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Ken <tyl### [at] pacbell net> wrote
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> When using a "system" specific format like bmp is unto windows the correct
> format is "sys". Pov will not accept bmp "reef.bmp" as a valid command.
>
Well! Since I never use bmp I might never have known that!
Once again we see the value that having a Ken_AI.hlp file in the POVray
distribution would have.
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On Tue, 05 Oct 1999 10:00:54 -0500, Scott Stewart
<sst### [at] houstonquikcom> wrote:
><!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
><html>
>Thanks Margus. I'll give that a try, although I'm not sure where
>the setting is to "save as...." I'll have to play with paint to see if
>there is something there.
><p>Also want ot say thanks to Ken for a quick response.
>
[rest of article omitted, as it was quotation of another post]
>
>></html>
Hi, Scott. Could you please post using plain text, only? Some people use
newsreaders that do not display HTML while others, like me, have to fire up
a browser to be able to see what was written. Thanks much.
--
Alan
http://www.povray.org - Home of the Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer
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Scott Stewart wrote:
>
> Thanks Margus. I'll give that a try, although I'm not sure where the setting is to
"save as...." I'll have to play with paint to see if there is something there.
If you get desparate send me the image and I will convert it to tga for
you or at least see if I can figure out what the problem is with the bmp
format you are using.
> Also want ot say thanks to Ken for a quick response.
I am somewhat notorious around here for my quick responses. Some say
that I am an artifical intellegence that haunts these groups and I have
done little to dispell those rumors :)
--
Ken Tyler
1100+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html
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Buckaroo Bill wrote:
> Once again we see the value that having a Ken_AI.hlp file in the POVray
> distribution would have.
Yep ! Rip off that "Intel Inside" sticker off your computer and relpace it
with the "Ken Inside" sticker :)
Hmmm.... Do you really want me loose inside your computer ?
--
Ken Tyler
1100+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html
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Alen,
I checked my preferences and selected plain text. Hope it comes through
properly. I have never used news groups before and had no idea this was
a consideration.
Scott
Alan Kong wrote:
>
> On Tue, 05 Oct 1999 10:00:54 -0500, Scott Stewart
> <sst### [at] houstonquikcom> wrote:
>
> ><!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
> ><html>
> >Thanks Margus. I'll give that a try, although I'm not sure where
> >the setting is to "save as...." I'll have to play with paint to see if
> >there is something there.
> ><p>Also want ot say thanks to Ken for a quick response.
> >
> [rest of article omitted, as it was quotation of another post]
> >
> >></html>
>
> Hi, Scott. Could you please post using plain text, only? Some people use
> newsreaders that do not display HTML while others, like me, have to fire up
> a browser to be able to see what was written. Thanks much.
>
> --
> Alan
> http://www.povray.org - Home of the Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer
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Thanks Ken.
Ken wrote:
>
> Scott Stewart wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Margus. I'll give that a try, although I'm not sure where the setting is
to "save as...." I'll have to play with paint to see if there is something there.
>
> If you get desparate send me the image and I will convert it to tga for
> you or at least see if I can figure out what the problem is with the bmp
> format you are using.
>
> > Also want ot say thanks to Ken for a quick response.
>
> I am somewhat notorious around here for my quick responses. Some say
> that I am an artifical intellegence that haunts these groups and I have
> done little to dispell those rumors :)
>
> --
> Ken Tyler
> 1100+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
> http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html
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I rarely even touched upon the 'image_map {sys' before, although I seem to
recall trying to use a bitmap renamed to the *.sys extension and got various
results. I'm sure however that I had tried the various combinations, like
sys type with bmp file and bmp type with sys file. Nothing was ever
consistently right so I gave it up within a few days of trial and error.
Bob
Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
news:37FA1C07.72158242@pacbell.net...
>
>
> Buckaroo Bill wrote:
>
> > I haven't tested it or looked at the docs, but I would have wrote...
> >
> > height_field {
> > bmp "reef.bmp"
> > ^^^^^
>
> > AFAIK, unless you are using an unusual bmp (compressed or something)
it
> > should work.
>
> When using a "system" specific format like bmp is unto windows the correct
> format is "sys". Pov will not accept bmp "reef.bmp" as a valid command.
>
>
> --
> Ken Tyler
> 1100+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
> http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html
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On Tue, 05 Oct 1999 15:57:36 -0500, Scott Stewart
<sst### [at] houstonquikcom> wrote:
>I checked my preferences and selected plain text. Hope it comes through
>properly. I have never used news groups before and had no idea this was
>a consideration.
Scott, thanks for switching to text mode. Welcome to news.povray.org, by
the way.
When you get a chance you might peruse the articles posted at the
povray.announce.frequently-asked-questions group, as many of these topics
come up quite often as fr... well, you know <grin>. Also of interest there
is Ken Tyler's Links Collection, which Ken updates quite frequently. You can
also find his links on the web at http://www.povray.org/links/.
--
Alan
http://www.povray.org - Home of the Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer
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Thank you Alan. Being as new to this as I am I am now having to find
all the areas for support. Thanks for your direction.
Scott
Alan Kong wrote:
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> On Tue, 05 Oct 1999 15:57:36 -0500, Scott Stewart
> <sst### [at] houstonquikcom> wrote:
>
> >I checked my preferences and selected plain text. Hope it comes through
> >properly. I have never used news groups before and had no idea this was
> >a consideration.
>
> Scott, thanks for switching to text mode. Welcome to news.povray.org, by
> the way.
>
> When you get a chance you might peruse the articles posted at the
> povray.announce.frequently-asked-questions group, as many of these topics
> come up quite often as fr... well, you know <grin>. Also of interest there
> is Ken Tyler's Links Collection, which Ken updates quite frequently. You can
> also find his links on the web at http://www.povray.org/links/.
>
> --
> Alan
> http://www.povray.org - Home of the Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer
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Scott Stewart wrote in message <37FA07F1.8C5A5FA2@houston.quik.com>...
>Wow! What a treasure trove of POV-ray people! I have spent the last
>hour going over hundreds of messages. I still haven't found an answer
>to what you may call a very simple problem.
>
>I want to create reefs for an underwater scene. It seemed logical to
>use a height_field so I created a bitmap image to use as my height_field
>but POV-ray will not recognize the file type. I can't find a bitmap to
>targa converter. Am I approaching this all wrong?
>
>height_field {
>sys "reef.bmp"
> pigment {White}
> smooth
> translate <-.5, -1, 0>
> water_level .5
>}
Two questions:
1) Is the bitmap uncompressed, or RLE compressed?
2) Are you using POV-Ray for Windows, or another version?
Mark
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