TITLE: Sunset on Loch Ness NAME: Dale E. Cieslak COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: dcieslak@yahoo.com WEBPAGE: http://members.tripod.com/~DCieslak TOPIC: Unbelievable COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: declnm.jpg ZIPFILE: declnm.zip RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1 for Windows TOOLS USED: Moray 3.1, Photoshop 4.0 RENDER TIME: 56m 34s HARDWARE USED: Pentium 100 MHz, 2MB Matrox Millenium IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Nessie gazes toward Urquhart Castle as the sun sets over a peaceful Loch Ness, Scotland. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Using reference photos of Loch Ness, Scotland, I drew some height maps using Photoshop (Airbrush tool, white foreground, black background, 2%-5% pressure). I did some test renders to get the landscape pretty close to the real thing. I then created an image map from the height map, using browns and greens with the Colorize function, and used some filters to make it look more natural. I used the POV editor to create the atmospheric effects, like the clouds, the sun "halo"/haze, the water, and the lighting. Urquhart Castle was also created by hand in the POV editor. I created the "monster" last, using Moray to place the objects, and then turning it into a blob by hand in the POV editor. The details and textures were then tweaked until I was satisfied with them. See source files for details. I didn't include the color map due to file size. Sorry! :)