From the course: Compositing an Alien Portal in NUKE

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Lining up the pillar card

Lining up the pillar card - Nuke Tutorial

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Lining up the pillar card

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- Now that we have a nice dense point cloud of our pillars, we can use it to line up a card. The idea is I'm going to lay a card right here at three space and then attach rotos to it, which will be masks for the pillar lighting. So let's move over to the area we'll be working, right over here, push in. Okay, I'm ready to add a card. So we'll go over here to the 3D tab, geometry, card, and the card is oriented incorrectly for what I want to do. So I'm going to set the orientation for "YZ", okay and then we can just take the old X axis and move it back. Putting it right in this general area here. Okay, I want to position it so it's just penetrating some of the points, that means it's in the general vicinity of my pillars, in depth. Now we can make it a little smaller. So we'll come down here to uniform scale, bring the scale down, I'm just roughing it in, and now we'll see it in 2D. What I want to do is take this card and attach a reference grid, so let's go to the draw tab, get a grid,…

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