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  Re: height_field texturing problem  
From: Tim Nikias v2 0
Date: 2 Apr 2003 08:09:32
Message: <3e8ae10c$1@news.povray.org>
But wasn't it Slime who found this sort of behaviour in
the source-code of POV and tried to fix it? That's
what I was referring to.


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Tim Nikias v2.0
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>
> > This is related to the normal-bug inside the heightfield's
> > algorithm. They aren't transformed properly at some
> > point, and AFAIK, there is no fix for this which solves
> > the problem in every case.
> > You'd have to use either the heightfield with smooth, or
> > look into the include files for some macro named
> > HF_Square (I think), which will generate a mesh which
> > should look like the heightfield.
>
> From the information given there is no way you can reach any such
conclusion
> and thus should not make such a statement.
>
>     Thorsten
>
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