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 9:22 AM

In reference to your question concerning which image editor I'm using -- it's Photo Shop 5 (same for V 3.0 and 4.0) and Painter 6.0. I even tried to open one of the Mac Photo Shop TIFF images in the Windows version of Photo Shop 5.0 and it wouldn't recognize it. I think the main problem has to do with the way the Mac handles resource files, but I'm not sure -- it's only a guess. I do know that the Windows programs take the photo Shop JPEG files with no problems. The 1 to 10 scale is the way Photo Shop 5.0 (at least on the Mac Version) handles it. And yes, I do specify PC byte order and have tried it with and without LZW compression. The programs I've tried in Windows are: PC Paint Photo Shop 5 MS Word (import picture option) The files were saved onto a CD Rom in ISO 9660 format (a standard Windows format). I also tried it with a Syquist EZ 135 cartridge and a 3M floppy disk which was pre-formatted for Windows by the manufacturer. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them and would be more than willing to try them out. Jim Moore (jnmoore@usaor.net)