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Relighting a CGI render with the normal pass

Relighting a CGI render with the normal pass - Nuke Tutorial

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Relighting a CGI render with the normal pass

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- [Narrator] The long awaited ability to do normals relighting is now here with Nuke 7 using the new Relight node. Given a normals pass, a point position pass, and the original CG camera, you can relight an RGB image. I'm using the Relight Nuke script from the Exercise File, which also contains all of the images here. Now you have to have your normals and point position passes and I have them right here. My normals pass is in the layer called norms and my point position pass is in the layer called ppos. If your normals or point position passes are in separate files, then use a ShuffleCopy node to slip them into the color image data stream. This vendor obviously has them all right there. So this is our CG render and we look at the composite. So what happened here is, the director decided to make this a day for night shot. So, bang, the CG render is no longer any good. So we're going to relight the CG render for a night lighting. We'll find the Relight node in 3D, lights, relight. The…

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