From: Greg Ercolano <erco@(email surpressed)>
Subject: [Q+A] Maya 7.0 trouble writing out files other than iff?
   Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:07:37 -0800

	A customer wrote me today:

> have you heard any reports of maya 7 rendering trouble while rendering anything but iff files?
>
> it errors out every single time with all file types other than iff with different errors,
> tif files give a half-error and then maya crashes; tga crashes and doesn't give an exit signal
>
> the behavior never changes; i've thrown about 2,000 frames of each against [both our render farms]..


	I was about to respond I hadn't heard of this,
	but he wrote on to say after looking at the release notes for Maya 7.0.1,
	this problem was fixed:

> "• [Rendering] Fixed a problem with being unable to render to any format other than iff."

	So if you're encountering trouble writing out tgas and tiffs with Maya 7.0,
	try the 7.0.1 update.