TITLE: Untouched nature NAME: Eric van der Ree COUNTRY: The Netherlands EMAIL: eric@sg.nl WEBPAGE: none TOPIC: Landmarks COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: ericland.jpg ZIPFILE: ericland.zip RENDERER USED: Povray 3.0 TOOLS USED: HF-Lab by John Beale and The Genesis Toolkit by Joerg Schrammel RENDER TIME: almost 24 hours HARDWARE USED: PC - Pentium IMAGE DESCRIPTION: I wanted to create a nice and realistic landscape, only using pure Povray source. It had to be some more than just a heightfield, water and sky (although many beautiful examples have been made). Step by step I struggled forewards, this time helped by the Internet where I started to search and stumbled upon useful tools and includes (you find out someone already solved just the problem you are faced with !). At last I had more or less the result I wanted. You could say it is just a landscape, but for me (considering the time-consuming struggle) it is in a sense a true landmark. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: There is one 'universal' light-source, four light- sources to simulate the sunlight, ground-fog, the sky based upon an already existing one. The two small clouds around the mountain plus the one in front of the sun are halos (Povray 3.0 !). The pool is a plane with a texture found in Moray. The sun and camera-position were created using the Lens effects include file by Chris Colefax. Three different height-fields are used (the hill on the foreground, the mountains at medium distance and the ones further away). All generated using HF-Lab by John Beale and given an image-map as a texture. The tree in the foreground, near the pool and the other two further away are based upon an include file used in a scenery-file (author unknown by me). I made a modification so that every leaf has a random color within certain ranges for each tree, what made them much more realistic (one is more touched by the autumn then another). The two small bushes on the foreground were created using the Trees include file by Sonya Roberts and the butterflys above it were created using the Butterfly include file by Peter Engels. The rest of the vegetation was placed upon the right positions on the heightfield by means of the Genesis Toolkit by Joerg Schrammel. The vegetation used are from the Vegetation package include file; the pines in the back and the small bushes near the pool. The rest of the grasses I invented myself. The zipfile only contains the scenery-file and most of the include-files (together with all the used image- files would take up 10 MB).