POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.msdos : Cann't get BMP file output? : Re: Cann't get BMP file output? Server Time
28 Apr 2024 23:25:50 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Cann't get BMP file output?  
From: Ken
Date: 14 Nov 1999 22:50:20
Message: <382F80AE.AAA8AE95@pacbell.net>
Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> 
> In article <382F53BD.90BF161E@ttu.edu.tw> , Jerry Jeng <jen### [at] ttuedutw>
> wrote:
> 
> > I can get TGA output using +FC or FT, PPM using +FP, PNG using +FN.  But
> > when I use +FS, I still get a TGA output file. Does anyone know this
> > problem?
> 
> The +FS switch is for _system specific_ image formats (as explained in the
> documentation). If there is no system specific image format supported, the
> default Targa output is used.
> 
>    Thorsten

Just to add to what Thorsten has said:

The .tga format has always been pretty much the defacto standard for the
MSDos version while .bmp is a Windows specific format.

You can use any standard dos image convesion program to convert the tga
to bmp without any loss of image quality afterward.

-- 
Ken Tyler -  1200+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
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