TITLE: Homestead
NAME: Ron Gow
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: rgow@lanset.com
TOPIC: Desert
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: home_rg.jpg
RENDERER USED: 

    Pov-Ray 3.5


TOOLS USED: 

    QtPovEditor, Wings3D, PlanetGenesis
    GIMP for signature & conversion to .jpg


RENDER TIME: 
    1 hr 13 min 15 sec
    


HARDWARE USED: 

    Pentium IV 1.8gz
    512 mg RAM



IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


    For Sale. Rustic hideaway cabin, removed from urban noise. Surrounded
    by nature, fantastic view.  Small but airy. Well ventilated and dry.
    Roof in need of some repair, good project for handyman type.  As is.



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Sky and atmosphere is a gradient mapped sky_sphere aided by some fog.

Terrains are all height_fields created with planetGenesis 1.3, a simple
but highly functional terrain generator.
( available at: http://planetgenesis.sourceforge.net/ )

Rocks are made by intersecting randomly rotated height_fields also created
in planetGenesis, and placed using trace().

Grass is a mesh generated by a macro that applies it to the terrain using
trace().

Shack is CSG with height_fields for the brickwalls.

Circling buzzards are made with sphere_sweeps and randomly placed with a
while() loop.

Cactus and thistle looking weeds modelled in Wings3D, exported as mesh2
objects then applied to the terrain with trace().

Wagon wheel is CSG, borrowed from my "Old Technology" round entry.

Lighting is mostly a point light sun, and a faint secondary point light
opposite to provide some color in the shadows, with several light_groups
in the foreground to highlight objects and give me better control over
contrast. Tried radiosity but the results weren't worth the render time.
The secondary point light gave me much the same effect with no noticable
increase in render time.

Textures are all POV procedural by me, except the brickwalls which are an
image_map. Landscape textures are a project I had worked on sporadically
prior to the start of this round, but this topic gave me the incentive to
finally get it to a usable state, and I learned a LOT about POV texturing
in the process.

No source, sorry, its a mess. It's mostly Wings meshfiles and large .png
files from planetGenesis anyway, not much to see. If anyone's interested
in any of it e-mail me.

Good luck to all!