Mistyk Posted March 13, 2003 Share Posted March 13, 2003 Hi, Are there any image formats other than PIC/PICNC, which can hold deep raster planes within the files themselves? Can HMV files contain DR planes? Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old school Posted March 21, 2003 Share Posted March 21, 2003 That houdini can read or write natively, it is our .pic format only. Other formats that support deep rasters: tiff, photoshop native format, the ilm image format. the discrete image format. Some shops in Hollywood develop their own formats that support extended bit planes. Digital Domain and Nuke for example. There are probably others, but these are the most commonly used formats in the SFX industry. I firmly believe that the pic format from Side Effects is a very modern image format and is very robust, supports compression, allows arbitrary number of raster planes at varying bit depths. Powerful stuff and you don't have to write a bunch of tools to support it as you can use Halo or hscript to bust apart the images if need be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mistyk Posted March 21, 2003 Author Share Posted March 21, 2003 Thank you for the good information old school! Do you know if the .pic format supports any "native" form of compression, which allows reading and modifying of the files without first uncompressing them? (Sort of like the non-lossy LZW compression of the .tif format.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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