artlantis rendering resolution

[Anonymous]

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?

[stefan]

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.

[Anonymous]

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