Concepts

Short explanations of the ideas behind Oink. Each page says where it matches Nuke and where it differs.

• Channels and layers: what travels down a pipe.
• Bounding box: the area of an image that holds pixels.
• Colour and OCIO: working space, file colour spaces, the Viewer's display transform.
• Caching: why a second playback is faster, and how to clear the cache.
• Engines and the Blender bridge: the default engine needs no Blender; what the optional bridge adds.
• 3D: cameras, geometry, lights and renderers.
• AI tools and licences: the AI nodes, where the models come from, and their licences.
• Production tracker: shots, tasks, bids and a schedule in Oink Review.
• Review and editorial: Oink Review, the timeline and conform app.
• Licences and source offer: what ships under which licence.

All image processing is 32-bit float and scene-linear on the GPU. Values are never clamped in the pipeline, only at the display (and in nodes that clamp on purpose, such as Clamp).