I observed a pretty stupid thing in Vue5 Inf. When I finished my render (with the alpha map option checked) I clicked on the tiny alpha icon (to the right in the window) and wanted to save it but I don't know where the image goes to! (I see the rendered alpha map on screen) I right click and the popup says: "Save this image" - OK! Now I would like to know where the h*** can I find it? I went through the main folders (where the color pic is saved but no sign of the alpha pic there or in the Vue folder; I can't even give a name to the alpha pic or browse a correct folder where I can save it - it only disappears into somewhere/nowhere so now I pulling my hair! Any ideas, suggestion? Thanks Atte

I am only the messenger so don't blame me ;) Why Vue5I does this is beyond me, but go to My Documents/My Pictures/e-on software/Vue5 Infinate/ and there you will find the default location that it saves alpha maps to. "Please don't shoot the messenger" Hope this helps

If Vue doesn't ask where to save, it's strange. Are you sure you can save the alpha map? If you rendered at a size that doesn't fit your screen (bigger)you neeb to enable the alpha map to be rendered in the g_buffer, otherwise, you won't be able to save it. You can see it on the screen, but without the option to save. Happened to me a few times, and this is terribly annoying. Now I know I need to enable the g_buffer to be able to save it.

Thanks you guys; that's it! I may see the alpha map on the screen but I can't save it if I didn't extra check it at the render option. (not to intelligent) Hope I can save it next time! Thanks for your input! Regards Atte

There should be a warning about this when you render at bigger size that screen size, because this made me lose way too many z_depth maps.

If it works like Vue5, the alpha pic always wants to go into the windows username-documents-Vue folder.  I usually use the drop down window to direct the saved files to my working graphics folders.

greg

Thanks redtec! Unfortunatelly you have to check twice (in the render options + g-buffer) so that Vue REALLY can save it; otherwise Vue won't save even if you see the alphamap and clicked on "save": it simply won't save "physically" (and it won't give you an error message either) if you didn't check the box in the render options.

By the way; I thought when you make your "Final" render it will antialias your pic. To my amazement I discovered that it won't texture antialias until you pick  some of the higher quality render options (Superior...or user picked)  doh! I didn't understand why my 2 first pics were so grainy but now I've learned!

Texture AA is rarely needed, only for ultra big renders, if you use low or mid res textures. But "final" deosn't have enough AA anyway, which is why I always use "user settings", where I have control over render parameters.