Tiff Compression

[madder]

Hello! I have a problem (original!); it

[stevesayer]

Actually, good ol' F1 is helpful here, after all.

At least for Maya 3.0.

I went through the Global Index for all the TIF entries, and found:

9 Preparing to Render

Setting rendered image properties

...

TIF: Tagged-Image File Format with 8 bits per color channel. Maya saves the image and mask channels in one file, and the depth channel as a separate file. Maya generates TIFF files that use TIFF 6.0 compression. To generate uncompressed TIFF files, set the IMF_TIFF_COMPRESSION environment variable before starting Maya.

There you go!

-Steve

[neo-jas]

Hi, Gurb!

Well... SteveSayer is as ... as the F1, because none of them explain the
real procedure to solve this little problem.

In order to solve this question it is necessary to change a simple
Environment Variable of Maya.
Just do this:

In Windows 2000:

1) Close Maya
2) In the desktop, right click on My Computer and choose Properties
3) Click on the Advanced tab
4) Click on the Environment Variables tab
5) Under "Sytem variables" click "New"
6) In the Variable field put "IMF_TIFF_COMPRESSION" (without quotation marks)
7) In the Value field put "none" (without quotation marks)
8) Ok, Ok, Ok.

That's all!

Now you can start Maya again. From this moment your renders saved in tiff format are
uncompressed.

[feimage]

do you need a tiff compression library to help you with this. i happen to know this wonderful and my favoriate tiff compressor at this point. it can compress tiff file with the most advanced technology. good luck.