"Slime" <fak### [at] emailaddress> wrote:
> > 1) When I render the picture, the image is almost completely black.  It
> > appears POVRAY doesn't work with .TIF files with alpha channels?
>
> Did you try a tif or png file without alpha channels? Could this simply be a
> gamma correction issue?
>
>  - Slime
>  [ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]

I'm pretty sure it is not a gamma correction issue.  In one of my test
renders, I placed a solid yellow sphere below the .TIF with an alpha
channel, and the planet was rendered completely yellow.

My suspicion is that the .TIF loader bombed out without an error of some
sort . . . basically when I have a .TIF file w/o alpha channel, the loading
of the .TIF file may take 30 seconds (about a hundred megabytes in size).
When the .TIF loader bombs out (alpha channel present), the loading of the
..TIF file is instantaneous.

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