POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Making objects into heightfields : Re: Making objects into heightfields Server Time
29 Jul 2024 18:18:16 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Making objects into heightfields  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 5 Mar 2001 09:17:23
Message: <slrn9a77vk.4td.ron.parker@fwi.com>
On 1 Mar 2001 06:05:22 -0500, Warp wrote:
>Chris Huff <chr### [at] maccom> wrote:
>: Also, the resolution of the object will suffer
>
>  If this is a problem, then outputting to a 48-bit png can help a lot
>(you get basically 65536 depth values instead of the usual 256).

If you use global_settings{hf_gray_16} and put +fn16 on the command line, 
POV will output a 16-bit grayscale PNG, which is slightly smaller than the 
equivalent 48-bit RGB or 64-bit RGBA file.  3.5 will assume that you wanted
a 16-bit grayscale PNG if you specify hf_gray_16, even if you had +fn8 or
a bare +fn on the command line.

-- 
Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
My opinions.  Mine.  Not anyone else's.


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