EMAIL: thelee@IAEhv.nl NAME: B. v. Echteld (The Lee) Topic: Science Fiction COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. RENDERER USED: Lightwave3D 4.0 TOOLS USED: Modeler3D 4.0 (for modeling) RENDER TIME: approx. 5 hours HARDWARE USED: Amiga4000 (for most modeling), Pentium-166 (rendering) IMAGE DESCRIPTION: " Project Epsilon " A dark moody building.... Somewhere an alarm tone sounds, heavy metal doors close.... Hissing sounds everywhere.....alarmlights light up.... Vague gasses can be seen swirling everywhere....... DESCRIPTION HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Been toying with displacement mapping (a la terminator 2, where the "enemy" terminator(forgot his serial number ;-) ) disquised himself as the floor, and after that smoothly "morphs" back into a person.... Anyway, after some experimenting it evolved more into a "star-gate" effect, and I toyed with that kind of scenario.....and here we have PROJECT EPSILON.. (like it so much, I'm planning to get it animated...sometime in my life that is :-D ) I started with a big square with a lot of polygons in it, about 40.000... Then messed a bit with some imagemap ideas I had, even a photo of myself...brrr...no good idea... ;-) Finally created the right map to get a good displacement, but it took quite some meddling with a lot of individual polygons to get the right look...(and a lot of starting from scratch...aaahhh...;-) ) With a lot of time & patience, & testing the proper texture for it 100s of times, the object got my "approved" stamp... Now to find a scene to put it in.....hmm....basically.... most scenes I already made didn't have the right "environment" for it..... So, I build a new environment, nosed in my collection to get the proper textures (most are my own, 1 or 2 come from Archangel's Pack - 14 (an old freeware pack to liven up webpages & textures for rendering) Then a lot of time went into getting the right lighting & camera setting.... And here we are....ready to be submitted for the IRTC, and just in time too ;-)