#Render colors
4 messages in this thread
Could you all tell me what your standard rendering process is in 3D Studio? As
far as I can tell, TGA is the way to go for best color rendering results. It
seems to take up a good amount of drive space though. On my other system, I
always render to disk and then lay off to tape. Thats what I want to do with 3D
Studio (I have ver. 3.0). If I render to disk, the 3D Studio DISK-TO-VTR option
doesn't support TGA files unless you make a .ifl file which is a pain in the
a__ if you have a 500+ frame animation! The .flc support is nice but then you
only get 256 colors and it looks aweful. WHAD DO YOU DO?!
Thanks for your responses!!!!
-Derek Chimenti
Karl Productions
There is a program here on compuserve in the ASOFT Utilities section or What's
New or somewhere, it's called DTA(DAVES TARGA ANIMATION UTILITY) that will,
among other things, compile a series of TGAs into either a 24-bit FLT flic file
or a 16-bit FLX (or FLH) file. You can then play the animation with the
included player in realtime in DOS.
Since you have 500 frames and are going to a VTR, that's probably not an
option. 3DS3 will, I think, render directly to tape (Render/Setup). Check the
docs. Otherwise, you could render to an external storage device, like an
optical drive. As for making IFLs, there's a utility in the 3DS root directory
called MAKEIFL.EXE that works well. Or you could, in the directory where your
images are, type:
dir *.tga /on /b >filename.ifl
This makes an easy IFL.
Eric at Mondo
Derek,
Disk to VTR most certaintly does support TGA files. It is possible that they
were not in the Image directory or something else was wrong. But it is
supported.
However, I prefer IFL files myself, anyway. There is a utility here on the
forum called MAKIFL.ZIP which will generate your IFL files for you. No more
text editor! Download it and watch your life get easier.
-Brian
Disk-to-VTR does support .tga files. I do it all the time! Just set up the
in-point, VTR setup, then chose the first .tga file you wish to record, and it
will record each subsequent .tga file with the same non-numerical prefix
(test0000.tga, test0001.tga, test0002.tga, etc…). As far as ifl's go, that's
the easiest thing of all. Just download makeifl.zip (I may have the spelling
wrong) from the libraries here, and follow the instructions in the text file.
Nothing could be easier and quicker (well… maybe not _nothing_ <g>)
John Tissavary (LUNA cie)