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6 Sep 2024 06:23:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: more on the tutoria;  
From: Ken
Date: 28 Nov 1998 15:21:16
Message: <36605AA8.C7EF0661@pacbell.net>
egloria wrote:

>  Oops I made a mistake, it was in the hieghtfield
> Demo and here is the part that I cannot find from the
> documentation:
> Now we add the height field. In the following syntax,
> a Targa image file is specified, the height field is
> smoothed, it is given a simple white pigment, it is
> translated to center it around the origin and it is
> scaled so that it resembles mountains and
> fills the screen.
>
> height_field {
>
> tga "image.tga"
>
> smooth

  I am going from memory here but if I remember
right there are a few steps at the beginning of that
tutorial where you learn to use the hf_grey_16
option. You were probably supposed to call
your pov file image.pov. That would have created
image.tga which you use for the the rest of the tutorial.

Ken Tyler


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