mt Time Machine (Beta)

This tool helps you collapse space-time into a doughnut so you can travel through time inside your Nuke scripts… or maybe not.

Sometimes you think you're making an improvement, and then it hits you: "Uh-oh, it was way better two versions ago and I didn’t make a backup!" Now you have to open a new instance of Nuke, wait for the pipeline to load, open the old script, find the nodes, and copy-paste them into your current one.

Well, mtTimeMachine tries to help with that. Basically, you mark a Backdrop or a set of target nodes, and the tool scans all existing versions of your current script. You pick one, and if those nodes exist, it copies and pastes them directly into your new script. without opening a new Nuke at all.

It reads the .nk file like plain text, stores the nodes in a dictionary, and then imports them. If nothing breaks, it's almost instant.

It's still in beta, and I'm continuing to improve it. It might throw a warning if you select too many nodes or use uncommon plugins, but don’t worry—it won’t break your script. At worst, some nodes might not show up, or a few connections might be off. But nothing crashes. It’s safe!

It only works in Nuke 12.0 or above.

Download it here:

mtTimeMachine.txt

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