why don't you use 16-bit SGI? It's the most compatible
format.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
[mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM]On Behalf Of Gene Crucean
Posted
At: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 8:34 PM
Posted To:
xsi
Conversation: 16bit tiffs
Subject: Re: 16bit
tiffs
Haha, HEY it showed up! I sent this yesterday and it
didn't get posted to the list at all. Unless I'm not recieving my own posts
until someone replies to one of them. It seems like that's when they pop
up.
Anyway, I called Soft today and they said it's a bug that's going
to be fixed in the next release. The workaround is what Luc-Eric said. Pipe it
through the FX Tree. Which imo sucks if you have lots of passes.
Btw,
we've been using 8bit sgi's for a while but our flame guys want to step things
up to 16 then output at 10 from flame. File format is the biggest issue at the
moment. Once this gets fixed I think we'll be switching to 16bit tiffs.
Thanks for the input though guys.
On 2/1/06, Luc-Eric
Rousseau <lucer(at)softimage.com> wrote:
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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