I've solved it... I first tried with the BSP settings, then map
conversion, nothing worked. Then last night I was talking to a friend
that works at another studio (maya/mental ray based) and he said he
have had the same problems. He then suggested that I try and render it
with only one thread activated. Using SMP can sometimes cause these
artifacts and generate no errors.
Using only one thread helped a bit, then also switching mental ray to
use the tiling "spiral" instead if "hilbert" solved the last few
chunks that was not rendered (I didn't know the tiling could also mess
with the rendering).
So now I've successfully rendered a 16-bit Tif file and also a 16bit
SGI file with a normal map also generated.
regards
stefan andersson
On 11/4/05, Luc-Eric Rousseau <lucer(at)softimage.com> wrote:
> Try converting the files at the command-line to change the compression. For example :
>
> imgconv 16bitRender.tif fixed.tif -sequence 1 10 -compression lzw
>
> ------------------
> Luc-Eric Rousseau
> Team Leader, User Interface
> Softimage|XSI
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> > [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM]On Behalf
> > Of Thomas Helzle
> > Posted At: Friday, November 04, 2005 12:43 PM
> > Posted To: xsi
> > Conversation: 16-bit sgi or tif problems
> > Subject: Re: 16-bit sgi or tif problems
> >
> >
> > Can you open the files in Photoshop or After Effects? 16bit
> > tiffs from 4.2 worked fine with those apps, from 5 they don't.
> > I only have DFX+ so I can't use 16bit there or export it as 16 bit.
> > I call that broken ;-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Thomas Helzle
> >
> > On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:11:18 +0100, Harry BARDAK
> > <harry(at)def2shoot.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I don't see your point when you say 16 tiff are broken
> > > Because i have just rendered over 2500 x 6 frames in 2K in tiff 16.
> > >
> > > But i ve noticed in fusion that the pixel aspect is screwed
> > by default.
> > > I fixed that by entering myself the right pixel aspect.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thomas Helzle a écrit :
> > >
> > >> 16Bit Tiffs are definitely broken in 5 (and 5.01).
> > >> I currently try to render an image that was fine in 4.2, but the
> > >> output from 5 can't be opened by Photoshop (6 and CS) or standard
> > >> After Effects (5.5 and 6.5).
> > >> DFX+ can open it, but loads it 20 pixels high and very
> > >> looooooooooooong with an absurd pixel aspect instead of 3300x2460.
> > >>
> > >> The only loader I've found so far who can open that stuff
> > is SuperTiff
> > >> for After Effects:
> > >> http://www.fnordware.com/supertiff/
> > >>
> > >> Now I convert each image with AE to something readable by Photoshop
> > >> first...
> > >>
> > >> I also got weird results from OpenEXR 32bit - a red background was
> > >> suddenly black when opened with the Photoshop plugin.
> > >>
> > >> If anyone knows a working 16/32bit format in XSI 5 that works with
> > >> Photoshop I would be thankful.
> > >>
> > >> BTW. Those image formats really need an overhaul - I miss
> > Multilayer
> > >> PSD, RLA and especially RPF from Lightwave...
> > >>
> > >> Cheers,
> > >>
> > >> Thomas
> >
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