TITLE: One more to go...
NAME: Peter Murray
COUNTRY: England
EMAIL: peter@table76.demon.co.uk
WEBPAGE: http://www.table76.demon.co.uk/POV/
TOPIC: Horror
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: pdmskels.jpg
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.