Scott Stewart wrote in message <37FA07F1.8C5A5FA2@houston.quik.com>...
>Wow! What a treasure trove of POV-ray people!  I have spent the last
>hour going over hundreds of messages.  I still haven't found an answer
>to what you may call a very simple problem.
>
>I want to create reefs for an underwater scene.  It seemed logical to
>use a height_field so I created a bitmap image to use as my height_field
>but POV-ray will not recognize the file type.  I can't find a bitmap to
>targa converter.  Am I approaching this all wrong?
>
>height_field {
>sys  "reef.bmp"
>   pigment {White}
>   smooth
>   translate <-.5, -1, 0>
>   water_level .5
>}


Two questions:
1) Is the bitmap uncompressed, or RLE compressed?

2) Are you using POV-Ray for Windows, or another version?

Mark

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