Quick tip - Nuke gizmo input connection name

When creating a gizmo with multiple input connections, it's useful give names to the connections, so the artist will know what to connect. Here's a screenshot of a gizmo I'm creating:

Here I have two connections named "seq" and "cam". This can be achieved by renaming the input nodes in the gizmo/group from "Input1", "Input2" etc. to "Inputseq", "Inputcam". The string after the word "Input", in the node name, will be the name of the connection.

Maya + pyqt + mel

I recently discovered a way to use my melscripting knowledge, and do some experiment with pyqt designer. I know I promised a gui programming with python and designer and that will come soon too. Until that: it is possible to create a gui in designer, and do the core scripting in mel. It creates an .ui file, and in maya 2011 you can load it with the loadUI command. If you name the layouts, buttons etc. properly in designer, you can freely modify them from mel, create, attach, parent or trigger action with them. Here you can find a good tutorial for start, and here is a table, showing gui element types in designer and the corresponding type in mel. I discovered some strange things about the layout handling, and I don't know if it's a bug or not. But if you don't want to learn python quickly, but want to quickly slap a gui, it's worth a try.

New nuke gizmo - rotator

Do you need to rotate a wheel in nuke? Do you have the translation for it but it needs to rotate accordingly? Here's the solution: rotator gizmo! Premiere here, now. Put the gizmo in your menu.py. Assume you have a wheel plate in the starting position, matted with alpha. Put down the gizmo from menu, connect after the wheel. Holding down ctrl, move the center sign to the center of the wheel (the translate knob should remain 0). Then drag the dot named "outside" to anywhere on the wheel circumference. You can test the rotation now by dragging the center sign without pressing control (changing the translate knob). Currently it does proper rotation only from this starting point, but in any direction. Then put the translation animation in the translate knob and you are done. Turn on motionblur if you need.
Comments, feedbacks are welcome!
I will put this on nukepedia/creativecrash, as the others, but after a little while. So if you want to get the new gizmos/scripts I make as soon as possible, come back, here you can find them!