Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Texture maps: BMP vs. TIF. Why one or the other?

arcady opened this issue on Dec 28, 1999 ยท 15 posts


jnmoore posted Wed, 29 December 1999 at 1:20 AM

Arcady: Posting .TIFF files is not a good idea, especially if they originated from a Macintosh computer using PhotoShop. I have yet to see a Windows program that will recognize the file format (except, perhaps, hijack). JPEG files can be saved in one of 10 compression settings and 7 through 10 give very little image quality loss yet yield good compression figures. Since Poser 4 (at least the Mac Version) will read jpeg files directly, this would seem to be the ideal cross platform format for us all to use (as long as the person originating the file doesn't use the lower numbers on the compression scale). Hope this clears things up a little for you. BTW the Mac version will also read BMP formated files directly.