TITLE: DRAGONS OVER MINAS MORGUL NAME: Torsten Schneyer 22, Germany, Artist for DOS-Games COUNTRY: Germany EMAIL: 100.120641@germanynet.de WEBPAGE: http://www.germany.net/teilnehmer/100.120641/start.htm TOPIC: _Flight_, the Title of the Picture is DRAGONS OVER MINAS MORGUL COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: dragons.jpg ZIPFILE: dragons.zip RENDERER USED: 3D-Studio 4 TOOLS USED: The Textures where paintet with Deluxe-paint and Corel-Paint RENDER TIME: sorry, I don_t remember... :-) HARDWARE USED: I used an Pentium 133 with 40 MB RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: I love fantasypics and I love dragons... So I decidet to modell some of them. :-) _Minas Morgul_ is the name of an forgotten, dark place in the great fantasy epic _Lord of the rings_ by Tolkin. My little Picture shows some creatures, wich are overFLYING (Topic!) this legendary place. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: For my Picture I didn_t use any kind of foraign material. All textures, 3D-meshes and anything else where mady by myself! The Mountains of the Landscape where created by _ll-frac_, a PD-Landscapegenerator. I paintet the stonetexture with my own hands with Deluxe-Paint enhanced and Corel-Paint. The water is a simple cubic objekt, wich reflects the enviroment in a shiny kind and has bumpmapping, wich simulates the waves. The sky is a spheric objekt with a scanned, self-illuminating skytexture. The dragons, rocks threes in the front of the image where modelled with 3DS For the nice effeckt with the leaves of the threes I used opacy-maps... But the (in my opinion) most important and best effeckts are the fogs and the dragonfire. Believe me, when I say, that I never used any Ipas-Plug-ins for them. The precise description of my method is my secret, but it has something to do with opacy-maps, too... tsch_ss, Torsten PS: Sorry about my bad english... :-)