Well, it's been a while, so I thought I'd come back to this old horse. 8)

Can SESI offer any comments yet on the likelihood of native support for this format in Houdini, and timeframe? I could handle support in mantra for the short term, but of course full support in compositing would be ideal.

If this is being considered, I would also like to point out these very cool collection of tools [scanline.ca] which are freely available [scanline.ca]. Some great implementations here of ways of looking at greater-than-8-bit images on an 8 bit terminal…

This sort of stuff would be *very* nice in Houdini. AFAIK, the OpenEXR format shouldn't have any legal issues(should it?), although possibly the original terminal display algorithms might - not sure about that…

Cheers,

J.C.

I'm pretty sure Open EXR is totally free, lots of studios seem to be adopting it for Lighting/Rendering and comp work.

I'd also like to chime in support for this idea here. Nuke can access EXR format too and I can't mention how much I'd love to get rid of those having to write all those layers into seperate files. Of course, the other option would be write pic format into Nuke, but thats not possible for many reasons right now.

Jason.


(The half data-type and some good compression sounds yummy too)