TITLE: Mistic CircleCOUNTRIES: UK & Ireland NAME: Edward Dixon EMAIL: edward_dixon2001@yahoo.com WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/edward_dixon2001/ TOPIC: Fantast and Mystic COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: mistic.jpg ZIPFILE: mistic.zip RENDERER USED: MegaPov 0.7 TOOLS USED: hamaPatch 2.4 RENDER TIME: 3 minutes 58 seconds HARDWARE USED: Pentium III 600mhz IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Three cowled figures holding staffs stand around a mysterious fire whose flames cast an eerie purple light on the surrounding stone circle. The night is overcast, and a ground fog blanks the ground. High above the strange dead "trees" surrounding the circle rears the apparition they have gathered to summonse: an elder god, taking monstrous form. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Almost all "solid" objects (cowled figures, stones, "trees", monster) were modelled in hamaPatch, then exported as POV files and textured using procedural textures or simple pigments, through hand editing of the POV files. The sky is a simple textured sky sphere. The fog is a simple POV ground fog, while the fire is two concentric spheres to which "media" effects have been applied. There is a terrain below the fog, consisting of a height field, itself generated from a seperate render.