POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : Problems with height_field : Re: Problems with height_field Server Time
30 Jul 2024 22:28:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Problems with height_field  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 24 Sep 2001 22:25:59
Message: <slrn9qvqpq.f7.ron.parker@fwi.com>
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 00:56:38 +0200, Bonsai wrote:
>This gives the error: File Init Error: Cannot open output file
>
>This error occurs with all file types POV-Ray can do. After commenting
>out the "hf_gray_16" in the global_settings it renders fine.

See the thread titled "hf_gray_16" in this newsgroup for more information.

>Second thing:
>
>POV-Ray does not accept PNG-Files as input file for a height_field. It
>gives the error: Parse Error: Unknown image type in image_height_at.
>
>This has also an effect on the rerendering of the insert menu images.
>The image for the height_field+image_map in Menu Insert/Shapes. This
>doesn't render too.

This is broken for TIFF, too.  It should be fixed in the next beta.

-- 
#local R=<7084844682857967,0787982,826975826580>;#macro L(P)concat(#while(P)chr(
mod(P,100)),#local P=P/100;#end"")#end background{rgb 1}text{ttf L(R.x)L(R.y)0,0
translate<-.8,0,-1>}text{ttf L(R.x)L(R.z)0,0translate<-1.6,-.75,-1>}sphere{z/9e3
4/26/2001finish{reflection 1}}//ron.parker@povray.org My opinions, nobody else's


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