TITLE: "High Noon" NAME: Steve Paget COUNTRY: Wales EMAIL: 25ct@lineone.net TOPIC: "Epic Proportions" COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: highnoon.jpg RENDERER USED: PovRay 3.5 TOOLS USED: Wings3D for all animal/insect models, fore-front grass, branches, rocks and stones, flowers, birds, termite mounds, huts, African people and heat-haze. Gilles Trans' 'MakeGrass' Macro, Chris Colefax' 'PovHair' and Warp's 'MeshCompressor' for the mouse, Terragen, and last but definately not least, Gina's PovTree 1.5. PSP5 for conversion to JPEG. RENDER TIME: 2.5hrs@ +a0.0 setting. HARDWARE USED: win98, AMD Duron, 384Mb RAM, 600Mhz. IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 'High Noon'. Those words conjure up an image of gun-totin' cowboys, yes? Yes, but not so in this case. A young Bull elephant strides towards an ever nimble mouse in the middle of an African prairie just before noon. SHOCK! This young'un has never seen a prairie mouse before, but what to do? Move on and squish this tiny mouse? Or be VERY afraid because you're supposed to be, being an enormous elephant of epic proportions an' all...? You decide. ;) DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I first started this image modeling 'Nelly', , using Wings3d, and then built the scene around him. I tried various tricks for the heat-haze but couldn't get them to work properly, so I decided that going back to Wings was the best alternative. I used a curved torpedo shaped object for this, multiplied iirc, by hundreds, and used differing ior values that dissipated upwards in three separate models/stages. I modeled the grass in the fore-front, and the prairie grass in the background was produced using Makegrass. The fur on the mouse was fun for such a small-scale. ;) Oh, and there's one area light. Anyway, that's about it. Hope you like it. Good luck all! Steve