.MAP conversion

[Bitter]

If you have 2008 there's a. . .sort of hidden. . .button in the preferences (rendering) to auto convert with imf_copy in the background.

It runs the -p flag and makes them EXRs which are automatically memory caching.

[HJ-panorama]

hi saltiva


use this, copy it into a text file with .dat extension.
it works fine for me, just grab your texture and drop it on the .dat file so that it converts the file to a .map file at the same directory :

:convertfile
@IF %1 == "" GOTO end
imf_copy -p %1 "%~d1%~p1%~n1.map"
@SHIFT
@GOTO convertfile
:end
@ECHO.
@ECHO Done!
@pause



cheers!

[achoury]

hi saltiva


use this, copy it into a text file with .dat extension.
it works fine for me, just grab your texture and drop it on the .dat file so that it converts the file to a .map file at the same directory :

:convertfile
@IF %1 == "" GOTO end
imf_copy -p %1 "%~d1%~p1%~n1.map"
@SHIFT
@GOTO convertfile
:end
@ECHO.
@ECHO Done!
@pause

cheers!

hi
convert to .bat extention not .dat extension!!
rachid

[microspot]

If you have 2008 there's a. . .sort of hidden. . .button in the preferences (rendering) to auto convert with imf_copy in the background.

It runs the -p flag and makes them EXRs which are automatically memory caching.

yeah that's a really cool feature as it creates a folder and put the new exr files in it leaving your original fils untouched, (by default in a "cache" folder in your sourceimages folder).
It does it as pre render process only once per scene. If you change a texture after the render it will udpate it and convert it to exr when you render again. You can do it directly from the render settings window without doing a render using the "update optimized cached textures now". Also the exr format is tileable so:

Using this format, mental ray does not load entire images but only the portion of the images required to render. Memory consumption is therefore reduced and you can render larger scenes and scenes that include textures with a higher resolution. This feature increases rendering efficiency when you have a complex scene with a lot of textures that cannot all fit into memory at the same time.


cool new feature of 2008

[chronic]

if you search the forums you can find a set of Photoshop scripts that let you export an image strait from photoshop as a .map, i use these all the time and they seem to work well.

[CKPinson]

Chronic: agreed, I posted a link to a good PS plug to save as .map in my other forum entry- I believe it was titled "pixarish type renders with Mental Ray" or something to that effect. anyways, I don't have 2008 so this is basically for previous versions. Thanx for all of ya'lls great input.

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