Lol! You just made our pipeline guy a happy camper now that he knows what was randomly crashing soft out when processing assets.
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Jonathan Laborde <[email protected]> wrote: > We run Softimage In linux (centos 6) here, and we have discovered that Tiff > files with a certain compression make it crash instantly. I don't remember > which one it is as we use exr most of the time but once in a while we > receive an image from a client in tiff and it crashes everything so we have > to convert it to another compression/format. > > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Marc-Andre Carbonneau > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> We use tiffs across the board here and never get these ugly problems >> you’re describing. >> >> A good pipeline, a clean workflow and some Photoshop actions avoid human >> interactions when it comes time to spit out files for rendering. J >> >> >> >> >> >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gene Crucean >> Sent: 15 novembre 2012 23:15 >> >> >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: 16 bit tif from photoshop not working in softimage? >> >> >> >> The problem, is that they constantly break things or just don't work. If >> you can get them to work consistently on your end... more power to ya. >> >> >> >> bmp? xpm? Naa... photos. Analog. Keepin it real over here. >> >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Raffaele Fragapane >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Totally, why on earth would anyone ever want some functionality or >> versatility?! Down with it! Bring MS' bmp back, I say. >> >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Gene Crucean >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> That's exactly why I hate them. Wayyyy too many flavors and options for >> people to f**k up. Yes they support a lot of features... but I almost never >> want any of them, and I don't want texture guys saving them with layers >> using lzw compression in cmyk ;) >> >> >> >> Seriously. They suck :P >> >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Steven Caron <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> tifs are perfectly fine... they support many bit depths, mip mapping, and >> tiling. i did a comparison to exr as a texture format years ago and >> OIIO/Arnold liked the tif files better. >> >> s >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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. ~~ >> >> > >
