Ok, so this one was just to see if I could make a fuse that was faster than the tool it was replacing, in this case Bol.
It scales better than Bol does, so on small images, they run at about the same speed, but on really large images, the fuse runs several times faster.
It’s not all about speed, though. Having a tool called “Invert” that inverts just makes sense to me. What I loved about Shake was that the tools did so little; each was a little atomic thingy, like IAdd, SetAlpha, IMax, etc. It made it very easy to “read” a comp just by looking at the flow. With Fusion, I just see ChannelBool…, ChannelBool…, ChannelBool…, etc. Who can read that?
Duiker Research must have had a similar thing in mind when they made their drUtilSuite for Fusion.
September 15th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Build 470+ lets you set the Gain on a BC < 0, so you can make an invert out of a single BC.
September 22nd, 2009 at 4:33 pm
I’ve update this fuse to support ROIDS and an option to ignore the canvas color.
December 3rd, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Cheers, thanks for this. I really have to press the boss to upgrade to Fusion 6. As a long time Shake user, so much of Fusion’s interface and tools are completely non-transparent and found nested deep within tabs and rollouts.