TITLE: MB_Deserted
NAME: Matthew Bolton
COUNTRY: US
EMAIL: le_officer@iname.com
TOPIC: Ruins
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: mbdesert.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    trueSpace4.3

TOOLS USED: 
    trueSpace4.3, DarkTree

RENDER TIME: 
    83 min. @ 1024x768 resolution

HARDWARE USED: 
    P2 350, 64 MB Ram

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

I started this project hoping to use a very low poly count and make it come to
life using the DarkTree procedural texture generator.  Mostly, I have
succeeded, that is until it came to the little tree and the ground plane.  I
probably spent the most time working on scene arrangement and lighting and I'm
sorry to say, I'm still not completely satisfied with the way it turned out,
but I don't know if I ever would be.  I can't say enough about how versatile
and useful DarkTree was to me on this project.... everything is textured using
DarkTree procedural textures.  I used the sun flare option that is available in
trueSpace 4.3 to further the illusion of a rising (or setting) sun.  The sky is
a background image, also rendered with DarkTree. I spent the better part of all
my free time for the past 3 or 4 weeks on this project, and thanks to the
critiques of my wife as well as the constructive criticism of my good friend
Billy, it finally is presentable.