Haha, I sent this just as Karl's reply was coming. It is still a constraint in 
the public version.

I'm all for lifting the constraint... I was always of the opinion that 
multi-part should be fully general subimages and not have any required 
commonality.


> On Jun 9, 2016, at 3:35 PM, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Ah, ok, I must be remembering a restriction from an older version.
> 
>       -- lg
> 
> 
>> On Jun 9, 2016, at 3:20 PM, Andrea Solis <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Larry Gritz <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> I'd never heard or thought of the multipart UDIMs. That's a neat idea, I'm 
>> sure we can make that work somehow. It seems in that case that you want to 
>> give it the one and only true filename (no translation necessary), but then 
>> have the UDIM tile select a subimage ("part", in EXR terminology). I think 
>> that if we build this into maketx somehow, it can also add an attribute into 
>> the header that identifies it as a UDIM file.
>> 
>> IIRC, OpenEXR multi-part files are not allowed to have differing resolutions 
>> for the parts. Is this not a fatal flaw here? Or in practice is that not a 
>> problem for you? I would have thought that allowing the different "tiles" to 
>> have differing resolutions (higher res for tiles corresponding to large 
>> pieces of the model, etc) would be typical for UDIM practice. No?
>> 
>> 
>> At one time there was a requirement that only the display windows were the 
>> same, not necessarily the resolution of the data.  So prior to calling the 
>> 'exrmultipart' command, we used 'oiiotool --fullsize' to set all display 
>> windows to that of the highest resolution in the file set.  But then that 
>> requirement was lifted, at least as of version 2.1.0 we no longer have to 
>> set the display windows equal.  From this doc:
>>     http://www.openexr.com/TechnicalIntroduction.pdf 
>> <http://www.openexr.com/TechnicalIntroduction.pdf>
>> 
>> "An OpenEXR file may contain multiple independent images or “parts” with 
>> different sets of image channels, resolutions and data compression methods."
> 
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