Complex UV Layout in Maya
Over the last couple of years UV layout in Maya has changed for the better. In this course we're going to be taking a look at some of those changes as we UV map an entire character
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What is best for rendering TGA JPEG TIFF?
What is the best (or standard) image format to render to instead of making avis in maya 5 that have the best quality... JPEG TARGA or TIFF etc...?
I'm always rendering TARGA file but they are huge!
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After I have the tiff then I use photoshop or fcheck to change it to whatever I need (jpg if I want to post it on the web, psd if I did something to it in photoshop, bmp if I want to use it again in maya as a texture or something, etc...)
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I guess I will compare tiff and targa I mainly dont want to loose quality...
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Thanks guys!!!
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Test sizes:
Original image 1536x2048 pixels.
TGA uncompressed: 9mb
TIFF uncompressed: 9.01mb
TGA RLE compressed: 8.16mb
TIFF LZW compressed: 4.13mb
TIFF ZIP compressed: 3.97mb
So obviously TIFF creates smaller images, but your milage may vary depending on image content. TGA is also ALOT faster to store, requiring almost no CPU time for the compression. LZW is slower, and ZIP is the slowest. You'll have to weight the pro's and the con's.
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Thanks for the great info!!!
I'm playing with this and I think TGA will work better for me since like you say when it comes to store is faster and i need more of that instead of saving disk space since im trying to cut down time.
I'm kinda shifted from space (you can always get a new HHD) vs Speed (can't get a new CPU)
again thanks for the Info!!! guys
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There are none, as PNG's are lossless. However in production, I would suggest EXR's.What about png? Isn't it similar to TGA? I use png on my images. What are the cons of that one?
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PNG may not lose quality, but what about size? Is it smaller, bigger, equal to TGA or TIFF? The PNGs are quite big in size, as the rendering of my solar system has proven, but I didn't bother to check TGA size. All i know is that TGA was giving me transparent bg problems, as AAE was putting a fake background, so I needed to switch to PNG.There are none, as PNG's are lossless. However in production, I would suggest EXR's.
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