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28 Jul 2024 18:12:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Heightfields in Moray  
From: Johannes Hubert
Date: 14 Mar 2000 17:59:35
Message: <38cec457$1@news.povray.org>
I guess he would have to scale it with -1 in the right direction, not
rotate it...

Johannes.

"Mike Weber" <mik### [at] pyxiscom> wrote in message
news:38ce9faf$1@news.povray.org...
> Rotate your height field object 180 degrees so that it is upside-down.
Then
> re-render.
>
> Does that help?
>
> --
> Mike
>
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>
> "Tommy Grav" <tom### [at] astrouiono> wrote in message
> news:38CE92ED.1A5D15F7@astro.uio.no...
> > Tommy Grav wrote:
> >
> > > Hi everybody,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to use the height field object in Moray, but I'm having
no
> luck in
> > > getting what I want.
> > > I have created a ghf using the Terrain Maker program, converted
this to
> a
> > > tga-file using
> > > LPaser. I then use the height field object with the tga-file as a
> source. Using
> > > the read button
> > > the heightfield looks quite good, but when I render it I do not
get a
> result
> > > that looks like the
> > > grid look in Moray. It seems that it just traces the lower
portions of
> the
> > > height field. I'm
> > > using a flat color, so the material should not be the problem.
> > >
> > > Can anyone help
> > >
> >
> > More investigation of the problem reveals that the hightfield is as
it
> should be,
> > so it is the read-button in the height field object that gives
something
> that
> > appears
> > to be the opposite of the actuall heightfield (high areas where
there
> should be
> > low and
> > low where the high should be). Is this a bug or am I using the heigh
field
> object
> > wrong?
> >
> > >
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Tommy Grav
> > > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > > tom### [at] astrouiono     http://www.uio.no/~tommygr/
> > > Institute of Astrophysics, UiO, No
> > > IMTU tn++t4+tg+ ru+ge++ !3i jt+au+st+ls hi++dr-so++zh-sy-sw++
> >
> > --
> > Tommy Grav
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > tom### [at] astrouiono     http://www.uio.no/~tommygr/
> > Institute of Astrophysics, UiO, No
> > IMTU tn++t4+tg+ ru+ge++ !3i jt+au+st+ls hi++dr-so++zh-sy-sw++
> >
> >
> >
>
>


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