In UVEditor with an object selected, select “Save to Bitmap” under “Viewport” - opens a standard save window - provide a filename and hit “save” – and voila!: the file is not created or saved (no error message or other failure alert).
Sys Info attached.
Rhino_Sys.txt (2.5 KB)
I first thought:
Same in here, no file created.
This is not exactly true.
When I save the file like this:
And then do the same again, there is no file to see…
…but a file was saved.
The bug is, that that file was not saved as a JPG file, instead as a PNG.
The saved file is Killme.jpg.png.
Because the filter in the Save dialog is JPG, you can’t see there is a file.
Thanks for reporting.
3 separate bugs where found that can cause your issue:
These will be fixed in Rhino 9 BETA soonish.
You can work around the bug for now by following these rules:
In my example the real path is T:\Desktop\TEST, there are no spaces.
I didn’t enter the extension.
The filetype wasn’t changed by me, JPG was set when the dialog came up.
See screenshot above.
Thanks for pointing that out.
Are you on Rhino 8.34?
Version 8 SR36
I’ve tested with a German Rhino but the Save As dialog still appears as English because I’m running an English Windows. It’s possible that there’s a localization problem. Can you take a screen shot of the open file type selection dropdown?
Don’t know about the descriptions but the order is the same as in English version.
Can you repeat the bug if you save to an empty folder?
Yes.
The cause appears to be the persistent Transparent background setting in ViewCaptureToFile. It restricts the format to png and tiff.
Can you verify this by toggling that setting in ViewCaptureToFile?
Yes, that is a good question. That definitely needs to be re-considered.
Already 4 bugs found so far on this simple feature. I wonder how they managed to hide this long.
RH-98740 UV Editor: Save to bitmap silently writes different file type
