Illustrator files in texture Channel

[Adam Trachtenberg]

AFAIK Cinema has never supported the use .ai files in materials.

[Brian Jones]

maybe you are thinking about loading in an .ai file and using the imported spline in the Spline Shader?

[Svenja Frahm]

no, i am not… i just tried it again in R10 and it works fine.
I create a new material and load my illustrator file (cs4) into one of my texture channels and it works.

But I tried it in version 9 yesterday and it didnt seem to work in there as well… or cs4 ist just too new for release 9 to work… will test it again with an ai file saved in a lower version tomorrow.

But still – it used to work in R10 and now its gone…

[Adam Trachtenberg]

Does it render correctly in r10, or do you just see it in the viewport? It would be very peculiar if it works, as Cinema doesn’t support *.ai files in textures generally, and it doesn’t support any *.ai files above version 8 — at least officially!

[Svenja Frahm]

here a screenshot of my test in R10:

it is an illustrator cs4 file and renders fine!

Here the same thing in R11:

I agree that when importing ai files as splines, i would have to save them in version 8 in order to work…

Anyway, that’s not the point… i cannot load any ai (or other vector format) file into a texture Channel in R11.

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Just for fun i’ve just tried to use an ai version 8 file in R10 and i get the same result like in R11 with any ai file…. black texture.
so maybe it was a lucky coincident that cs4 files worked in R10?!

[Adam Trachtenberg]

Very weird. I would report it to Maxon tech support and see what they say.

[Brian Jones]

maybe it’s using the preview image embedded in the file?

[Svenja Frahm]

probably… but why does R11 not do it the same way?

mmmh might drop maxon an email then..