From the course: Compositing a Sci-Fi Force Field in NUKE

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Positioning the emitters

Positioning the emitters - Nuke Tutorial

From the course: Compositing a Sci-Fi Force Field in NUKE

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Positioning the emitters

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- We've got the emitter beams and the force field animation laid in and we built one of our wall emitters. So now, we're gonna copy and position all eight wall emitters. We'll start by adding a Constant color node, here. This of course is gonna be the same size as our shot. And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna place all eight of them on this black field. I'll hook the viewer up there. I'm gonna place all eight of them on here and then do a merge plus on top of the finished picture. So I'll have a full plate of just wall emitters. So let's see how we're gonna do that. We'll start by selecting the ColorLookup and add a Transform node. Let's push in a little bit here. And let's call this Transform, let's rename it right now, pos_1. And then we'll get a Merge node. And we're going to position this one over the background plate. Now my wall emitter animation has an alpha channel which I don't wanna have when I do the plus over the background. So I need to kill my alpha channel. So let's…

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