POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Height fields : Re: Height fields Server Time
10 Aug 2024 09:15:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Height fields  
From: Chris Huff
Date: 19 Jan 2000 20:57:54
Message: <chrishuff_99-F65263.20582319012000@news.povray.org>
In article <38866311.10D78D0B@global2000.net>, Andrea Ryan 
<ary### [at] global2000net> wrote:

> Is there any way of finding the height of a height field at a given
> point?

Not without a patched version. The usual method is to use MegaPOV and 
the trace() function, I think this is explained well in the 
documentation for this patch.
MegaPOV is available at http://nathan.kopp.com/patched.htm

-- 
Chris Huff
e-mail: chr### [at] yahoocom
Web page: http://chrishuff.dhs.org/


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