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From: Anthony Cingle <[e-mail]>
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Subject: PAR and LW 4.0
Date: 26 Apr 1995 04:02:34 GMT
Organization: Penn State University, Center for Academic Computing
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        Well Found another problem with the PAR and LW 4.0  (PC Versions)   You can
save targas to your DOS drive and then transfer them to the PAR, but there is no way
you can save directly to the PAR from Lightwave.
        Why you ask?  Well here's what happens, you click on save RGB.  Get a dialog
requester for the name and destination.  Select, the PAR drive and type in a name
ex: "Car.TGA".  Start rendering and everything seems fine.  But when you go to play
back the animation it says that there is only 1 frame in the file!
        Turns out lightwave took "Car.TGA" and sent targas named "Car.TGA001,
Car.TGA002, etc."  Not good.  They have to be Car001.tga, Car002.tga, etc.
Lightwave just puts the frame number on the end of whatever the name of your file
is.  This would be O.K. if I could just type "Car" in the requester, but the PAR
doesn't allow access to anything w/o a .TGA extention.  If someone has figured out a
workaround to this I'd love to know.