In article <3ED### [at] hotpopcom>,
 Xilo Musimene <xil### [at] hotpopcom> wrote:

> I've rendered my height field with povray, specifying I wanted a PNG 
> with 16 bit per color.  But even if my image is grayscale, povray 
> outputs a RGB image of 48bpp;  is there a way to force the resulting 
> image to grayscale instead of RGB and is there a way to read such a 
> 48bpp image for my heightfield...

Specify hf_gray_16 in global_settings and POV will generate a 16-bit 
grayscale image.


> I think this is The problem I have, I don't think bump_map has to do 
> with it... now I render the image without bump_map and the same uglyness 
> appears...

So I've been running around the source code looking for a way to fix a 
problem that doesn't exist?

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