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  Re: Interested in 16-bit height field functions?  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 14 Dec 2009 03:39:39
Message: <4b25f9cb@news.povray.org>
"stbenge" <UN### [at] hotmailcom> schreef in bericht 
news:4b240aaf@news.povray.org...
>
> World Machine and TerraBrush use 16-bit tgas. In the version of WM I have, 
> the option for png output is not supported yet. My attempts to convert a 
> 16-bit tga to a png have not been successful; the data is still encoded 
> with red and green colors, thus resulting in a high frequency mess. This 
> probably wouldn't be true if I converted it using POV, but it's faster to 
> use IrfanView :)

WM2, which is also free (with the usual limitations) exports 16bit png 
heightfields. My latest landcape here is precisely that.

I am certainly very much interested in your functions, Sam  :-)

Thomas


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