TITLE: Alakran NAME: Luis Valoyes COUNTRY: Colombia EMAIL: luisvaloyes@malditasea.zzn.com WEBPAGE: http://www.luisvaloyes.cn.st TOPIC: The Wilderness COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: alakran.jpg ZIPFILE: alakran.zip RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1 for Windows TOOLS USED: Blob Sculptor, POV-Ray 3.1 for Windows, Crossroads, Corel Photo House 1.0 RENDER TIME: 21 min. HARDWARE USED: AMD K6 MMX, 32 Mb RAM, running Windows 98 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This image presents a nocturnal view of 3 scorpions, at some african desertic area. I wanted to make something with scorpions just because I like those animals, and after a Discovery Channel's program this idea came to me. In my country, Colombia, people use the word "Alacran" to say scorpion. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: This image is my first POV-Ray work, and just contains two different objects, the scorpion and the stone. 1. OBJECT MODELLING: The scorpion and the stone were modelled using Blob Sculptor, and although the program exports POV files, I exported the objects as .raw objects and converted them to POV using Crossroads just because I did not like the way they looked when I exported them as POV blobs. 2. SCENE COMPOSITION: The scene was created using POV-Ray. I saved the POV files generated by Crossroads as INC files, so I just had to call the objects in the final POV file, then I placed them in the space and put a plane as the floor. I tried several textures, and when I found I did not like any, I modified several to create the ones I used here, and some more, all the textures used here are grey, the brown look is given by the light. 3. RAYTRACING: The image was generated by POV-Ray, as a 800x600 image using anti aliasing. It took just 21 minutes to render. After that I used Corel Photo House to add the caption and save the image as a JPG file. The source files include the .pov and .inc files that I used to create the image, including all the textures. Note: If you need the .dxf version of the scorpion, please e-mail me. There is a link to the Blob Sculptor page at www.povray.org, in the links section.