Alan, of course, assumes everyone a) uses Linux and b) doesn't laugh out
loud when Bash is mentioned.
If you're using Windows there's a good section in the docs about either
converting using a .bat script or having XSI do all the conversion work for
you automatically.
This example for converting all files of a particular type:-
for %i in (*.pic *.tga *.jpg) do imf_copy [-v] [-p] %i %~ni.map
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> Behalf Of Alan Jones
> Sent: 16 November 2006 14:52
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: working with large textures
>
> Hi Joe,
>
> Here's a bash script to do that. It doesn't do recursively though.
> Plus it'll just try convert everything (except map files) at the
> moment. You could change it easily enough to just do the file formats
> you want. It'll just throw a small error to the screen for any that
> aren't images and keep going. You can also rerun it on a directory and
> it'll only convert the images which have changed since the last
> conversion.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan.
>
> On 11/16/06, Joe Laffey <joe(at)laffey.tv> wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Andi Farhall wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry - i meant a 1000 frame sequence of 6k frames. So in fairness
> > > only one 6k texture per frame.... I'll let you know if i have any
> luck....
> >
> > FWIW, I beleve imf_copy can convert an entire directory at once to
> > .map format.
> >
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