EXR rendered sequences?

[JimB]

Just asking, in case I'm missing something; Can you save an animation to EXR format? I can only save as BMP so far, which is no use at all for production.

It's been answered before, I'm sure, but couldn't find anything using Search.

[old_blaggard]

Good question - I would guess that it's not actually possible right now, but I'm sure that feature wouldn't be too tough to add.

[airplane]

Yes... animation sequences can be dumped out to EXR as easily as any other format that TG2 writes out.  There is no difference between processing a single frame or a sequence.

[JimB]

Care to share how to do it? I tried in the output options but no joy; BMP only.

[JohnnyBoy]

Just replace the .bmp with .exr

ex. Sequence/Output - Output image filename - C:\Desktop\temp%04d.exr

[old_blaggard]

That sounds too simple to be true .

[Lucio]

It's true, I confirm . The only thing to do is to rename the extension from .bmp to .exr - or any other supported format, I guess

[JohnnyBoy]

That sounds too simple to be true .

It does, but I've tested it.

[airplane]

It is exactly as simple as that... just replace the extension.  We have produced many sequences this way and tis about as strait-forward as you can get.  Just make sure you have a tool to utilize .exr sequences.

[old_blaggard]

Good to know .

[JimB]

Thanks for that very simple solution (slaps head). Works an absolute treat.

[neon22]

I think I kind of knew this but didn't know this.
I have looked on Planetside website and in my doc but can't seem to find a complete list of supported image formats.
Anyone know where it is ?  (hoping its not on page 1 :-()

[neon22]

on checking the output of the renderer it appears the only legal file types for rendering are:

• bmp (bulky)
• tif   (appears to be uncompressed only - so also bulky)
• exr  (its a brave new world compresses well too)
• sgi  (for those of you old enough to remember - bulky)
• rgb  (for the really old people who skipped the sgi format because it was too modern - bulky)
•         OK you're not really old and I'm not really funny

unfortunately no PNG     (it would be smaller I think and it carries the alpha)

[Oshyan]

Neon, I believe you're correct that those are the only currently supported formats. We'd like to expand that support but it's not a priority currently as the existing options are functional, if not optimal.

- Oshyan

[Sethren]

Yes, PNG does carry the alpha data inside of it. I use this format a lot for transparencies. I do not think it is any smaller then say a BMP, i may be wrong though.