On 1/8/2018 6:22 AM, Jim Holsenback wrote:
> On 1/7/2018 12:38 PM, William F Pokorny wrote:
>> The BITMAP_TYPE nomenclature is used for bump_map, image_map, 
>> image_pattern and material_map. HF_TYPE is used for height_fields. 
>> Over time I think the documentation has gotten somewhat scrambled with 
>> respect to current functionality.
>>
>> bump_map:
>>    http://wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:Bump_Map
>>
>> height_field:
>> http://wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:Height_Field
>>
>> image_pattern:
>>    http://wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:Image_Pattern
>>
>> image_map:
>>    http://wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:Image_Map
>>
>> material_map:
>> http://wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:Patterned_Textures#Material_Maps
>>
>> We sometimes mark BITMAP_TYPE | HF_TYPE as optional when I believe 
>> from 3.7 onward it is everywhere optional.  When specified, this is 
>> the file type POV-Ray will try and read no matter the filename given 
>> or the output file type.
>>
>> Our docs often specify the filename as "bitmap.ext" or "bitmap[.ext]" 
>> except for height_fields where it is "filename".  I think "filename" 
>> is best because that string needs to be the filename POV-Ray looks to 
>> read no matter format.
>>
>> If the user has not specified an explicit BITMAP_TYPE | HF_TYPE, 
>> POV-Ray will first look for any known extension in the "filename" 
>> string.  If found, that extension is the image format POV-Ray will try 
>> and read.
>>
>> Where the filename has no recognizable extension and BITMAP_TYPE | 
>> HF_TYPE has not been specified, POV-Ray will try and read the 
>> "filename" as whatever the current output image format is. Only the 
>> image_map documentation mentions this latter behavior.
>>
>> There is too in some documentation - material_map for example - this 
>> note:
>>
>> "Note: Earlier versions of POV-Ray allowed some modifiers before the 
>> BITMAP_TYPE but that syntax is being phased out in favor of the syntax 
>> described here."
>>
>> which probably we can drop. At least for the modifiers I tried before 
>> BITMAP_TYPE, I got parser errors in 3.7 and 3.8.
> 
> i'll follow up when i have more than a few moments ... which hasn't been 
> very often lately

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