Ian Bishop <i.b### [at] engunimelbeduau> wrote:
> Is there a way to store the depth/range of each pixel - i.e. its
> distance from the camera - into an output file? This can be done in, at
> least, older versions of Alias/Wavefront software and the .rla format is
> set up to retain pixel depths.

This isn't available in the official version, though you can fake it
by using all white textures and black fog, or by applying a black and
white gradient texture to everything (use ambient 1 on the textures
when using these techniques, and remove all lights).

Or you could use MegaPOV, which has a "depth" post process filter that
outputs the depth information into a separate grayscale image.
MegaPOV is available here: http://nathan.kopp.com/patched.htm


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