TITLE: Droid terror, 2041 NAME: Gilberto Ficara COUNTRY: Italia EMAIL: g.ficara@linuxpratico.com WEBPAGE: http://velenux.oltrelinux.com/ TOPIC: Warfare COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: gf_dread.jpg RENDERER USED: Blender 2.20 TOOLS USED: Blender 2.20, Gimp 1.2 RENDER TIME: About 5 minutes @ 1600x1200 HARDWARE USED: AMD Athlon 550MHz, 256mb ram and Trust Easy Scan 9600 (for some textures) IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A dramatic view of a combat scene between droids and... who? what? We'll never know. Maybe... :) DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: That's not a good moment for a "Warfare" topic. Sick coincidence. But. The life (like a show) must go on. And 3d is part of my life. I always wanted to model a droid, but the modeling difficulties kept me away from that image. So, in a particular moment of my life, without Internet connection and telephone, I started modeling this scene. The droid model took about 4 days of intense work (4 hours sessions, I think...), but the most part of the working time (20-30 days, not-so-intense work...) was spent on texturing, illumination, atmospherical, laser, particle effects, camera-positioning and z-blur plugin setup. The modeling was principally based on extrusion and spinning. I also used some skinned curves converted to mesh. The smoke on the ground is a simple fog layer with cloud texture applied, the smoke on the big gun and the smoke from the wasted droid are particle systems with halo-textured material. For the lasers I followed a tutorial from the Internet (don't remember the URI, sorry, use search on Blender forums with "laser" keyword) and used a straight line subdivided, with halo material applied to. Most of the texture are imagemaps scanned and remaked with Gimp. I hope we'll never need war anymore. Peace is the word. G.F.