MIPMAP filtering on NON MIPMAP textures?

[eak]

Hi There, does anyone know how Maya treats a file node with its filtering set to MIPMAP, when it has a non MIPMAP conformant texture loaded. e.g. a normal JPEG, BMP with a single full size image.

Obviously if doesn't process as per MIPMAP normally would, otherwise you would get different coloured pixels appear when the MAP level changes..

It seems to work quite well as a general filtering method even without a MIPMAP file loaded.

Does it have 2 processing modes, 1 for a MIPMAP, and one as a fallback when a normal texture is present?

[joojaa]

It makes a mipmaps out of the image.

[eak]

I don't think it does. Mrays 'auto-conversion' does do this, but without conversion, there are no MIPMAPS.

[joojaa]

No it allmost certainly does this but not disk based, just memory residently. So if you make the mipmap then maya doesnt need to keep all the mipmaps in memory. Wheteer ot does this mipmap on demand or not is another thing that i dont know. but it does seem like it odes the mipmap on fly because blending between levels does not seem to cost it any more than not blending-

otherwise you would get different coloured pixels appear when the MAP level changes..

Not necceserily, it may blend between mipmap levels.

But yes this issua can easily be resolved by actually asking autodesk.