TITLE: 100 feet below NAME: Victor and Alexander Widell COUNTRY: Sweden EMAIL: vicce.was@home.se WEBPAGE: hem.passagen.se/gfxparadise TOPIC: Sea COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: 100_feet.jpg ZIPFILE: 100_feet.zip RENDERER USED: povray 3.1 TOOLS USED: Moray, sPatch, Photoshop RENDER TIME: 1h, 49min HARDWARE USED: Pentium II 300 MHz, 64 Mb ram IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A scientific submarine exploring the neighborhood of a small oceanic colony. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The submarine is made in Moray with CSG, using over 300 primitives! The fishes, stones, jellyfishes and plants were modeled in sPatch, then improved and textured in Moray. For the background, I used an heightfield that I copied, rotated, scaled and sprinkled over the scene. The atmospheric effects comes from a simple constant fog, the light beams from the spotlights are just faked with semi-transparent cones. I would like to make the sub's window transparent, but I do not have the skill needed to create a human driver. NOTE! The scenefile included is in the "Moray for win ver 3.2" file- format. FINAL RENDERING TIP: This is a tip for users of Povray under Windows 95/98: To reduce noise and electricity cost in the night of final rendering, include these lines in your favorite render settings file, (ex: c:\program\POV-Ray for Windows v3.1\renderer\quickres.ini) and the computer will turn itself off when the rendering is finished: 800x600, TurnOff Width=800 Height=600 Antialias=On Antialias_Threshold=0.3 Post_Frame_Command=C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL.EXE user.exe,exitwindows Remember to change settings when you do not want the computer to be turned off! For more information about the ini-file settings, check the Povray documentation.