Many reasons:
- 3rd party applications have little or no support. Even the photoshop .pic plugin is out of date. - The web has emerged as a tools and communications platform. Browsers don't support display of .pic. - Artists like to see thumbnails in filesystem tools like windows explorer. While a plugin can be written, none has. - The .pic file format is 8-bit only. There are hooks in the format to extend it, but nobody has touched that code in over 15 years. If you live strictly inside of Softimage, .pic would be a good choice. But since production often involves all sorts of applications working together, .pic can be a hinderance from lack of support. Matt From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Ponthieux, Joey Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 11:16 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: 16 bit tif from photoshop not working in softimage? So I am curious why no one is using SI pic? That is the native format. Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) Mymic Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center ____________________________________________________________ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. On 11/16/2012 1:38 PM, Steven Caron wrote: slow chant... tif... tif.. tif. tif tif. :) On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Luc-Eric Rousseau <luceri...@gmail.com<mailto:luceri...@gmail.com>> wrote: Mental ray on supports 8 bit png, afaik On Nov 16, 2012 1:26 PM, "Gene Crucean" <emailgeneonthel...@gmail.com<mailto:emailgeneonthel...@gmail.com>> wrote: png is an excellent format regardless of what it was designed for. But yes, it's true they aren't for everything. On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Steven Caron <car...@gmail.com<mailto:car...@gmail.com>> wrote: they have no mip mapping support and it was primarily for web development... no thanks On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Adam Seeley <adam_see...@yahoo.com<mailto:adam_see...@yahoo.com>> wrote: I use png's as much as possible, never seems to be a problem with texturing or rendering. Good lossless compression keeps re-load times down when compositing. Flame/Smoke can't load them of course! Adam ________________________________ From: Simon van de Lagemaat <si...@theembassyvfx.com<mailto:si...@theembassyvfx.com>> To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> Sent: Thursday, 15 November 2012, 21:06 Subject: Re: 16 bit tif from photoshop not working in softimage? What do people here use as a standard format? I always thought tiff was the least offensive format but after running into some issues with the byte order bs we're wondering if png's might be better? On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Gene Crucean <emailgeneonthel...@gmail.com<mailto:emailgeneonthel...@gmail.com>> wrote: > .tif's = the devil > > > > ... that is all > > > > -- > Gene Crucean - Emmy winning - Oscar nominated VFX Supervisor / iOS-OSX > Developer / Filmmaker / Photographer > ** Freelance for hire ** > www.genecrucean.com<http://www.genecrucean.com> > > ~~ Please use my website's contact form on > www.genecrucean.com<http://www.genecrucean.com> for any > personal emails. Thanks. I may not get them at this address. ~~ > -- Gene Crucean - Emmy winning - Oscar nominated VFX Supervisor / iOS-OSX Developer / Filmmaker / Photographer ** Freelance for hire ** www.genecrucean.com<http://www.genecrucean.com> ~~ Please use my website's contact form on www.genecrucean.com<http://www.genecrucean.com/> for any personal emails. Thanks. I may not get them at this address. ~~
