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28 Jul 2024 18:17:31 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Heightfields in Moray  
From: Mike Weber
Date: 14 Mar 2000 18:21:25
Message: <38cec975$1@news.povray.org>
That's what I thought - but the last I worked with HF (today) I tried that
and it change the value to something like 0.000001 - not -1

--
Mike

wk: mik### [at] pyxiscom  www.pyxis.com
hm: mwe### [at] sciticom  www.geocities.com/mikepweber


"Johannes Hubert" <jht### [at] mailacom> wrote in message
news: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
> >
> > wk: mik### [at] pyxiscom  www.pyxis.com
> > hm: mwe### [at] sciticom  www.geocities.com/mikepweber
> > www.geocities.com/mikepweber
> >
> > "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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