TITLE: All my Love NAME: Bill Marrs COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: bill@apocalypse.org WEBPAGE: http://www.apocalypse.org/~bill/ TOPIC: Elements COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: ring.jpg ZIPFILE: ring.zip RENDERER USED: Povray for Windows 3.0.2 TOOLS USED: Moray v3.0.1 for windows (modeling), Lviewpro (signature + jpeg) RENDER TIME: 1 hour 10 minutes 6 seconds HARDWARE USED: Pentium 100, 64MB IMAGE DESCRIPTION: All my Love A idealistic image of an engagement ring. The image has 3 elements in it. Diamond (Carbon), Gold (the ring), and the tines connecting the diamond to the ring are made of platinum (common practice for strength). DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The ring was created entirely within Moray. The diamond is CSG: a cone with geometric cuts made in it at 45 degrees and 60 degrees. Moray's "duplicate" feature was very useful. I was able to make one cut, then rotate that around the cone to make 7 other similar cuts. Then this was done again to do the other angled cuts. The textures were all basic, taken from the standard POV textures, I did modify the "Shiny_Orb" color of the diamond to be more white and less blue. Simple gold and silver were used for the ring and tines. The lettering was a bit tricky. First, I created a single letter and re-centered it via wrapping it in a CSG by itself (which POV complains about), then I once again used Moray's duplicate feature to embed the letters in the ring in a uniform manner. I changed the letters to say something inane, then made a CSG difference of it (cut the letters out of the ring). The lens flare was achieved via Chris Colefax's lens effects include files. I used the "star" effect and reduced the intensity to .5 . FILES IN THE ZIP FILE: ring.pov - POV scene file exported from Moray ring.inc - POV textures file, exported from Moray ring.mdl - Moray file lens.inc - Chris Colefax's include file, with my settings lnsefcts.inc - Chris Colefax's other include file Brushsci.ttf - Cursive True Type font used for lettering ring.txt - This file