Installing on Windows

The installation bundle installs the entire Nuke family, including Hiero and HieroPlayer, and icons for the various components appear in your installation folder.

Note:  Some modern anti-virus software may wrongly assume that certain files in the Nuke installer are suspicious. Examples of these files include libnuke-12.0.0.so and geolib-runtime-prof.so. If you have trouble installing Nuke on your machine, try disabling your anti-virus software before installation. Don't forget to restart your anti-virus software after installation.

Nuke is available to download from our website at https://www.foundry.com/products/nuke. The download is in .exe format.

1.   Download the .exe installation file from our website.
2.   Double-click on the installation file to start the installation. Follow the on-screen instructions. By default, Nuke is installed to:

<drive letter>:\Program Files\Nuke<version number>

3.   That's it! Proceed with Launching on Windows.

Installing from the Command Line

1.   Download the correct .exe installation file from our web site at https://www.foundry.com/products/nuke
2.   To open a command prompt window, click Start, type cmd, and then click Command Prompt.
3.   Use the cd (change directory) command to move to the directory where you saved the installation file. For example, if you saved the installation file in C:\Temp, use the following command and press Return:

cd C:\Temp

4.   To install Nuke, do one of the following:

To install Nuke and display the installation dialog, type the name of the install file without the file extension and press Return:

Nuke<version>-win-x86-release-64

To install Nuke silently so that the installer does not prompt you for anything, enter /S /ACCEPT-FOUNDRY-EULA after the installation command:

Nuke<version>-win-x86-release-64 /S /ACCEPT-FOUNDRY-EULA

Note:  If you omit /ACCEPT-FOUNDRY-EULA the installer displays an error message. By using the /ACCEPT-FOUNDRY-EULA install option, you agree to the terms of the Hiero End User Licensing Agreement. To see this agreement, please refer to Foundry's End User License Agreement or run the installer in standard, non-silent mode.

By default, Nuke is installed to:

<drive letter>:\Program Files\Nuke<version number>

To install Nuke to a specified directory during silent installations, use the /D install option:

Nuke<version>-win-x86-release-64 /S /ACCEPT-FOUNDRY-EULA /D="E:\Nuke"

Tip:  You can display a list of install options using the /HELP command:
Nuke<version>-win-x86-release-64 /HELP

5.   Proceed with Launching on Windows.

Note:  For versions prior to Nuke 12, use the /silent and /dir commands instead of /S and /D. See Previous Hiero Help Versions for more information.