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PoorhouseFX

04-11-2003, 03:37 PM

I am experimenting with mental ray using a bottle I created. Mental Ray works great when there is just the bottle with my glass texture on it. However, I created a label texture in photoshop and no matter how or where I apply that texture the file will not render using Mental Ray. It keeps telling me the texture is an unrecognized file format. I have tried jpeg, tiff, bitmap, png, gif. No matter what it just will not render and keeps giving me the error.

Does anybody know why this is happening or how I can fix it?

MikeRhone

04-11-2003, 11:51 PM

Sometimes I have problems with Maya accepting a jpeg. I know why, but i have forgotten off of the top of my head. Try and save a Targa file for your texture. (Make sure you are in RGB mode, and that your targa options is saved at 24bits/channel.)

Is it just mental ray thats losing textures, or is it also with Mayas basic renderer and in Hardware shaded mode?

Let us know...

Mike R

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