Hi tracers!

Finally, after 15 weeks of cumbersome 16bit HF pixeling (425,000 pixels
placed manually!), I got together the first small slice of southern
Kandahar province, covering an area of 10.795 by 25.4 kms.

Then after battling with a texture bitmap at a 10 times higher
resolution (4,250 by 10,000 pixels) which even under Linux brought my
system to the verge of crashing (while editing with the GIMP, I had to
use several layers), I started to render the first views of the scenery.

There is also the question whether smooth pigment/texture transition on
a HF can be done procedurally rather than with such huge bitmaps, but at

the moment, this is not the main problem.

Instead, as you see in the images attached here, whenever I used
"smooth" with the HF, strange shadows appeared where no shadows should
be at all... without "smooth" they disappear (see images with a 'b' in
their filename).

Is there a way to avoid this - or is it just a bug with which I've to
learn to live?

See you in Khyberspace -
http://home.arcor.de/yadgar/khyberspace/index-e.html

Yadgar

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