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PointCloudGenerator: Creating dense point clouds

PointCloudGenerator: Creating dense point clouds - Nuke Tutorial

From the course: Nuke New Features Consolidated

PointCloudGenerator: Creating dense point clouds

- [Instructor] The PointCloudGenerator has been rewritten to calculate cleaner more accurate point clouds. The word flow has been changed, so that you analyze a shot to set keyframes, calculating the accuracy for each keyframe. You can then select the most accurate frames to create a point cloud. See how it works. Let's go get a point cloud node. 3D Pop Up, Geometry, PointCloudGenerator. We hook the source import to our clip, and by the way, this clip is in your Tutorial Assets. Also, it has a built in Ignore Mask, so we're going to need that. In the PointCloudGenerator node we need to set the Ignore Mask to look at the Source Alpha channel. Okay. Don't forget that. Next, we need a camera input. Attract Camera. We'll just go get 3D Camera...hook that up. You'll find Attract Camera in the Tutorial Assets. Make sure you're on the File tab and enable Read From File, then we'll go load our Attract Camera data. Open up a folder, go to the Tutorial Assets. Here's our PointCloudGenerator tif…

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