TITLE: Role-players
NAME: Jason Smith
COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: jps6860@yahoo.com
TOPIC: Fantasy & Mystic
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: js_rpg.jpg
ZIPFILE: js_rpg.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.1

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray 3.3, sPatch

RENDER TIME: 
    40m 19s

HARDWARE USED: 
    Athlon 600

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


A typical role-playing session being held in the basement.  The participants
have taken a break to get more pizza before they storm the castle.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


Coming up with a good idea for this round was harder than I though it would be. 
The first object I made was the sword.  The blade was modeled in sPatch then
exported to Moray where I did the rest as CSG.  Then I got stuck.  I couldn't
come up with a decent setting for the sword that I felt was within my ability. 
With only a few weeks to go, I finally came up with my current idea.  

The rest of the objects are made from CSG in Moray.  The book and cup objects
are from my fortress entry with a few modifications and the idea for the empty
pizza box came from a friend.

The textures are pretty simple with a few exceptions.  The walls were textured
using Jeff Lee's brick tutorial
(http://www.shipbrook.com/jeff/raytrace/bricks.html).  The pizza box label came
from some clip art I found on the web.  I put together a little scene for the
picture on the books (the source for this is also included in the zip).  The
papers on the table are scans of some old Dungeons & Dragons characters and
maps that I had laying around.

If I had a little more time I would have liked to do another image or two to
make some fantasy type posters for the walls.  Although, with the bare walls it
does give a dungeon like feel.

The Moray files can be found in the zip as well as the pov files as exported by
Moray.  Due to size I did not include any of the image maps.