TITLE: Ruins on the Beach NAME: Time Trek COUNTRY: Italy EMAIL: REMOVED TOPIC: Ruins COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: cstlruin.jpg RENDERER USED: 3d studio max TOOLS USED: 3d max for modeling, textures in photoshop RENDER TIME: 3 minutes or so? HARDWARE USED: pentium 3 at work (during working hours ;) IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This is a castle on the beach at night, after the kids left. Nobody's around, the sky is dark, and the contrast between night and day (children playing, very lively / nobody around) makes the scene even creepier. See the leftovers that were left... In the distance you can see the end of the gulf with the lights of houses etc. This is similar to the view from my childhood's summer house in Sardinia. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I really would have liked to spend more time on this however they started giving me work to do!!! Well another time perhaps. Anyway the only thing to explain here is the castle, first I made the basic structure, then with booleans created some kind of stairs on one side, made holes for the windows etc., now the interesting part, to create a sand look (hard! didn't come out that well) I created boxes with 3 or 4 layers of xyz noise on them (progressively smaller) and used a boolean to subtract them from the castle after having rotated them in order to cut off just a little bit of the structure. I finished this 2 weeks ago and had no time to work on it, so what the heck, here it is it's getting too late. I like working on glass and smooth surfaces better, what will the next topic be??!?