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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 11:20:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: John Gross <jgross@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: PAR and LW 4.0
To: Anthony Cingle <ajc126@psu.edu>
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On Mon, 24 Apr 1995, Anthony Cingle wrote:
> 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.
If you look carefully at the Record panel options, you'll discover that
you can type in a base name, and choose an Output Filename Foramt. Choose
Name001.xxx and choose Targa as your output format, and LW will
automatically save them as name001.tga, name002.tga, etc. It even gives
you examples in the info fields.
If you are saving to a DOS drive that does not support long file names,
make sure you have no more than 8.3 in the entire filename (including
digits) or LW will not be able to save your images.
JG