Kessito

I've created an interface with a picture in pictctrl. The strange thing is that when I save the picture in photoshop as .pict, the result is very blurry i MAX, whemn I save it as .BMP, it looks good. I would really like to use .pict, since then I don't have to install quicktime on the hostmachine. Any suggestions about what is wrong?

pictctrl-blurry-with-pict-files

what makes you think BMP is a mac-format?

i have never seen anything BMP in conjunction with quicktime.

i would suggest you two options which should work well through

all platforms and versions with pictcontrol and other cycling

just use the .psd (photoshop 2.5) format, of course without

layers, because those would display not correct from time to time.

or use .jpg - dont be afraid of compressing your images 

with standard jpeg codecs. set jpg to 100% quality. 

makes the files not only smaller but also perfectly readable 

(of course, normally .pct should also work, not sure what 

what makes you think BMP is a mac-format? 

i have never seen anything BMP in conjunction with quicktime. 

i would suggest you two options which should work well through
all platforms and versions with pictcontrol and other cycling
GUI objects:

1. 
just use the .psd (photoshop 2.5) format, of course without
layers, because those would display not correct from time to time.

2.
or use .jpg - dont be afraid of compressing your images 
with standard jpeg codecs. set jpg to 100% quality. 
makes the files not only smaller but also perfectly readable 
on all systems in max runtime.

(of course, normally .pct should also work, not sure what 
your problem is here)

Thanks for the tip Roman, I'll be sure to check out the .psd and jpeg options.

I know that .bmp is not a Mac standard, but when I run my standalone (with .bmp) on a host machine without quicktime, the picture doesn't show and max reports a "reading picture -1" error in the max window, when I install quicktime on the host machine the picture shows fine, so I guess it has something to do with it.

For this project I have to be in max4 and not in 5, since it's a measurement application which has to be running on older machines, I tried it with max5, but the application is then too slow to run on them.

Thanks for the tip Roman, I'll be sure to check out the .psd and jpeg options.
I know that .bmp is not a Mac standard, but when I run my standalone (with .bmp) on a host machine without quicktime, the picture doesn't show and max reports a "reading picture -1" error in the max window, when I install quicktime on the host machine the picture shows fine, so I guess it has something to do with it.
For this project I have to be in max4 and not in 5, since it's a measurement application which has to be running on older machines, I tried it with max5, but the application is then too slow to run on them.

pictctrl blurry with .pict files