🧩 Introduction

PrettyNuke is a Theme Manager for Nuke that allows users to create and share UI themes across different Nuke versions.

📦 Built-in Themes

PrettyNuke comes with 10 ready-to-use themes, all inspired by popular UI themes and carefully set knob by knob.

Cyberpunk

Diablo

Dracula

Forest

Monokai Machine

Nightwish

Nord Polar Night

PrettyNuke

Solarized

Starcraft

🎨 Custom Themes

You can create custom themes by opening the Custom Colors section and changing the color knobs.

Alternatively, if you want full control over all UI colors, you can update each knob color manually and then export your theme.

• Preferences -> Appearance | Node Colors | Node Graph | Viewer Handles

🪄 Drag-and-Drop

You can drag and drop the .nk files into Nuke without needing to install PrettyNuke, this will set all color knobs from the selected theme (even for Nuke Indie).

Note

If you choose this approach, don't forget to open the Preferences panel and hit OK to register the color changes into the preferences file.

☢️ Nuke and Python Compatibility

• PrettyNuke was developed and tested in Nuke 12.1v5 and Nuke 17.0v3 (written in Python 2 and Python 3), but it's designed to work across all Nuke versions.
• It works for commercial and non-commercial versions (except Indie due to the Python limitation).

📊 Performance

PrettyNuke does not use any kind of callbacks or expressions under the hood. It's designed to be fast and lightweight, without triggering extra code.

📥 Download & Install

• Download the latest release of PrettyNuke:

👉 Download PrettyNuke

• Extract the PrettyNuke folder and place it inside your .nuke directory (usually located at C:/Users/%USERNAME%/.nuke).

• Open (or create) the init.py file inside .nuke and add the following line:

nuke.pluginAddPath('./PrettyNuke')

• Launch Nuke and go to Preferences → PrettyNuke (or press Shift + S) to open the Preferences panel.

Enjoy!

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