In article <3cd6e6d7@news.povray.org> , "PovRAY" <cbd### [at] my-dejacom> wrote:

> I'm actually using povray 3.1 but perhaps this applies to the new beta too.
>
> The documentation for "Field Rendering" says that line numbering in pov
> starts from 0 and that by default it outputs an EVEN field first. This
> suggests that in the first output file out001.tga it is the TOP line and
> following alternate lines which contain the useful data, with the other
> lines beneath being duplicates.
>
> However using povray 3.1 it seems that my out001.tga file has the
> line-below-the-top which contains the useful data, and the line immediately
> below is a duplicate. This looks like the ODD field is first (if you count
> line numbers from 0).
>
> Is this a bug? And does the beta behave like this?

Line numbering in POV-Ray starts from zero for historic and compter graphic
standard reasons.  However, as in hardware (and any non-CS use) counting
starts from one, lines are of course counted from one in this respect...

    Thorsten

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