TITLE: "Midnight Snack" NAME: Steve Roughton COUNTRY: US EMAIL: zode@uswest.net WEBPAGE: http://www.zode.com TOPIC: Night COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: roughton.jpg RENDERER USED: Ray Dream Studio 5.01 TOOLS USED: Vueprint RENDER TIME: 51 min 56 sec HARDWARE USED: Gateway G6-266 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: His friends told this poor android not to go out on the moors at night, but alas, he did not believe them. Now he's robot soup. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: No bitmap textures were used in this image. I created the background forest using the Tree Druid extension for Ray Dream Studio. The glow around the boat lamp is a semi- transparent sphere. The boat's hull combines a marble function and spot function to make the hull appear aged and covered with creepers. The snake's texture combines a cellular function to form its scales, and a large-scale wood grain function for its bottom plates. The eye is a sphere with a black wire function forming the slit pupil. The water combines dark blue and green in a marble pattern to simulate a dark pool clogged with algae. Most of the android's body parts are warped spheres or cylinders, except the chest plate which is a free-form object. I connected the android's limbs using Ray Dream Studio's "link" feature so that moving one body part moves the joints accordingly; eg. moving the hand bends the arm at the elbow and shoulder. The snake's lower jaw is linked to its upper jaw in a similar fashion.