TITLE: Surprise (Three Travelling Tarantulas) NAME: luisvaloyes COUNTRY: Colombia EMAIL: luisvaloyes@malditasea.zzn.com WEBPAGE: http://www.luisvaloyes.uni.cc TOPIC: Insects & Spiders COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: 3tt.jpg ZIPFILE: 3tt.zip RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1 for Windows TOOLS USED: -Calimax Modeller -POV-Ray -EditPad -Pbrush -IrfanView -Jans Formati 8 RENDER TIME: 11 min 18 sec ( 00' 01" for parsing and 11' 17" for tracing ) HARDWARE USED: AMD K6, 32 Mb RAM, running Windows 98 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: So you decided to buy some smuggled bananas instead of legally imported colombian bananas? well, there is a surprise for you, in fact there are three big surprises walking to you ...(it's a true story, it happened to the friend of a friend...) I don't know if a big spider could survive a long travel inside a box, and I also don't know if the spiders in my scene are oversized, so don't make any comments about those aspects... DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 1. Modelling : This scene contains only primitives and a couple of lathe objects, most objects were modeled using Calimax Modeller. The spider was made using 60 spheres, including seven for each foot, the bananas use a couple of lathe objects, some cylinders and a sphere for each one, and everything else consists of boxes, lathe objects, spheres and some csg. 2. Textures : The scene uses mostly procedural textures, I used image maps for the floor, the walls and the box with my name/website, and bump maps for the floor and the walls (all those images were created using Pbrush and edited/converted with IrfanView), everything else has procedural textures. Layered textures were useful to give a dirty look to the floor and the objects in the scene. It was useful that the spider was made of spheres, so I could give a procedural texture to each sphere and I did not need any image map for the spider. 3. Scene : The objects for the scene were put together using EditPad, I made some test renders with PovRay before I got the final scene that I wanted. 4. Image : POV-Ray rendered the scene as an 800x600 .bmp file, and I used Jans Formati 8 to make the .jpg file. This scene is very simple, but if you have any doubt you can take a look at the source... Notes: 1. I know this is not an impressive scene, it's just that I did not submit anything for the previous two rounds and I just wanted to return to the competition, anyway this scene is just a little joke, so don't take it too seriously... (my best scene till today got a poor 25th place, so I don't care if I don't win... but I hope I'll get a 24th place) 2. The zip file contains all the source for this scene including the .gif files that I used for the image maps and bump maps, if you have any comments or suggestions about this source, just e-mail me. 3. You could NEVER find tarantulas with your legally imported colombian bananas, a scene like this could only be possible with some smuggled fruits from God-knows-where, so say NO to smuggling, and buy only Colombian bananas. ( not kidding, people here need the money )...( and I'm not in banana's bussiness... )