or for file-node detection (#46).
  • Replaced bare except: clauses with specific exception handling (ImportError, RuntimeError) for ColorGradientUi, VectorTracker, and NST_cardToTrack imports (#45).
  • Menu: corrected bm_Lightwrap node name to bm_OpticalLightwrap (#61).
  • Menu: replaced broken DeepToPosition TL with Deep2VPosition MJT (#60).
  • Issue #43: NST_FolderPath is defined inside NST_helper (from __file__) instead of being assigned from menu.py, so the helper does not depend on menu.py having run first and avoids import-order NameError risk.
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