TITLE: Torres (Towers)
NAME: Txemi Jendrix
COUNTRY: Bilbao, Spain
EMAIL: tji@euskalnet.net
WEBPAGE: http://home.dencity.com/tji
TOPIC: Fortress
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: torres.jpg
ZIPFILE: torres.zip
RENDERER USED: 

Megapov 0.7

TOOLS USED: 

Moray 3.3, sPatch 1.51, Hamapatch, The Gimp.


RENDER TIME: 

Time For Parse:    0 hours  2 minutes   0.0 seconds (120 seconds)
Time For Trace:    0 hours 11 minutes  21.0 seconds (681 seconds)
Total Time:    0 hours 13 minutes  21.0 seconds (801 seconds)


HARDWARE USED: 

AMD Athlon 600 Mhz with 128Mb Ram.


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

No time this time for large expositions or spanish translations.
There's a place called Bomka in the heart of Africa, in the middel of the
desert, where an ancient fortress has been discovered. Technicians talk about
this discover as a result of a dunes movement that has revealed three towers
of the fortress (which lay beyond).
The image shows the moment they were accidentally discovered by a turistic
flight.
I hope you like it.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THE IMAGE WAS CREATED:

The scene was composed as it follows:
The towers are only one made with hamapatch, as an experiment.
Exported it to Moray, thru' sPatch.
In Moray I planned the scene, create the two references of the tower and
textures
and began with the ground. I tried a heightfield (I'm not good with this), with
a bicubic patch created in hamapatch, and finally end with a heightfield
pattern
in Megapov (following H.E.Day code posted in the newsgroups, and the comments
of
the people who saw the image there, thank you all)
The sky is a skysphere with a gradient color map and a plane with a filtering
material.
The aeroplane was made in Moray, and it's pure CSG. It's intended to give the
scale 
to the image, and some contrast too.
The lightning is made with one pointlight.
It has been rendered using antialiasing.
I finally used The Gimp to convert from png to jpg and to add the title and my
signature.
Everything is inside the zip file
        
    That's all, folks. 
    
   Txemi Jendrix Inspiriens 2001