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Polypaint Bit Depth

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#1

Less of a problem and more of a curiosity. I recently got some nice textures from Ballistic’s Ultimate DVDs. http://www.ballisticpublishing.com/dvds/ultimate/ultimate03/ These come in raw image format and I saved them out as 16 bit tiff files and brought them into ZBrush at said bit depth. I’m curious if when using spotlight to paint these images, if the data is being stored in polypaint as 16 bit floats.

Thanks!

tylerART

#2

As far I know polypaint is 8 bit per channel. I think that textures (apart from HDR) imported into the Texture palette are converted to 8 bit - if you hold the cursor over the ‘current texture’ thumbnail it will give the total bit depth in the popup.