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Subject: Re: PAR and LW 4.0
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Anthony Cingle writes:
> 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.
>
There's an option in the SAVE IMAGE feature that allows you to save
as "NameXXX.IFF". I assume there's something similar for ".tga". If
not, you may have to do a batch extension rename, which fortunately
is trivial.
So the PC-PAR >>only<< takes files with ".tga" ?? Wierd, and sucky.