The thing that works for me is the script from daniel rind to mass convert images with imgconv. The problem seems to be the image aspect which is absurdly wrong - most apps refuse to open the file while fusion actually uses the broken aspect ratio. If you correct it by hand, it actually works.
imgconv spits out three lines of errors but the copied file is fine afterwards.
Copy the following into a text file, change the paths and file options to your installation and needs and name it something like imgconv_to_LZWtif.bat Drag and drop your files onto it.
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REM (at)ECHO OFF
REM Simple mass file conversion using imgconv
REM by Daniel Rind, enjoy
REM modify the imgconv line to change parameters
call "C:\Grafik\Softimage\XSI_5.0_Foundation\Application\bin\setenv.bat"
:convertfile
(at)IF "%1" == "" GOTO end
C:\Grafik\Softimage\XSI_5.0_Foundation\Application\bin\imgconv %1 "%~d1%~p1%~n1_LZW.tif" -compression lzw
(at)SHIFT
(at)GOTO convertfile
:end
(at)ECHO.
(at)ECHO Done!
(at)pause
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I hope this helps you as it helped me :-)
Best regards,
Thomas Helzle
On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 01:33:14 +0100, 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.
- Â
----- 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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