SharkD wrote:
> "clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>> it's not very easy to tell, given the low resolution - but it is quite
>> obvious that the red channel is most significant. So I'd guess that the
>> height is coded as:
>>
>>     height = red + (green/256.0) + (blue/65536.0)
>>
>> with red, green, blue and height all ranging from 0.0 to 1.0.
> 
> I don't quite understand your math. If red, green and blue all range from
> 0 to 1, then the maximum possible height is 3. The maximum height of
> heightfields is 1.

Those maths assume red, green and blue go from 0 to 255, and height would be
from 0 to 16777216.

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