rpf format

[mikeh]

according to this atricle, vray renders to rpf format.

http://area.autodesk.com/index.php/s...mstrong_white/

When did this occur?
mh

[DanielBrew]

Hi Mike,

AFAIK you've always had the option to save your renders as RPFs. It's just another image file format like jpg or exr.

Dan

[RErender]

According to that article it was available atleast as far back as 2003-2004

remember back then you had to enable the same channels both in the rpf save settings and the system rollout of V-Ray?

[mikeh]

i must have gone into the twilight zone...i could have sworn i had a forum conversation about rendering to rpf and bringing the files into combustion but vray didn't render to rpf format. Oh well. never mind.
mh

[^Lele^]

And before combustion and RPF, there was paint+effects and RLAs.
Quite a similar pipelining, in fact.
I remember seeing stuff done with this method at Adesk official launch seminars for max 2.5...

[vlado]

V-Ray has always supported the .rpf/.rla formats through the 3ds Max frame buffer.

Best regards,
Vlado