topic Re: artlantis rendering resolution in Collaboration with other software

artlantis rendering resolution

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:25:28 GMT

I am new to art.lantis and am having some trouble getting a high resolution rendering. I understand that it always renders at 72 dpi and that you just make the total pixel number greater and then shrink it down until you get the dpi you need.

However, when i set the pixels to anything over 800 vertical and horizontal the file doesn't seem to write. I can see it rendering, but when it is done the file it created is way to small (3 kb or so) and cannot be opened.

Does anyone know what i am missing?

Re: artlantis rendering resolution

ci-JoshOs — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:49:03 GMT

It sounds like you are a little confused about resolutions, but it definitely should be working over sizes of 800x800. I regularly render 3000x3000 images and higher withough problems.
Are you using Artlantis 2, and do you have the latest hotfix?

Re: artlantis rendering resolution

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:16:58 GMT

http://artlantisobjects.com/html/resolution.html

Re: artlantis rendering resolution

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:12:14 GMT

thanks for the link, but that's the part i figured out already. it's when i try to bump up the pixels to 3,000 x 3,000 the file doesn't write.

I'm working at my school and i believe they have the student version of art.lantis (not sure exactly how that relates to the official version). I'd assume they have downloaded it and done nothing else in terms of set up, so any add ons have not been installed.

what is the latest hot fix and what does it do?

Re: artlantis rendering resolution

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:50:35 GMT

Well, student version might have a resolution limit.

Re: artlantis rendering resolution

Djordje — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:54:15 GMT

I have rendered 15000x10000 (yes, site billboard) and it went well ...

What matters is the pixel count. Size in inches times required dpi equals pixels. That's all there is to it.

Student version might have the size limit. Anyone from Abvent knows?

Re: artlantis rendering resolution

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:29:16 GMT

gordo wrote:

However, when i set the pixels to anything over 800 vertical and horizontal the file doesn't seem to write. I can see it rendering, but when it is done the file it created is way to small (3 kb or so) and cannot be opened.

Does anyone know what i am missing?

Hello Gordo,

Can you please explain more about this problem?
You make a rendering over 800x800 pxl and the file is not saved?
Is that so? What is the file format choosen?

Alain Picard
Abvent

Re: artlantis rendering resolution

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:32:27 GMT

Djordje wrote:
Student version might have the size limit. Anyone from Abvent knows?

Hello Djordje,

The Student version is not limited.

Have a nice day.
Alain

Re: artlantis rendering resolution

Djordje — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:38:19 GMT

Picard wrote:
The Student version is not limited.

Thought so. Thanks for the confirmation!

Re: artlantis rendering resolution

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:45:15 GMT

yes.

today i was able to go over 800 x 800 but not consistently. the other times i got only an unknown file type icon with a long series of numbers and letters for the file name different from what i put in for the rendering to be saved as.

i have been saving the renderings as jpegs.

Re: artlantis rendering resolution

stefan — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:50:21 GMT

Might work better if you choose TIFF or TGA.

I have had some occasions where file extensions were mixed up. I was not able to find a systematic problem though.

FWIW, when Artlantis is generating movies, it temporary renders all images to TGA and only compiles them together in the end. This has saved some of our students, who crashed during final compilation of the movie file. Luckily the TGA's where still there.

And temp renderings are also TGA, so I assume this is the native default Artlantis format. Try that first and convert to JPEG afterwards. It's not good to render directly to JPEG in the first place, as you already loose some of the pixels during the JPEG compression.

Re: artlantis rendering resolution

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:04:40 GMT

gordo wrote:
yes.

today i was able to go over 800 x 800 but not consistently. the other times i got only an unknown file type icon with a long series of numbers and letters for the file name different from what i put in for the rendering to be saved as.

i have been saving the renderings as jpegs.

When rendering Artlantis always generates a targa, once the targa is complete QuickTime will change the file format jpeg tiff if so. When a render can't go till the end the file partially calculated stays in targa.

Alain Picard
Abvent