Title: RE: 16bit Zdepth?
That's all true joe..
I'm sort of taking guesses at what the user is
doing; if you're setting up a new render and you
need beauty pass plus zdepth information for
a plug-in in AfterFx, you can follow my steps
since AFX understands pic+zpic without any
other data massaging requirement. AfterFxx
will only recognize something as a depth
channel if it's in RLE, RPF or .Zpic. Otherwise
if you need a grayscale image sequence you
can use the fxtree or one of the converters
people have written to convert .Zpic to grayscale
image.
For Shake, .Zpic is useless but it can read
any floating point image format MR can produce without
massaging.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM on behalf of Joe Laffey
It was my understanding that you could simply render one blank .pic file
that matches your render dimensions, and then duplicate that a bunch of
times (with a renaming tool/script) in the same folder as the .zpic's. My
understanding was that the .pic requirement was just because the .zpic
format (imprudently) does not store any header info.
This way you could render to a decent floating point or 16 bit format, and
not be stuck with antique 8bit renders.
