Arnold has the "maketx" commandline utility to make .tx files out of textures. At work we made a batch job for the farm that converts a scene's textures to (mipmapped) .tx for Arnold's sake.
In the renderer options somewhere there is a toggle to make Arnold use .tx files if it finds them in the same root as the texture paths. It's pretty handy. On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Steven Caron <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. ~~ >> >**** >> >> ** ** >> > >
