Oops you're right of course. It's just that some of the bump maps offered with
Poser are very large uncompressed BMPs so that I'm used to convert them to GIF or
PNG without even thinking.
G.

Ron Parker wrote:

> On Thu, 04 Nov 1999 16:30:53 +0100, Gilles Tran wrote:
> >- bump mapping works fine. The bump maps in Poser have a mysterious BUM
> >extension but they are only BMP files (at least in the Windows version).
> >Just rename them to BMP and convert them to a povray-compatible format. You
> >may have to edit them too to increase bumpiness, otherwise it's perfect. You
> >can use alpha-channels for transparency too.
>
> BMP is a povray-compatible format if you're using the Windows version.  Just
> use "sys" where you'd usually use "tga" or "png" in the POV code.
>
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