A while ago I made some POV code to turn a 2meg color tga (made by POV) into a
256 color palette pcx. This was for the old Quake2 game.

I used this in a mac to save the file:

   #local Tc=Image_Width * Image_Height;
   #for(a,0,Tc-1)
    #write (Mfile,uint8 Image[a])// The image array contain Integers<256
   #end
I had no problems, as the Image_Width & Image_Height where rather small 400*400.

Lately I tried to use the same code to save a much larger image array
(2048*1024)
The Image just didn't work. After going through the code a dozen times looking
for bugs. I decided to try and make the POV crash on purpose.
So I tried this.

   #local Tc=Image_Width * Image_Height;
   #for(a,0,Tc)//--- notice the change------
    #write (Mfile,uint8 Image[a])// The image array still contain Integers<256
   #end
POV didn't crash !?  And the image worked!!

To see what the output was I saved the Image array into POV file as an Named
array and ran that file to see if the array would work.
 neither of the codes above made a good array with out a lot of tweeking.

Not satisfied I tried this:

   #local Tc=Image_Width * Image_Height;
   #local a=0;
   #while(a<Tc)
    #write (Mfile,uint8 Image[a])
    #local a=a+1;
   #end
Everything worked as expected!!

So what ya think?

I've got:: POV version 3.7.0.RC7.mevc10.sse.win32 running on an winXP.

Have fun!!

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