TITLE: Castle NAME: Tony Micklus COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: tony@awmcs.net WEBPAGE: http://www.awmcs.net/artgallery TOPIC: Fortress COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: castle1.jpg ZIPFILE: castle1.zip RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1g TOOLS USED: Microsoft Image Composer to add Name at Bottom RENDER TIME: 19 Min. 14 Sec HARDWARE USED: Pentium 3 - 866MHz with 128MB Ram IMAGE DESCRIPTION: What can I say? Its the first thing I think of when I think of a fortress - A castle DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Sky - Blue Fog Clouds - Box Object w/ Bozo Pattern Mountains - Heightfield Castle - All CSG the bricks were a modified technique found in a really great tutorial found on the web (Sorry can't seem to find it again.) Flags - Wavy pattern created w/ Cylinders, Herald is a simple bitmap superimposed. Moat - Box cut out of ground then replaced with superellipsoids to create roundness. Moat Water - Crackle pattern w/ high reflection and high transmit. Guards - A hand created blob object. Trees - Created w/ Paul Dawson's ptd_tree macro. You must download the ptd_tree macro to re-render this image. (http://www.voicenet.com/~ptdawson)