MORE INFORMATION
The automatically generated .nuke folder in a user's home directory is the NUKE_PATH default location, but it only makes the Nuke<>Mari Bridge available for that user. For more information about this directory, please refer to the following article:
Q100048: Nuke Directory Locations.
To instead install the files in a central location that you will point to with the NUKE_PATH environment variable, please do the following:
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Set the
NUKE_PATHenvironment variable for all users so that it points to a central location, such as a network drive. You may already have this set up for sharing other Nuke tools. -
Copy the contents of the
Media/Scripts/Nukesub-directory of the Mari install (or if you are on Windows, theBundle\Media\Scripts\Nukesub-directory) into theNUKE_PATHlocation.
NOTE: If you already have a menu.py file in the NUKE_PATH location, then you should add the contents of the menu.py from the Mari sub-directory into the existing menu.py.
NOTE: You may encounter problems if multiple copies of the scripts are installed in multiple folders inside your NUKE_PATH. Please ensure that only one copy of each script is present.
FURTHER HELP
If you are seeing any problems with getting Nuke<>Mari Bridge to work, then please create a support ticket and provide us with the information requested in this article:
Q100090: Reporting a Mari issue.
For more information on how to open a support request, please refer to this article:
Q100064: How to raise a support ticket
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SUMMARY
Normally, each user must configure the Nuke<>Mari Bridge by copying files from their local Mari installation to their local .nuke directory. The instructions to do that can be found in our documentation: Nuke<>Mari bridge Installation
However, this would be time consuming in a studio context, where many artists' machines must be set up in the same way. This article describes how to setup the Nuke<>Mari Bridge files in a network location accessible to all users, eliminating the need for configuring it on one machine at a time.
To achieve this, the Python files that enable the Nuke<>Mari Bridge just need to be placed in the users'
NUKE_PATH, which must be set to the desired network location.NOTE:
NUKE_PATHis an environment variable that points to the location where files related to Nuke customizations are stored. For more information, please refer to the following article:Q100015: How To Set Environment Variables.