POVRay exporting as png's?

[D_ROY178]

Trying to make shadow maps, how do I change the output file type to a bitmap (.bmp) insted of a png (.png)??

[Sandhapper]

http://www.letmegooglethat.com/?q=png+to+bmp

[Wahlamt]

Save as .pgm in photoshop. It's the ppm, pgm etc option. You'll have to enter .pgm yourself as it will suggest .ppm I think.

[D_ROY178]

Save as .pgm in photoshop. It's the ppm, pgm etc option. You'll have to enter .pgm yourself as it will suggest .ppm I think.

I was having trouble with getting read errors in game when I did that, at the time I thought it was a problem with povray exporting pngs instead of bmp, but I think I was me not rescaling the file before exporting from photoshop lmao.

I took the long way round and installed version 3.6 which exports them as bmp by default, since I couldn’t figure out how to place that code into povray that changes the output file type.

But thanks anyway

[Bradclay306]

next to the output resolution in POV-RAY, there will be a clear white box, before running a render put "output_file_type=s" in that box and the render will save as a bmp. at which point you need to then open it in Photoshop and follow the step that are in this forum post;

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6371&hilit=rendering+shadows