POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Height fields : Re: Height fields Server Time
10 Aug 2024 09:17:16 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Height fields  
From: Bill DeWitt
Date: 20 Jan 2000 01:08:17
Message: <3886a651@news.povray.org>
"Peter Popov" <pet### [at] usanet> wrote :
>
> You can do it in the official version but it's quite a heavier
> solution than using trace(). Convert the hf source picture to ppm,
> then use search/replace to replace all white space with commas, and
> then use the file i/o functions in POV to read it into a 2D array.
>

    Great, now I don't have to try to figure out how to do that. I knew
there must be a way, and I was looking at the file information of a TGA in
an attempt to find it...


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