TITLE: SB_SWORD NAME: Sylvain BOUTRY COUNTRY: FRANCE EMAIL: babouche13@yahoo.fr TOPIC: Fantasy and mystic COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: sb_sword.jpg ZIPFILE: sb_sword.zip RENDERER USED: POV-RAY 3.1g WIN TOOLS USED: SPatch, Paint Shop Pro (JPEG conversion) RENDER TIME: (Anti-Aliasing 0.3) 1 h 20 min HARDWARE USED: ATHLON 900 Mhz, 256 SDRAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: I really like Fantasy. And I expect lots of Excalibur-like swords in this round. I just wanted to broke the stereotype of the "magic-sword-in-a-magic-stone", by placing a sword in an other kind of base, while a starry night... DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I used POV-Ray (CSG) for the majority of the image (99%). I just used SPatch for the middle part of the sword (I add the .spt file in the zip file). The light around the sword is a media. The trees have been made with the great Gilles Tran's macro MAKETREE. And the grass has been made with MAKEGRASS. You can find these two macro here : www.oyonale.com The toilet is a free model found here : www.povworld.de. I modified it after.