Overwhelming good advice Neil, the list is alive & kickin' :)
Just to add a bit: rendering reflection and other channels to separate 16bit layers would be very handy, you don't need to re-render the whole thing again when finetuning, just adjust the layers in the post processing/editing software. I haven't delved into this deeply yet but it's high on the list-to-do! If memory serves, Tim Borgmann made a tutorial about this.
OpenEXR sounds fantastic, but does it have layers like PSD? A great addition whatever, RS has been designed for high dynamic range internally since V4 - they look years ahead. Neil, strange that it doesn't appear in the available output objects, though. They advertize it, it should be somewhere ;)
-Mark H ----------------- In v6 it seems as if Photoshop files are the way to go if you need more than eight bits per channel. In RS it seems to support 16 bits at least. What you do is go to the "Output objects" tab of the select window and create a new "Photoshop" object. Then set the option for 16 bit and you can use this for rendering. In the talks with the TV company I mentioned, the SGI RGB format was identified as capable of deeper channels. Of course, this format isn't in RS as far as I know. When it comes to choosing an eight bit format, I suggest that you go PNG. That has lossless compression and is license free. *wink* Best regards, Fredrik
