TITLE: Hostage NAME: Bob Franke COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: bfranke2@home.com WEBPAGE: http://www.geocities.com/bob_franke/pov/pov.htm TOPIC: Fortress COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION JPGFILE: hostage.jpg ZIPFILE: hostage.zip RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 3.1g for Windows 95/98/NT TOOLS USED: Cliff Bowman's OBJuvPOV program, Keith Rule's Wcvt2pov, Chris Colefax's Trimap macro, Gilles Tran's MakeWall macro, Poser4, Baumgarten Enterprises for the lizard model, PhotoShop, PhotoStyler, Lview Pro for jpeg conversion and copyright note. RENDER TIME: 5hr 50min HARDWARE USED: generic Pentium-III w/ 256 MB RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: For me it is a tourist held by the local rebel forces. He could be a captured CIA spy or someone waiting for trial after being arrested for drug transportation. It could also be a metaphor of a Vietnam Vet trapped by his own guilt. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The floor, back and left walls are height fields. Pov was used to create all height fields and image maps. They were modified with PhotoShop and PhotoStyler. Noise was added to the plaster height field and low spots were added to the floor for the puddles of water. Gilles Tran's MakeWall macro was used for the right wall and the floor in the hallway. The old wood texture was done with a POV created image map. This same texture was re-scaled and used for the man's hair. Media was used to create the shaft of sunlight. The model for the lizard was converted for POV with Keith Rule's Wcvt2pov. After posing, the Poser4 data was exported as a Wavefront OBJ file. Cliff Bowman's OBJuvPOV program was then used to convert this to an include file for use with Chris Colefax's Trimap macro, to do the UV mapping. To save space the height fields, image maps, Poser include file and the lizard are not included. The height field for the floor is included. The POV files for the HF's and IM's are included. Other credits: Jaime Vives Piqueres for sharing his source code on his web site. He has great examples on how to create plastered brick walls. Thanks to the folks at the povray.binaries.images news group for a few good suggestions. Well that's about it. Good luck to all.