3ds: TGA Alpha Split not saved to correct place.

Deadline
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I was trying to render out some stuff where I was splitting out the alpha. Which creates a new file with just the Alpha data in it. Only problem was it wasn’t showing up in the output folder, just the main output file. So I went looking through the log for clues and found.

0: INFO: Lightning: writing output to temp file: C:\Users\Person\AppData\Local\Temp\tasktest0000.tga
0: INFO: Lightning: Saved image to \Server\Output\tasktest0000.tga

So it looks like the lightning plugin is actually doing the saving and then copying the file over later…but it obviously doesn’t handle alpha’s. I looked in that temp file and sure enough there were all my alpha files. Can anything be done about this? Out of curiosity why does the lighting plugin handle the file saving anyway?

Jeff

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This behavior is optional and controlled by the “Enable Local Rendering” checkbox in the Submit Max To Deadline dialog:
franticfilms.com/software/su … er_Options
If you uncheck it, Max will be responsible for the saving directly to the output location and your Split Alpha would end up there.
I guess it would be possible to check that Split Alpha is set in a TGA output and handle it in the former case, so I would consider this a bug. But since we use EXRs exclusively, we never caught that, so thanks for the bug report!

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This was an oversight on our part. We actually had some code to handle the alpha split, but it wasn’t getting used. This will be fixed in the upcoming 3.1 SP1 release.

Cheers,

  • Ryan