From the course: Nuke Essential Training (2014)

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The Look feature

The Look feature - Nuke Tutorial

From the course: Nuke Essential Training (2014)

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The Look feature

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- The TransformGeo Node has had a Look feature for years. In Nuke 9, the same Look feature has been added to the Axis, Light, and Camera nodes. You can see they all now have a Look input right here. So these three nodes can look at other objects and also they are the only objects that they can look at. Let me show you. I'll open up this Axis, Light, and Camera out here. These are my targets. I'll open up this Camera node and I'm going to tell it to look at the Axis, or the Light, or the Camera. The new Light node can also look at a target, so I'll disconnect the Camera node, and clear him out. I'll close him in the property panel, open up this Light node, which has been set to be a directional light, and you can see it's pointed straight down the Z axis, but if I take its Look input and hook it to the axis, it'll snap over there, or to the other light, or to the camera. Now, it's important to know that only the new Light node has the Look input. The old Point, Direct Light, and…

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