Toolbox UI Script for Fusion
Management of custom tools and scripts in Fusion can begin to become difficult as the number of assets increases. Not only does finding the specific scri...
Tag: macros
Combining Normal Maps
My buddy Vito asked for some help with combining normal maps with bump maps in Fusion. He’s been using a method that’s pretty common but mathematica...
Blackmagic Fusion: Macros
In the previous chapter, we created some fairly sophisticated behavior using expressions. Setting up such systems takes some time, though, and if you build some...
Card Wipe Transition for Fusion – Developer’s Diary
The Glitch Tools macro collection I am working on is, in large part, based on a template for After Effects that we have at work. I am not sure where the templat...
The Downside to Blackmagic Fusion’s CustomTool: It’s slow
I took some time today to evaluate the efficiency of the CustomTool against a small collection of nodes to see which approach would be better for a particular m...
Some rather attractive compositing math
This morning, one of my coworkers, Dan, presented a problem: We commonly merge translucent elements such as smoke on top of themselves in order to thicken them ...
Pin Light blend mode for Blackmagic Fusion
Just a small offering this time: The pin light mode from After Effects is a conditional operator. For every pixel in each channel, if image2 > 0.5, display t...
Fractal Blocks for Blackmagic Fusion
Update: Version 2.0 of FractalBlocks is much faster, has better handling for out-of-range values, and features improved controls. Also, this tool can be found i...