POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: How to output 8-bit Grayscale Bitmap files?: Re: How to output 8-bit Grayscale Bitmap files?

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : How to output 8-bit Grayscale Bitmap files? : Re: How to output 8-bit Grayscale Bitmap files?		Server Time 3 Aug 2024 16:21:45 EDT (-0400)

From: Glen Berry
Date: 22 Dec 2003 03:55:43
Message: <c3cduvk2t26pcbej1igg7rstifhpp4ddvq@4ax.com>

On 21 Dec 2003 06:13:38 -0500, ingo <ing### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:

>It will not work for BMP's as you cannot set another colourdepth for 
>these...

Okay, I'll just create grayscale PNG files, and convert them after the
render with a post_frame / post_scene command. I just happen to have a
command-line PNG2BMP utility. I only hope that IT works with grayscale
images.   :)

thanks,
Glen

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