EMAIL: peter@table76.demon.co.uk NAME: Peter Murray TOPIC: Horror COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: One more to go... WEBPAGE: http://www.table76.demon.co.uk/POV/ COUNTRY: England RENDERER USED: Poser 4.0 Macintosh PPC TOOLS USED: POV-Ray (to create the marble texture on the wall) RENDER TIME: About five minutes HARDWARE USED: Apple Macintosh G3 300MHz Desktop IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The animated skeletons have killed all but one person. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I've just upgraded my copy of Poser to 4.0, and was practicing with it to see how it differed from previous versions. Also, I wanted a baby figure I could export to POV-Ray for my real Horror entry. I posed some skeleton figures to pretend this was going to be my entry for this round, while practicing. My "real" Horror entry (pdmgenes) looked so bad when it was done that I decided to put some more work into this image to submit it as well. So, all the objects/figures in this scene are standard with Poser. The imagemap used for the background wall was rendered with POV-Ray 3.0 for my entry in the "Elements" round. Poser doesn't seem to be able to scale or tile imagemaps as POV-Ray can. I tried to make the moon from a sphere with different shades of light grey, and a slight transparency, hoping that would blur it with distance. The transparency has had some effect, compared with earlier renders, but it's not that noticeable. As you can see, Poser uses meshes to create objects like spheres; the moon is visibly polygonal rather than circular. There's no zip file because the Poser file for this scene is 2.8Mb and the only other file I could include is the imagemap for the wall - which is just an render of the WhiteMarble texture.