So we all love Matchboxes. And quite a few of us have written some. Quite a few of us have also written python scripts for a variety of complex workflows. This has made Flame a better tool. As I watch the Nuke eco system, there’s a wealth of 3rd party gizmos and nodes. I’m late to the Flame party …

A name from the deep dark recesses of the 30 years ago. Say hello.

feel free to vote for this old Gizmo request .

[image] AdamArcher: I think it could theoretically be possible utilising Flame groups, expressions and some kind of dummy control node that you could save in your user bin There is a matchbox that ships with flame, possibly in the examples folder called something like UI Only that can be used…

[image] AdamArcher: I think it could theoretically be possible utilising Flame groups, expressions and some kind of dummy control node that you could save in your user bin but it certainly wouldn’t be as elegant as a Nuke Gizmo. Certain things wouldn’t work though and the control node could end …

I couldn’t agree more. I recently wrote a pybox interface with comfyui, and pybox is quite hamstrung, and out of date (and very fussy). The only way to interact with it is via passing single frames back and forth, through a common network location. And even then, the inputs and outputs must all b…

Wiretap API [image] Maurypb: Having a way to read/write from the media library in python would be quite useful.

[image] ALan - Enemy of Mediocracy: Wiretap API which is so obvious and straightforward that there are a hundred examples in the wild…

Thanks, Alan. I’ve not looked into it, but it seems that it’s python 2.7, comfyui is python 3.1, so it might take 2 scripts. Could be fun though. Thanks for pointing that out, I should have looked closer.

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Flame Between Renders

cnoellert October 18, 2024, 7:21pm 13

This is really what we need in terms of gui building…

Gui building

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