TITLE: Distant Shores NAME: Christoph Gerber COUNTRY: Switzerland EMAIL: ni.chri@bluewin.ch WEBPAGE: http://www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?ByArtist=Y&Artist=gerberc TOPIC: Future COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: dshore.jpg ZIPFILE: dshore.zip RENDERER USED: Megapov 0.7 TOOLS USED: Photoshop 5.0 Limited Edition for jpg conversion RENDER TIME: approx. 2h 30min HARDWARE USED: Pentium IMAGE DESCRIPTION: In a very distant future mankind will travel to the stars and discover many spectacular places in the universe (at least if we have not extincted ourselfs long before that time). May be this is one of them. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: First the terrains (beach.pov and hills.pov) were made and a good viewpoint selected. The rest was basically an exercice in lighting. I came up with one main light (the sun), one fill light for the landscape and one fill light for the planet using the lightgroup option. Additionally I used low quality radiosity. The following include files were used: - rock.inc by John van Sinckle for the stones - nkflare.inc by Nathan Kopp for the sun flare - galaxy.inc by Chris Colefax for background nebula The image maps used are from http://www.3dtextures.fr.st/