TITLE: Fantasy and Mystic Clothing Shop
NAME: Christophe Bouffartigue
COUNTRY: France
EMAIL: tofbouf@oreka.com
WEBPAGE: http://tofbouf.free.fr
TOPIC: Fantasy and Mystic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: cbfanta.jpg
ZIPFILE: cbfanta.zip
RENDERER USED: 

        POVMan 0.71.4


TOOLS USED: 

        Poser 4
        sPatch
        OBJUVPOV by Cliff Bowman
(http://www.geocities.com/who3d/Downloads.html)
        Crossroads 1.0 by Keith Rule
(http://home.europa.com/~keithr/Crossroads/index.html)
        The Gimp 1.2
        DAZ 3D products (http://www.daz3d.com)
        Renderosity free stuff (http://www.renderosity.com)


RENDER TIME: 

        Approximately 19 hours


HARDWARE USED: 

        Duron 600MHz (running @ 630MHz), 384 Mo RAM
        Win 98SE / Linux Suse 7.0



IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

       
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        Grand Opening Sales !!! 30% off on all stuff !!! The perfect store for
        clothing the heroes aware of their look. From the beautiful amazon who
        wants a new loin cloth, to the muscular warrior, who searches for
        an armor as beautiful as it is efficient, or to the great sorcerer
        that just went from Black to White Magic, and has to buy a totally
        new colored wardrobe, everyone will find what he's searchong for,
        at the new "Fantasy and Mystic Clothing Shop".

        New Ankh-Morpok's commercial center, 2nd Floor, between the
        "Thieves Guild Repository" and the "Magical Items Store".
        Open from dawn till dusk.
       
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        Sure, this pic is not inspired from Tolkien's fantasy.... Some of you
may have
        recognized Pratchett's style... and they are right. The starting point
is a tought
        I have almost everytime I see a "standard" fantasy picture, with
beautiful and
        (very) slightly clothed male and female warriors:
        "Where do they find their terrific (and often impractical) clothes
????"
        I've now got the answer... :)
        


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


        The walls and furnitures
        ========================
        - Wall paper (in french, "moquette murale"): 2 height fields, generated
with POV script.
        - Floor: individual tiles, using blurred reflection.
        - Pay desk: CSG (using shearing transformations with "matrix" keyword)
        - Fitting room: CSG, except for the curtains, generated with POVMan's
simcloth feature.
        - Shelves on the left: CSG, from my previous IRTC entry.

        Various objects and clothes
        ===========================
        - The cash box on the desk: CSG, with heavy use of matrix keyword. Much
more detailed
            than necessary, it will be available in the "includes" section on my
site.
        - Pens Pot near the cash box: CSG, from a previous IRTC entry
(Contrast).
        - Wizard dresses:  a Poser model (found at Renderosity), with depth
scaled down,
            converted to a mesh with OBJUVPOV, and used several times with
different textures
            and transformations (scale, rotate). Coathanger is CSG.
        - Wizard Hats: modelled in sPatch.
        - The Monokini "Handler" (?): CSG.
        - The Amazon Monokini: coathanger modelled in sPatch, exported in DXF
format, and converted
            with Crossroads into 3 POV mesh; the piece of cloth comes from a
simcloth simulation.
        - The Armor and the Dummy Model on the left: Poser models, exported into
POV mesh2 format, using
            OBJUVPOV, and CSG'd (using Megapov's solid meshes feature).

        Characters
        ==========
        - the salesman: Michael model (from DAZ 3D), with various props found at
Renderosity.
        - the female warrior: Victoria model (from DAZ 3D), with the gladiator
set (DAZ 3D as well).
        Textures for both characters are also from DAZ 3D.

        Lighting, ...
        =============
        2 light sources with smooth shadows. MegaPOV's radiosity was used, even
if it's not obvious....


        For the source, just some POV scripts are available, for study
purpose...
        No meshes or image maps are given, both for filesize and copyright
issues...