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Fess
09-11-2011, 05:21 AM
Windows XP/Houdini 11.0.775

Shell>navigate to the folder where the textures are then, trying to convert .png to .rat

syntax:
icp something.png someting.rat
unable to create .rat

or
iconvert something.png someting.rat
unable to create .rat



Any assist is appreciated,
~Fess
Hun
09-11-2011, 10:18 AM
You are not by any chance trying to convert an "unusual" png with for example one channel only? A lot of 8bit/channel-formats are only implemented so far by Iconvert/COPs/etc that they need RGB or RGBA but not for example R only (.TGA is the same, the spec allows it, the houdini implementation does not).

You might also check the obvious like not having sufficient rights to write to that directory.