Hey all,
I have 2 issues today.
1) Having an issue with an sgi file I'm using to create much of the displacement in my scene. It's a 16-bit sgi file, 4096x4096.
The scene loads, and comes up with an error that says 'ReadImage: Unable to load image: *image location*' This goes away if I go into my image map shader, select the path, alter the name of the file then change it back again. Then the sgi loads and weee! Realistic terrain ahoy.
Small problem is that this isn't a solution once it goes onto our render farm as the nodes pick the file up, open it up, happily ignore the sgi file and render the frames minus displacement.
Is there a work around for this issue? I need it to be 16-bit I was getting stepping on 8. It needs to be this large in pixels as it's a 40km wide shot and lower resolutions weren't introducing the detail needed. Any other formats are requesting to be converted to sgi and a cursory look around the forum suggests this is a normal thing.
2) When exporting my camera data, and indeed any objects out of softimage into terragen, they come in at the correct location, move the correct way and so on, but the terrain is lower than my terrain in softimage. I've checked this using stills of my soft scene and tg2 scene with test objects in place. The objects line up... the landscape doesn't. I've tried many times today exporting the terrain out of TG2 and seeing if it magically lowers itself in Softimage, but to no avail.
I'm thinking this might be to do with the terrain generate node I'm using to get the terrain out of TG2. I'm saving it out as a .ter file, then importing that into Softimage using the import elevation dataset plugin.
All my displacement occurs before the heightfield generate node, but somehow it comes into Softimage slightly taller than I'd like.
If there's no solution to this, I may have to fake it by scaling the object down, but I'd prefer it to be accurate. I don't want a hint of floating between softimage and the tg2 content.
I've attached the tgd, even though it refers to multiple images here that are way too large to upload.
Anybody got any clues how i can resolve my loading issue or heightfield issue?