From: "Alex McLeod" To: <3DSMAX@ENGRAMDIGITAL.COM> Subject: Re: Targa Date: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 7:16 PM Bell, Ross wrote: > > When rendering frames out to a tga format how do I get or make an > .ifl file to play the frames as an animation? A couple of time I could have > sworn it did it self, but now it is not. Thanks Does nobody here remember anything from their DOS days? In a command window, try: dir /on /b mytarga*.tga >myifl.ifl The 'dir' part of it I'm sure you're already familiar with; the '/on' (O for order, N for name) sorts alphabetically (which is how you'd want your sequence to appear in the IFL); the '/b' part (B for bare) causes 'dir' to keep quiet about creation date & filesize,and '>myifl.ifl' causes 'dir' to direct its output to a new file called 'myifl.ifl'. I don't know about the DOS prompt in Win2000, but the DOS prompt under NT (though not actually DOS at all - just a DOS interface to the NT kernel) is actually pretty powerful. If you ever get stuck on a particular DOS command, try entering the command followed by /? and it'll bring up a list of instructions and options. Follow the /? with a |more if it spills over more than one screen. One day I'm sure DOS and other command-line systems will be taught alongside Latin. -- Subscribe/Unsubscribe at: http://mail.engram.net/guest/RemoteListSummary/3DSTUDIOMAX List courtesy of http://www.Engram.net