Not too many responses about this. I gave a 16 color gif a try and it
does have height although not obvious if the colors are near to black.
Unless white, or nearer to white, is in the gif the HF is going to be
fairly flat.

Bob

Steve <sjl### [at] ndirectcouk> wrote in message
news:37AF8B43.1B10361F@ndirect.co.uk...
> Give your Hf a texture or colour, but beyond that it's hard to
> tell without seeing all of your code.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Chuck Roberts wrote:
> >
> > I have POV 3.1g for Win 95 and am trying to render a heightfield
which
> > is a 16 color GIF. My code for it is:
> > height_field {gif "d:\progra~1\POV-ray\a-images\aztec1.gif"
> >   scale <4,4,4>
> >   translate <-2,2,0>
> >
> >   }
> >
> > But it just renders as a black rectangle. The first half of the
colors
> > in the GIF are shades of "black" (i.e. real close to black). Do I
need
> > to vary my colors in the color palette? Some of my colors are
non-black,
> > but how come I don't see any sign of those? I also have 2 light
sources
> > to make sure I see the surface of the object.
> >
> > BTW, my picture is a picture of several aztec glyphs. And I used
Paint
> > Shop Pro 3.11 (for win 3.1) to save the GIF to 16 colors.
>
> --
> Cheers
> Steve
>
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