EMAIL: zelonka@globalserve.on.ca NAME: Ben Zelonka TOPIC: Science Fiction COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. RENDERER USED: povray 3.0 MS-DOS TOOLS USED: TexMagic v.94 RENDER TIME: 6 hours 54 minutes 54 seconds HARDWARE USED: Pentium 133Mhz 16Mb RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: "Kirk's Nightmare" The Enterprise has been boarded! Life support is failing and the intruders have reached the bridge. There's nothing you can do as the unknown assailant- his face covered by an environment suit- raises his weapon and fires... DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The Space Suit was designed to be fully articulated, each joint placed relative to the last. Example: joint 2 of a finger is rotated into the desired orientation, translated the length of joint 1, then rotated identically to joint 1. This means you don't have to worry about lining up joints manually, you just need to keep all of the rotations matching (or you could use String Identifiers to control all the connected rotations at once). The Bridge is made up of several CSG templates based on my "official" blueprints, the halos and lighting were mainly trial and error though.