POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : The Colony Ship : Re: The Colony Ship Server Time
8 Jul 2024 00:13:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The Colony Ship  
From: Stephen
Date: 14 Feb 2016 15:14:46
Message: <56c0e036$1@news.povray.org>
On 2/14/2016 7:50 PM, Sven Littkowski wrote:
> Hi Alain, not sure if I understood.
>
> You're saying, that I could use a full-color image as heightfield? Like
> the same file for texture and heightfield? But I am thinking, a texture
> that shows green meadows and brown (soil) paths through them, would give
> me the accurate heights. But maybe I am misunderstanding.
>
> Or do you mean, instead of a gray-scale image, I should use a red-scale
> image (or green-scale, or blue-scale)? Can you explain in easier words
> for me, or give me a sample image? Thanks.

I think that Alain means that you should use one of the red, green or 
blue components of your greyscale image instead of all of them. This 
will make the parsing a bit quicker. You will get the same result.

-- 

Regards
     Stephen


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