TITLE: d Pause
NAME: D.D.
EMAIL: Densz@prontomail.com
TOPIC: Frozen Moment
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: dpause.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Pov-Ray for Windows v3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    Spatch, Hamapatch and Formati9(for conversion to jpg)

RENDER TIME: 
    09h 09m 50s

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 200Mhz

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


The journey to the halfway point of his destination took a few hours on foot.
Exhausted from the long walk, the young knight began to rest for a moment.

As he began on his walk again, the grounds began to tremor and the sky
darkened.
Shaken by the movements on the grounds, he couldn't believe what he saw next.
The grounds began to shift from left to right, upwards and downwards in blocks
and odd shapes as if they have become alive!

'What manner of magic is this?' thought the young knight nervously.

From the heavens above, a shrieking cry could be heard. Like a flash of
lightning,
a beast, a dragon, descended upon the young knight. With its open sharp claws,
the dragon began to breathe out fire from its mouth, striking it at the young
knight but suddenly.........


Elder brother: "PAUSE??????!!!!! Now where did I put that remote?"(As he
searches
frantically for the video remote, he hears some laughter in the background.)
"HEY!
Stop playing with the video remote and give it back to me."

Younger brother: "NO."

Elder brother: "And why won't you give it back to me, pray tell me?"

Younger brother: "Umm...errm..OH! It's because I wanna watch my cartoons NOW."

Elder brother: "Well you can watch them after I finish with this movie. This
video is going to end soon. Now give the remote back to me......please?"

Younger brother: "You said that an HOUR ago... and my answer is still NO."

Elder brother: "Oh come on... I 'promise' it is going to end soon... Pretty
please....."

Younger brother: "Hmm... ok....BUT you have to catch me if you want it back.
HAHAHAHA....."

Elder brother: "Why you..."(He begins to chase after his younger brother across
the room...)

Younger  brother: "MOMMY.....! MOMMMMYYYYYY.....!!!"(as younger brother runs to
the safe haven of the kitchen where mommy is busy cooking lunch, while clutching

tightly on the video remote in his hands.) 

Will the young knight be able to kill the menacing dragon in the movie and
save the kingdom from the evil wizard so he can finally marry the beautiful
princess....OR will elder brother get the video remote from his younger brother
before he reaches the arms of mommy dearest in the kitchen? My guess is that
we'll just have to PAUSE for a while......



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


The models are done in Spatch. Textures are then applied using Hamapatch.

The sky texture uses a plane with bozo. The grounds are done by placing 2 sets
of the same ground Spatch model together. The first one just uses agate
textures
while its copy uses Clear and bozo textures. Both are scaled to 6.438. A dark 
patch is placed in the grounds so that the sky won't be seen through them. The
dragon textures are made up of agate and crackle and the wings beneath are just
gradient.

The flames are made up of 4 sets of the same copy of Spatch model. There is the
main flame that uses yellow pigment. The rest uses yellow, red and blue 
reflection with Clear. But the flames coming out from the dragon's mouth
towards
the shield just uses agate with gradient. The knight and sword uses a silver
from the metal.inc.

There are 5 lights to the scene. 3 point lights(2 on the dragon and 1 on the
knight). A spotlight is placed from the dragon's mouth to the direction of the 
knight(for the flames). And finally an area light placed near the PAUSE word.
:O)