TITLE: Sunset
NAME: Marco Cavet
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: marco@cavet.de
WEBPAGE: http://www.cavet.de/
TOPIC: Sea
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: sunset1.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    MAX 3.0

TOOLS USED: 
    Photoshop for adding text

RENDER TIME: 
    29 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    Athlon-800 128MB RAM


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


I really like sunsets. And since it is a long time I've seen my
last sunset at the sea I've thought, it ist time to recreate one
with my computer. I was not going for realism, my goal was
to catch the moment.
It would be nice if someone could tell me if I failed or succeded. 



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


At first I've created the sky-background. It is an combination of an procedural
gradient map
and an image map. I used it to get a balance between maximum scalability and
maximum quality.
The sun itself is an lensflare effect which is applied to an actual light.
The water is created with an plane and two wave type spacewarps.
Most time I've spent creating the four ships. At last I've put in the stones
in te foreground and added some kind of spray effect using blurred particles.
That's all,  folks. b--)