no, that was the reverse question, loading tiff, this is about the
tiffs that are written.
16-bit tiff output is broken in Mental Ray. Fixed build is not publically available. Use .sgi files instead, or fix the tiffs by going through the never-has-these-kinds-of-problems fxtree..
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Moodie
> This was covered 2 weeks ago...
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Halfdan Ingvarsson
>
> TIFFs are most likely to trip you up. LZW compressed TIFFs will be
> automatically embedded (there's even a warning for it)
> because mental images
> still stubbornly refuse to support it, even after the patents
> have expired.
> They got a bit testy after Pixar forced them to drop
> monte-carlo sampling
> due to their patent on it. Shake and Photoshop write out
> TIFFs with LZW
> compression on by default.
>
> Any other image format not natively supported by mental ray will get
> embedded in the file.
>
> - ½
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rui Feliciano" <ruifeliciano(at)isisds.com>
> To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 6:30 PM
> Subject: Re: 16bit tiffs
>
>
> Gene Crucean wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know how XSI encodes 16bit tiffs? Is it using LZW? If so
> > can we get an options button in the next release? Photoshop doesn't
> > seem to like xsi's tiff flavor and I'm willing to bet that they are
> > being compressed with jelly beans.
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