Mental ray on supports 8 bit png, afaik On Nov 16, 2012 1:26 PM, "Gene Crucean" <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>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 <[email protected]> >>> *To:* [email protected] >>> *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 >>> <[email protected]> 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 >>> > >>> > ~~ Please use my website's contact form on 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 > > ~~ Please use my website's contact form on www.genecrucean.com for any > personal emails. Thanks. I may not get them at this address. ~~ > >
