POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : File formats for height_fields : Re: File formats for height_fields Server Time
11 Aug 2024 09:17:32 EDT (-0400)
  Re: File formats for height_fields  
From: Bob Hughes
Date: 5 Oct 1999 17:36:06
Message: <37fa6f46@news.povray.org>
I rarely even touched upon the 'image_map {sys' before, although I seem to
recall trying to use a bitmap renamed to the *.sys extension and got various
results.  I'm sure however that I had tried the various combinations, like
sys type with bmp file and bmp type with sys file.  Nothing was ever
consistently right so I gave it up within a few days of trial and error.

Bob

Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
news:37FA1C07.72158242@pacbell.net...
>
>
> Buckaroo Bill wrote:
>
> >     I haven't tested it or looked at the docs, but I would have wrote...
> >
> >  height_field {
> >  bmp  "reef.bmp"
> > ^^^^^
>
> >     AFAIK, unless you are using an unusual bmp (compressed or something)
it
> > should work.
>
> When using a "system" specific format like bmp is unto windows the correct
> format is "sys". Pov will not accept  bmp "reef.bmp" as a valid command.
>
>
> --
> Ken Tyler
> 1100+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
> http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html


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