What image file formats can be used for decal?

[chris11jed]

Hello all,

 

Just wondering if there is a list of usable image file formats that can be used for decals. I know '.jpeg' can be used, however after modifying an image in adobe photoshop and then applying it to my model as a decal, nothing showed up. Sorry I can't say what file format it was, I'd scrapped it and used a .jpeg instead. However after a while I started to wonder. So does anyone have a list? Also more to the point can I use a .gif or .png image file without changing settings in decal?

 

Happy animating!

[higginsdj]

TGA, JPG, BMP, DIB, PNG, HDR, PIC, PCX, EXR, AVI, MOV are all listed as valid image file formats.

 

Cheers

[Caroline]

Your jpeg should have worked, though I believe most people use tga format, as it is a lossless format, whereas jpeg will give compression problems.

[chris11jed]

Hi David,

 

Thanks for the quick reply, nice work!

 

I am trying to put a map of the world on a sphere that has the oceans transparent and the land mass black. Photoshop allows me to save a transparent background which helps and it saves as .png but not so with .jpeg, so I'll give it a go.

 

One more question; I want to make the black land mass (from seeing it through the sphere/planet) change color, to blue as the planet spins. Is this possible on the one sphere or would i extrude another one outside/inside the original and decal the same map of the world (now with blue colored land mass) on the outside/inside? Or am I barking up the wrong tree and there's a complete other way to do such a thing?

[chris11jed]

G'Day Caroline,

 

Yes the jpeg did work. My globe with world map decal spins like a charm. My problem was pre-AM in photoshop. It didn't like transparent parts in an image. But Now....

 

Thanks for the reply

 

cheers

 

chris

[C-grid]

Hi David,

 

Thanks for the quick reply, nice work!

 

I am trying to put a map of the world on a sphere that has the oceans transparent and the land mass black. Photoshop allows me to save a transparent background which helps and it saves as .png but not so with .jpeg, so I'll give it a go.

 

One more question; I want to make the black land mass (from seeing it through the sphere/planet) change color, to blue as the planet spins. Is this possible on the one sphere or would i extrude another one outside/inside the original and decal the same map of the world (now with blue colored land mass) on the outside/inside? Or am I barking up the wrong tree and there's a complete other way to do such a thing?

 

I made an example of how one could approach this...

 

Niels

Project1.zip

example.mov

[the_black_mage]

actualy in v12 png formats tend to darken....

[Fuchur]

Did it appear when you did a preview-rendering or only not when you used the shaded-view?

 

*Fuchur*

[the_black_mage]

the image period, right when you open the image is twice the darkness. and it effects materials and every thing...

[AProd]

I've always been a big Targa fan. I use it for everything--decals, rendering out to, etc. It's lossless and can carry an alpha channel. Plays well with video, too. The only problem I ever had was back when Adobe Photoshop 7 first came out--it had a problem with the alpha channel (they provided a patch to fix it, but it's something to look out for if you have that version of PS).

 

Cheers, and good luck!