TITLE: Emergency Box NAME: Brendan "HollyKing" Van Horn COUNTRY: United States EMAIL: hollyking@lords.com WEBPAGE: http://home.gvi.net/~awulf TOPIC: glass COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: emerbox.jpg RENDERER USED: Caligari trueSpace 2 TOOLS USED: Paint Shop Pro v4.12 HARDWARE USED: P90 32MB RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This my first foray into the world of raytracing. I got the idea from everyone complaining about glass causing such a strain on their system. I remembered old Warner Brothers cartoons where an box containing a banana peel would "conviently" be present in the forest so Bugs Bunny could trip up other characters. I replaced the banana with a SIMM module to give that extra bit of RAM to render a glass filled image. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: First I created a red metal cube and then hollowed out the insides to be the box. Next came the addition of the cover to hold the plate of glass to the box surface. The lettering was added using the Verdana TrueType font through trueSpaces lettering objects. Finally, I created a simple plane and painted it with a procedural wood texture to be the paneling the box is hung from. I have to admit that the SIMM module wasn't originally mine. I got it from Caligari's support pages where someone had donated it. The original SIMM module was EXTREMELY detailed (3.4MB COB file)! My poor system did not have enough memory to raytrace the image. I reduced the module by rendering the PCB board in one step and using that as a texture map around a simple plane in the final image. Also the lettering on the chips in the original was cut out of the plastic container. Again I rendered just the chip faces and used the image as a texture map on the final SIMM module. With the reduced size (only 1.1MB now) I placed the SIMM module in the box. The last step was to place one light above the box to light it. Two dimmer lights are placed below the box on either side to make the sides and bottom of the box visible. Well that's pretty much it. I'll say thank you now for your comments because prizes not withstanding my reason for entering is to improve my skills.