Wasn't it woodcarver who wrote:
>hi:
>I am following the height_field tutorial "to the letter", the first part
>renders great, the second part however I get a parse error: "cannot open
>..tga file". I've tried everything that I can think of, still get the same
>error.
>I have the latest version of POV-RAY.
>It appears that the renderer is looking for a file to open, but there is no
>path for it to follow.
>Is there a way to fix this? or am I missing something?

Did you read this bit about the rendering of image.pov?

  Note: Windows users, unless you specify +FT as above, you will get a 
  .BMP file (which is the default Windows version output). In this case 
  you will need to use sys instead of tga in the height_field statement 
  below. 

Also, if you've reconfigured the output file path, you'll need to move
image.tga that you create from that output folder back into the same
folder as hfdemo.pov.

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure

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