.TIFF Renders and Maya 8

[pixelfader]

Not sure why but every .tiff i render out of Maya 8 with Mental Ray comes out for the most part transparent when viewed in photoshop. Open it with an imageviewer like ACDSee and no problems...Photoshop and it's got a few shadows or elements but mostly transparent...any help would be greatly appreciated...

-Pixelfader

[Jak_Carver]

you probably have an alpha map with that tiff; where did the tiff come from? did you make it or get it off the internet or...?

BTW, is it a texture your talking about?... Also, please keep in mind that MR for Maya is very buggy when using tiffs with it; seems to only be a Maya problem since tiffs in XSI are completely compatible with Mental Ray.

[pixelfader]

It's a render out of maya using Mental ray...a multi frame render i want to work on and composite, went to edit the frames and their all basically transparent.

[sunder]

I've run into something somewhat similar when dealing with PNG files. The fix for that was to open the sequence in fcheck and re-save it out. After that, miraculously, the PNG sequence opened in Photoshop with no issues. Give that a try for your tiff files.

[pixelfader]

Yup that fixed the images, thanks a bunch. Only problem now is resaving over 100 images...ugh!

[Jak_Carver]

targa usually doesnt give these problems, have you tried using targa format instead?