TITLE: The magic dagger
NAME: Cesare Viaggi
COUNTRY: Italy
EMAIL: ceggi@tiscalinet.it
WEBPAGE: none
TOPIC: Fantasy and Mystic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: dagger.jpg
RENDERER USED: 

    PovMan 0.71.4


TOOLS USED: 

    Moray for Windows 3.3, 3DWin 3.5, Anim8or, Real 3D 3.5, Corel PhotoPaint
6-OEM, ACDSee


RENDER TIME: 

   2h 40' 



HARDWARE USED: 

    PIII 733MHz 256Mb


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

This project is mostly a study of the metallic materials and a photorealistic
illumination. 


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The medallion is a HF; the chain was created with link plugin by Chris Colefax;
the rings was modelled with Real 3D 3.5; the dagger was modelled with Anim8or.
I used blinn highlights and reflect_metallic for more realistic reflection of
the light,
one big area_light and one enviroment_sphere with the radiosity.