TITLE: Hang Time
NAME: Ron Gow
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: rgow@lanset.com
TOPIC: Frozen Moments
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: hang_rg.jpg
RENDERER USED: 

    PovRay 3.5


TOOLS USED: 

    Terragen (w/ Waterworks plug-in), Poser 4, Poseray
    Paintshop Pro 7 used for textures and conversion to .jpg


RENDER TIME: 

    Terragen: 37 min 28 sec
    PovRay: 5 min 41 sec 


HARDWARE USED: 

    Pentium IV 1.8gz
    512 mg RAM



IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

    Morning constitutional indeed! 72 feet down, and the water is 54 degrees! 
    I'd better get a towel and some start hot tea!  What in all of Zarquon's 
    left hind pocket was he thinking!?!?
    


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

    Background is Terragen with surf done with Waterworks plug-in, foreground 
    is POV.

    Some of the entries in the last round convinced me to take another look at 
    Terragen, but it still doesn't let you import models so its rather limited 
    in functionality. It does GREAT skies though!  While you can export the 
    terrains it creates, you can't export it's nice textures, so I was left 
    rendering the landscape in Terragen & using it as a background.

    I spent most of my time with both POV & Terragen open, trying to match 
    camera angles and lighting.  About 25 terragen renders later I finally 
    figured out to set the gamma the same on both, then it all finally clicked 
    & I got this background.  Quite satisfied with the way it looks.

    Using it in POV was more complicated, I had to go back into Terragen and 
    render a view from the left to make a "sideground?" to get the reflection 
    in the window, and also to provide the proper colors for the radiosity.

    The castle is all CSG with boxes & prisms. The stonewall texture is a 
    upgraded version of the one I used in my "loneliness" round entry. The 
    hardest part was getting the color of the railing to match the stones.

    Swandiver done in Poser, converted with Poseray. Textures are my own.