TITLE: none NAME: Michael Miller COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: blackmariah@techie.com WEBPAGE: http://blackmariah.visations.com TOPIC: Spectacular Landscapes COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: mm_lands.jpg RENDERER USED: Lightwave TOOLS USED: Lightwave 7.0 RENDER TIME: Appr. 30 minutes HARDWARE USED: AMD 500 Mhz/ 192 MB RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A rocky cliffside above a beach. Or something like that. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Since I wanted to do something different I forced myself to do this whole thing in Lightwave. I'm used to the way that 3d Studio Max works, so the culture shock was enormous. I found that the procedural texturing capabilities of Lightwave are astounding, as well are the volumetrics. The only image map used for this was the heightfield used to generate the hills. Everything else is procedural. The bushes are HyperVoxels, probably the best little volumetric thingy ever. Sky was built in Lightwave Skytracer stuff. I was really surprised how well this turned out, especially since I didn't sit down to make anything in particular.