its not for softimage, its for arnold. arnold uses open image io which does support automatic mip mapping but we dont use it much... i can't be sure that softimage uses available mip map levels for displaying in the viewport.
s On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Eric Cosky <[email protected]> wrote: > This is the most intriguing comment in this thread to me – I never > considered using images with mipmaps for rendering in Softimage. I didn’t > realize any file formats outside of DDS even supported them, and it never > crossed my mind that Softimage would use them for rendering if available. I > assumed the renderer would create them on the fly as needed, which it seems > would only incur a small load time cost with the same end result. I’d be > interested in hearing more about why & how people typically setup and use > mipmaps for Softimage, in particular, is there any practical difference in > the resulting image or time of rendering? **** > > Thanks**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Steven Caron > *Sent:* Thursday, November 15, 2012 6:12 PM > > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: 16 bit tif from photoshop not working in softimage?**** > > ** ** > > 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**** > > ** ** > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Simon van de Lagemaat < > [email protected]> wrote:**** > > 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. ~~ > >**** > > ** ** >
