jaysonfire wrote:
> I'm new to povray, and I'm trying to do what I hope is a fairly basic scene.
> 
> I'm trying to get povray to help me produce GIF files from the combination
> of a PNG and a background color.  The idea is to generate printable
> versions of png images I'm displaying on a website.
> 
> I've set up povray with the background color, the png viewed from above, and
> the ambient light source, and I'm converting the resulting TGA file into
> GIF.
> And it works, but it's coming out a bit darker than the image as rendered in
> my browser, and I'm not sure what to do to get the povray version to look
> the same.
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Jay

Are you using an assumed_gamma in your global_settings block? AFAIK, the 
default display_gamma set for POV-Ray is 2.2, if you don't use 
assumed_gamma, the images, if used with ambient 1 diffuse 0 and no 
lightsource, will look a little different. In any case, assumed_gamma is 
probably the cause and looking into it might solve your problem, for me, 
using assumed_gamma set at 2.2 often solved that kind of problem when 
using POV-Ray as a compositing tool instead of a renderer. :-)

Regards,
Tim


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