Particles and bitmaps only?

I was going through an older brief tutorial on particles by eyeon using Fusion 6.

So with the pEmitter selected, under Style, and selected bitmap. I loaded a jpeg sequence and of course nothing. I guess I thought "bitmap" just meant "image" in general. My bad. So I converted them to bmp's and it's all good.

My question, why only bitmaps, why not pngs, tiffs or jpegs for use in the pEmitter?

Thanks,
Chris

Hi Chris - jpegs, png's etc should all work too, so I'm unsure as to what would go wrong on your side. Can you display the loader OK in the viewer? Is it just with a sequence if it doesn't work?

Hi Chris, I tested it with random .jpg files I had on my computer and some I downloaded from google and it works fine for me.

Maybe the files are damaged or corrupted

Thank you both for the reply. I am going to start fresh and see what happens. It must be my image was corrupted or something.