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28 Jul 2024 18:18:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Heightfields in Moray  
From: Mike Weber
Date: 14 Mar 2000 15:23:11
Message: <38ce9faf$1@news.povray.org>
Rotate your height field object 180 degrees so that it is upside-down.  Then
re-render.

Does that help?

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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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