EMAIL: robsampson@sprynet.com NAME: Robert Sampson TOPIC: Science Fiction COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. RENDERER USED: Imagine 4.0 for DOS TOOLS USED: AcadR13 solids modeler, Vista Pro 3.1, Photopaint RENDER TIME: Total approximately 5 hours HARDWARE USED: Zeos P90, 40 meg ram, 2.6 gig drive space IMAGE DESCRIPTION: "Ambush" is an image I created in two days using models I had made from previous renders. It depicts the ambush of a walker by two antigrav tanks on a far off moon. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The ringed gas giant was created in Imagine using the gas giant texture, the two suns were created by applying twinkle texture to flat discs. This image was then back dropped into Vista Pro where after working on the cmap colors I took a render of Olympus Mons. This image was then given a slight blur for effect and the Mons Dem file was exported as a dxf to Imagine where I worked on the textures to get it close to the background. I then took the antigrav tank and walker I had previously created and textured in Imagine in about 40 hours of time and placed them on the dxf ground and lit the scene with a shadow casting light. Lights built into the tanks give the dished section the greenish glow.