Connecting Your Unreal Engine & NukeX with UnrealReader | Nuke Tutorial

In this tutorial, we will take a look at a new feature from Nuke 13.1 called UnrealReader node. This node will allow you to open an Unreal Engine sequence inside of NukeX. We will cover how to use this Node to open your Unreal scene and composite it with VFX elements in Nuke.

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ActionVFX Assets Featured in this tutorial:
Ground Fire Volume 2
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Small Scale Smoke Plumes
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Fire Embers:
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The Foundry's Nuke 13.1
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Western Town UE4 Environment:
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00:00 Intro
00:21 Introduction to UnrealReader Node
00:48 Setting up the scene in Unreal Engine 4
02:20 Opening the scene in NukeX using UnrealReader Node
02:30 The features of UnrealReader Node
03:29 The Render Passes Tab
04:02 The Camera Tab
04:55 Preparing the Node for Compositing
06:55 Compositing the fire
07:25 Using the Position Pass to generate Point Clouds
07:58 Tips on Setting up the environment
08:26 Adjusting the 3D scene
08:50 Compositing the fire
09:20 A peek at Cryptomatte
10:30 Using the depth map to isolate the pillars
11:24 Using the Normal Map to mask out the floor
11:58 The final shot
12:30 outro


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