CompuServe Messages

Dennis: Until recently I would try to save my .tga's to a backup tape as disk space is at such a premium. However, sometimes I had to kill 'em before I could even get them to safe storage. Keeping the .tga's can be useful if you have to rerender a select bunch of them. Since they are numbered you can easily replace the corresponding frames. If you save just the .ani files from the PAR you may have some difficulty in future re-rendering as the frame numbers upon export may not match the 3DS frame numbers as you may have joined a few segments together with the PAR, deleted a few frames, repeated a few frames, etc. If you were planning to put your animation to a higher quality format you would want the original .tga's I suppose. When the PAR had difficulty with .ani files with frame counts above 896 the motivation for saving the .tga's was admittedly a bit stronger. When I get Greg's new PAROUT utilities I will probably stop saving my .tga's. I will then be able to delete the files as they are copied to the PAR during net-renders, (right Greg?) Bob