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[Maximilianibus]

hey guys! many images in the www are pngs... so make them compatibel!

[lynn22]

Why would that be a requirement ?

Convert your image to a format that can be imported.

Also, remember that most images on the www are copyright of the poster and may not be available for others to use.

[Maximilianibus]

well, but i prefer using pngs and bmps than gifs or such

[3D Joe Wiltshire]

Jpegs ftw

[novocas7rian]

PNG support would be nice though especially if anim8or supported alpha mapping in textures, and rendered shadows accordingly.

For instance, creating a rectangle, IV mapping a texture of a tree onto it with transparent background, and the "ground" under the tree has the tree-shaped shadow when rendered rather than a box, as happens in Povray.

[davdud101]

Ah i don't really like jpg's, they're sooooo low quality and png's look so much better. Oh yeah novocas I have absolutly no idea what ur talkin about.

[Maximilianibus]

I think He means the correct render of alpha maps

[novocas7rian]

Sorry if I'm not clear - I'm rushed for time right now else I'd setup an example in povray to illustrate.

Yes, I'm talking about correctly rendering alpha maps, which PNG would support, but also rendering _shadows_ of alpha-mapped-textured objects correctly.  In my "tree" illustration, the object is just a rectangle, so if its treated as a solid as anim8or does now, you'd see a rectangular shadow cast by it.

If the rectangle, however, is textured with a PNG that uses transparency, it'd be great if the shadow also used the alpha map of the texture.  For instance, if the rectangle is textured to a tree, you'd ideally see the tree being rendered and other objects behind it (eg support for the alpha maps) and you'd also see the tree cast a tree-shadow, not the rectangular shadow of the object its mapped onto.  Hope that makes it clearer.

[davdud101]

Ok, that makes much more sense.

[spicy]

Jpegs ftw

I prefer PNG's over GIF's and JPEG's.

png's look so much better.

I agree, and the fact that they support transparency is a bonus.

[davdud101]

Yup, transmaps would probably become obselete if Anim8or supported PNG's w/ transparencies.

[Maximilianibus]

Well, yeah. But Actually i thought, if i eg Need a Wood textur,  90% of the good Images are pngs 

[hihosilver]

PNG's are easy to convert to a usable format, so don't eliminate the option of using those textures.  I do agree, PNG's would be a wonderful feature, the issue is this feature's been requested a thousand times already, and most people want it.  I believe Steve knows people want it to be implemented, he just hasn't gotten around to it yet, as he's a very busy man!

[davdud101]

I think Steve's given up on Anim8or and doesn't have the heart to tell us. But yeah, PNG's are easy enough to convert, just they lose so much quality.

[Kyle]

then why not pass the torch  by making it open source?