Maya TIF problems

[toxic-xsr]

Hey,

not sure if its me or what, but here is the problem.

I rendered out some clouds color+alpha and saved them out as a TIF sequence from Maya. Bringing them into Combustion i notice quite a loss of image quality with and with out pre-multiplied on. by image quality i mean some of the faint clouds seem to disappear. These very same clouds i bring into either Shake or After Effects and they look great. I can see the whole image without loss of faint almost transparent areas.

However, saving out as SGI from Maya and into Combustion the image looks fine?

Am i doing something wrong? Bug?

Doc.

[deke-kincaid]

Tiff is a very loosly based standard(with multiple different versions) so every program writes out a slightly different version of it. Many are not compatible because tiff has 4 different compressions you can use and not every software can read and write all 4 of them. Then on top of that adobe forked tiff even more by adding layer support to it. I always stay away from tiff because of this. Iff or Sgi works fine for me(almost everything out there can read SGI).