TITLE: Halloween at RayDreamr Castle NAME: Raydream aka DanM COUNTRY: US EMAIL: irtccomp@raydreamr.8m.com WEBPAGE: http://www.swcp.com/~danm TOPIC: Halloween at Raydreamr Castle COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: rayhllwn.jpg RENDERER USED: All in RayDream Studio TOOLS USED: none, other than Ray Dream Studio (NO EXTENSIONS) RENDER TIME: 12 hours 35 minutes HARDWARE USED: Pentium 300 - 160 Meg IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Welcome to RayDreamr Castle! It it Halloween night and some of the "former" occupants of the castle have arrived merely to look around. You may wonder if this was the best day to enter the place :) Ha ha ahaa ha HA Halloween! DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: This image was created entirely in Ray Dream Studio... Although I have almost every extension available to me, none were use, save the excellent extensions created by Eric Winemiller. All modeling was done in RDS, a few accesories (witches hat, Cauldron and broom were appropriated from the RDS CD (to save time, since most everyone else had a year to prepare, I only learned of this contest on October 8th. This pic was the effort of 13 days of work (my final output filename was Halloween13h.bmp. As I neared the end of producing this image, RDS was crashing at least once every 5-10 minutes... I saved often... I am hopeful Carrara will eliminate this problem :) Ilove the cheaper software, but still desire it to work without crashing so much :) ------ There are many models involved in this picture... it is probably obvious that Poser played a part in the production, howevre, few "pure" pose models were use, almost all of them were convertd to MFM (mesh form) models and manipulated to meet the needs of this scene. Rails, railing, lanterns (torches) were created in the FFM (Free-form modeler)... most of the other structures were created with primatives, and booleaned to make them look like they appear in the image you see. Volumetrics were created using Light cones, Light spheres (very minimally) and Aura effect. Some fog was used for smoke above torches, and the "tail" of the ghost. a version of this pic as it appeared 2 weeks ago is available for viewing at: http://raydreamr.8m.com click on the NEWSTUFF link :) Thanks. Dan