[Thiers no bmp. or jpeg. only tga.?]

I usually just render animations to a .mov file and then when Quicktime is open you can simply scroll to whatever frame you want and choose EDIT, COPY.

 

Then simply paste into Photoshop, Irfanview or any photo/paint program and save as a jpg.

 

I guess you never answered my question about what version you were using? V12 is downloadable, but you need the right CD to launch the program.

 

Cheers,

 

Eugene

 

 

ok ok... mybad about the version i have v11.1 and where can i download it at ?

[Thiers no bmp. or jpeg. only tga.?]

I am not sure what you are asking...?

 

If you are trying to render, you won't have the jpg option unless you have version 12.

 

E

 

ok is v12 the new one is it downloadable free what is it. also then how did people put pictures on the stills page and have a format of jpeg before the v12 came out? and also how did they keep great quality

[Thiers no bmp. or jpeg. only tga.?]

well that wasnt long at all now when i click the format button it drops down and gives me 3 choices avi. mov. tga. but no jpeg and when i try to upload it it says that the file extension is forbidden?? a little more help plz...

[How to take stills?]

When you are ready to render to file, where it says format, click on the file type and change it to jpeg or tga or bmp or whatever still type you want.

 

Scott

 

ok so the targa is for stills or is that just what is recomended well thanks for all the help im sure ill be talkin to u some other time

[How to take stills?]

You've pretty much got it. If you have not done any animation, just a still that you've set up with all the lighting, then just change the frame range to start at 0:00:00 and end at 0:00:00 and it will rneder frame 0. If you've done an animation and you want to render a still from the middle of it, say frame 68, then set the frame range from 68 to 68, depending on your frames per second it will result in different looks. If you are rendering at 30 frames per second(fps), then it will read 0:02:08. You get the idea!

 

Have fun,

Scott

 

ok thanks for the help now for another question how do i make it a JPEG because i can only get it to render to a AVI. or MOV. ??

because if you take a look at the stills place mine is the weird one with AVI on the thumbnail...

[How to take stills?]

well i was just wondering how to take stills and not animations. I open director mode then lay everything out then i hit the render file do i type 00:00:00 or 00:00:01 or is there a diffrent way to go about this

 

 

sincerly, |logan|-|BHS animator|