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The BITMAP_TYPE nomenclature is used for bump_map, image_map,
image_pattern and material_map. HF_TYPE is used for height_fields. Over
time I think the documentation has gotten somewhat scrambled with
respect to current functionality.
bump_map:
http://wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:Bump_Map
height_field:
http://wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:Height_Field
image_pattern:
http://wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:Image_Pattern
image_map:
http://wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:Image_Map
material_map:
http://wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:Patterned_Textures#Material_Maps
We sometimes mark BITMAP_TYPE | HF_TYPE as optional when I believe from
3.7 onward it is everywhere optional. When specified, this is the file
type POV-Ray will try and read no matter the filename given or the
output file type.
Our docs often specify the filename as "bitmap.ext" or "bitmap[.ext]"
except for height_fields where it is "filename". I think "filename" is
best because that string needs to be the filename POV-Ray looks to read
no matter format.
If the user has not specified an explicit BITMAP_TYPE | HF_TYPE, POV-Ray
will first look for any known extension in the "filename" string. If
found, that extension is the image format POV-Ray will try and read.
Where the filename has no recognizable extension and BITMAP_TYPE |
HF_TYPE has not been specified, POV-Ray will try and read the "filename"
as whatever the current output image format is. Only the image_map
documentation mentions this latter behavior.
There is too in some documentation - material_map for example - this note:
"Note: Earlier versions of POV-Ray allowed some modifiers before the
BITMAP_TYPE but that syntax is being phased out in favor of the syntax
described here."
which probably we can drop. At least for the modifiers I tried before
BITMAP_TYPE, I got parser errors in 3.7 and 3.8.
Bill P.
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