Couple of Fusion questions

Hi,

I have a couple of questions about Fusion:

1) Is there a shortcut to make any view in Fusion go full screen? I have looked in the Hotkey Manager and online, and I can't seem to find a way to do it.

2) Speaking of the Hotkey Manager, there is something that I would like to be assigned a shortcut, but I can't find it in the hotkeys. When you select a couple of nodes and right click, you can choose to align them to the grid (it's called 'Line Up to Grid'). Is there a way to assign a shortcut to this command, so I can just use it whenever I need to align any group of tools for organizational purposes. (I know I can activate the Arrange to Grid option in the Flow preferences, but I have been using this option, and it just annoys me when I am moving the nodes around. I prefer it when I can move the nodes freely. After all, this is the FLOW view .

3) In Fusion 7, there was actually a better way to align tools horizontally or vertically, but they are lost in this version. Is there anyway to get them back. I cannot remember if they were scripts or just options in Fusion.

4) Last, is there a way in Fusion to replicate the trick mentioned in this Nuke tutorial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feANAsdahRk&t

I work with lots of image planes in 3D, and I would for them to scale up or down when I am moving them on the Z Axis, so they will always fit the camera.

Thank you guys.

1) "F4" maximizes the view your mouse is currently over

3) if you used a script for that there is a high chance it can be converted for fu8, might help if you still have Fu7 around and can take a look

4)
put it image directly into a cameras "image input", now in the camera the Tab "image" should have "enable image plane" active. with the "depth" slider you can define the position of the plane in space
now the image plane always fits into the cameras Fov

3) can still be found in the right-click menu of the Flow view. It's in 'options' -> build flow horizontally/build flow vertically

Thank you for your replys guys. The F4 does the trick Michael, and the method you suggested for question number 4 works like a charm. Regarding question number 3, unfortunately I don't have Fu7 anymore, and I am not even 100% sure if it was a script or function in the program.

Thank you Sander for your suggestion, but this is not what I am actually looking for. I know about the build direction thing. What I am trying to find is a way to align two or more nodes together, not how the whole node tree flows.

I found the scripts you're looking for.
Save these in your tool script folder with a *.lua extension and see if they still work. I can't script to save my life, so this is the best I can do for you.

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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Align Tools Horizontally
--
-- tool script
--
-- This script will align the selected tools so they share the same position
-- on the Y axis as the tool that executed the script.
--
-- written by : eyeon Software (sdk@eyeonline.com)
-- written    : May. 12th, 2008

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

local flow = comp.CurrentFrame.FlowView -- get current flowview

local x, y = flow:GetPos(tool) -- get current tools position

comp:StartUndo("Align tools horizontally")

for i, t in pairs(comp:GetToolList(true)) do -- for every selected tool
   cur_x, cur_y = flow:GetPos(t) -- get tools position
   
   flow:SetPos(t, cur_x, y) -- set the new position
end

flow:Refresh()
comp:EndUndo(true)



and here's the other one

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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Align Tools Vertically
--
-- tool script
--
-- This script will align the selected tools so they share the same position
-- on the X axis as the tool that executed the script.
--
-- written by : eyeon Software (sdk@eyeonline.com)
-- written    : May. 12th, 2008

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

local flow = comp.CurrentFrame.FlowView -- get current flowview

local x, y = flow:GetPos(tool) -- get current tools position

comp:StartUndo("Align tools vertically")

for i, t in pairs(comp:GetToolList(true)) do -- for every selected tool
   cur_x, cur_y = flow:GetPos(t) -- get tools position
   
   flow:SetPos(t, x, cur_y) -- set the new position
end

flow:Refresh()
comp:EndUndo(true)



This is brilliant, Sander. They both still work.

Thank you very much