[Gringo]

TIPS & TUTORIALS

• Warp Pixels Around Alfa - different ways to expand edges.
  
• Project And Bake - Eric Westphal aka SirEdric explains how to bake a camera projection and other types of UV-mapping.
  
• Pixel Aspect Sd Pal - explanation of pixel aspect principles in Fusion.
  
• 3d- To 2d-coordinates Conversion - How to use 3D coordinates in 2D tools.
  
• Randomizing Particle Sprites - different ways of randomizing bitmap-styled particles are suggested here.
  
• The Shake To Fusion Transition Guide - a comprehensive Shake - Fusion dictionary. Started by force_redo.
  
• Looping Particles - how to loop particles seamlessly.
  
• Trackers as Modifiers - video tutorials about effective usage of the Tracker modifier by Andy Caplau aka Durexlw.
  
• Boujou & Fusion - video tutorials about tracking with Fusion and Boujou by Andy Caplau.
  
• Windchime Flies - video tutorials about applying 3D-camera imported from Boujou to a particle system by Andy Caplau.

COMPOSITIONS

• Renderer Types: Software & Opengl - a clever way to get soft shadows to Hardware renderer by SirEdric.
  
• The Power Of "probe" - a method to find the brightest area of an image by fry.
  
• Fire - examples of using Fusion particles for creating fire effects.
  
• Position Pass - methods of recreating 3D objects using beauty and depth passes.
  
• Custom Glow And Flares From Headlights - simulates lens effects of bright light directed into camera. Created by Gringo.
  
• Light Streaks - a collection of links and compositions explaining how to simulate the Light Streaks effect which is often made by means of Trapcode Particular.
  
• A Way To Make Waves, Power Of Curves - these two topics show the versatility of the ColorCurves tool which can be used not only for color correction.
  
• Filtering Fcurves, Tracking Data - an unusual method of smoothing trajectories invented by ChadCapeland. Also, a link and description for SavitzkyGolaySmoothingPointFilter.Fuse
  
• Fake Global Illumination & Occlusion - a nice way to create a GI effect. Started by Pinionist.
  
• Fake Chromatic Aberration - different methods of creating a realistic Chromatic Aberration effect.

MACROS

• Gaussuan Blur In An Xy Fashion - a macro to expand objects' edges. By Kristof
  
• A New Macro To Find Objects' Edges - useful to improve edges after keying or for creative purposes. By Gringo
  
• Black Point / White Point Macro - lets you define black and white point by picking colors from a reference picture. By Gringo
  
• Quick Defocus For Particles - makes a very quick DOF effect for small particles like sparkles or rain. By Gringo
  
• Animation Ghosting In 3D - shows animated objects' trajectories in 3D Space. By Gringo
  
• Cgsreflect Macros Tool - creates a reflection in a flat horizontal surface with adjustable glossiness. By JUNE
  
• Is There A Way To Make a simple tube in DF6? - a macro which creates a Tube3D geometry primitive. By Gringo
  
• Uv Positioner Macro - works like the conventional Texture tool, but supports Alpha and different tiling options. By Gringo
  
• Advanced Camera Shake Macro - creates more natural effect than the standard tool and gives you all the controls needed to avoid black edges. By Gringo
  
• Checker Soft Macro - a checker texture creator with many parameters by Gringo
  
• Color Fill Macro - fills the image with a custom flat color using the Alpha channel as a mask by default. Created by Gringo
  
• Tape Measure for Fusion - outputs distance between two points in pixels and in generic Fusion units. Created by Gringo
  
• Hue Color Curves Macro - lets you adjust Hue, Lightness and Saturation based on the source image hue. Created by Attila Sziklai
  
• 2d Sss Macro, for faking sub surface in 2d - a macro by protean which simulates the SSS effect using a depth map.
  
• Color Aberration Macro - a macro for simulating color aberration effect by robocop.
  
• Color Bars Generator - generates NTSC and PAL color bars. Created by Gringo.
  
• Camera Motion Compensation For 2d Particles - compensates camera pan and tilt. Used for particles emitted from a bitmap region taken from an object in the frame. Especially useful when particles are pre-motion blurred (sprites contain motion blur and MB in pRender isn't used). Created by Gringo.
  
• Advanced Grid - a grid generator by Gringo. The grid pattern can be defined by a gradient. Can also generate some other patterns like lines or dots.
  
• New Directional Blur Macro - calculates its power and direction from a motion path. By Gringo.
  
• How To Blend Between 2 Paths? - two macros by Gringo which blend a point's position between multiple paths.
  
• Refraction Macro - a macro by Gringo which uses height map to apply refraction-like distortions. Some simple expressions tips.
  
