Yes. PNG. Best lossless format around. It supports 8 and 16 bits,
interlace, and it's open source. You can even create a Quicktime in PNG
and it will keep the alpha.
Chris Marshall wrote:
Sorry, it wasn't meant to sound like a reaction. We send material to
the USA and sometimes it's usefull to use pict because it uses
lossless compression, handy for fitting larger amounts of animation
(sequences of frames) on fewer DVD's. I know soft pics also have
lossless compression, but the format isn't supported at the place we
send the material to, whereas pict's are. Jpegs aren't lossless and
Tiffs take up masses of space, so picts are quite usefull, still.
Is there a more up-to-date alternative?
Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote:
My apologies, I didn't expect this reaction... PICT is an early 1980s 8-bit-only format designed to go with the old Macintosh QuickDraw, and I hadn't encountered people choosing that over the more popular 8-bit formats. I don't think mental ray supports it. I wouldn't see myself using it except for making icons or splash screens for OS 9.0 applications resources.
From: Chris Marshall
Yes, Pict or Pct! I'm aware of the differences between this
and soft pics.
As a 'useless legacy format', is there a reason we shouln't use it?
Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote:
you use Apple's Quicktime PICT files? that's what quicktime
thinks .pic are, and the format I meant we support from SI3D
(in our case with the file extension .pct)
From:Chris Marshall
What's useless about it? We still use it.
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