• Depth Defocus Macro For Fusion 5.3 - creates a DOF effect based on a depth map. The author is Gringo. The topic contains also two approaches to expand edges of objects (primarily for Z Channel extension).
  
• Macro For Correct Defocus - a defocus tool with the boke effect. By Gringo.
  
• Macro To Automate Dailies Creation - creates a slate and letterbox with various textual information. By Gringo.
  
• 3d Cam Data To 2d Space - the topic contains some solutions for converting 3D to 2D coordinates.
  
• Color Correction - several methods of selective color correction by Shaily, SecondMan and Gringo

SCRIPTS

• Generate Three Bmp Masks - script by pingking which automatically generates separate Bitmap masks from a Loader's color channels.
  
• Bfsmartconnect - a magic script which connects separate nodes automatically taking into account their type and aim. Idea by Fred Osome, programming by bfloch.
  
• Abs To Relative Paths Script - converts all the paths in a composition from absolute to relative. Created by protean.
  
• Multi Channel Exr - a modification of Sven Neve's script for splitting EXR channels by isotron with some improvements and bugfixes.
  
• Maya 2009 Multi-Pass Loader Script - a new comprehensive solution for loading and combining multiple passes by thorsten.
  
• Suggestion: Flat Filtered Command List - major improvements for the Add Tool.eyeonscript by bfloch and Daniel Koch.
  
• "dump All Inputs" Script - lists all the tool's inputs and outputs, including hidden ones. Useful for creating macros and simple expressions. Made by Fry.
  
• Wish - Search Engine - advanced search scripts by Tilt and pingking which allow to select or pass through multiple nodes according to tool type, name and comments info.
  
• A Kind Of Precomp/Reference Approach - a pack of scripts by pingking which allows to insert external compositions as parts of the flow.
  
• "track One Frame" Script - extremely useful for complicated tracking cases when you need to advance manually frame by frame. Created by Fry.
  
• Preview With Djv - a tool script by pingking which sends loaders or any other tools to DJV, a third-party realtime sequence player.
  
• Chan File Importer - a tool script to import and export 3D cameras and transforms between Nuke and Fusion by pingking.
  
• Baked Animations, Obj Sequence Import - frame render scripts for FBX and OBJ sequence importing by SirEdric and Sean Konrad.
  
• Incremental Save - Maya or Softimage-like approach to incremental save for Fusion by redoddity.
  
• Path Import From Svg - an SVG import tool which converts imported vectors to editable polyline masks. Written by bfloch.
  
• Display Channelbool And Merge Operation - renames CannelBooleans and Merge nodes in your comp accordingly to the operations they perform. Created by hulan.
  
• Multi Attach - a script to connect an image output to multiple tools' inputs at once by hulan.
  
• Animation Splines Retiming - allows to retime animation in selected tools according to a TimeStretcher, Twixtor or Kronos retiming. Idea by Gringo, coding by Roman Fedotov.
  
• Some Modified Scripts - improved Attach_Center_to_Path_Keep_Position, Bake_Animation and Change_Paths.
  
• Import Shake Shapes Into Fusion - script by slayerk, which lets you import masks from Mocha and other Imagineer software as polygons via Shake export.
  
• Skip Existing Frames - Script which helps to render only missing frames. Idea by Gringo, coding by Konstantin Kharitonov and Dmitry Slepichev.
  
• Parameters Sheet - the idea about an additional panel which could manipulate similar parameters of multiple nodes at once. And also, a temporary script solution written by slayerk.

PLUGINS and FUSES

• More Freebies - some view LUT shaders from redoddity.
  
• Hos Pixel Mapper Plug-in Update - a plugin by redoddity which is similar to the standard Texture tool, but more powerful and user-friendly.
  
• New Plugin: Polyline Unwrap - unwraps curved objects outlined by a polyline to a straight line. And another plugin in the same topic - KrazyKey, based on a completely new principle. Suggested by ChadCapeland. Coding by mattirwin
  
• New Fusion Plugin: [multi Plate] - useful to generate a large clean plate from a panning shot using supplied tracking data. Created by hulan.
  
• Free Fusion Plugin: Median Filter 1.0 - a temporary filter by hulan. Can be used for noise reduction and cleanup, e.g. wire removal.
  
• Tonemapping Fuse - a fuse and a plugin for HDRI tone mapping by redoddity.
  
• Multistep Blur - a fuse which helps to simulate a realistic glow for very bright objects. Idea by Gringo, coding by Roman Fedotov.
  
• Fast Relighting Plugin - lets you apply different types of light sources including point lights and spots with decay. It can even cast soft shadows! Requires a normal map and a depth map (Z). Written by makal.

This post has been edited by Gringo: 06 September 2010 - 10:06 AM