EMAIL: steve@g7mrp.demon.co.uk
NAME: Steve Attwood
TOPIC: Science Fiction
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray 2.2
TOOLS USED: Display 1.87b, Paint Shop Pro 3.12, Cyber Sculpt 1.1, 
            Corel Draw 3.0, Degas Elite, 3D2POV 1.8.
RENDER TIME: 3 hours 47 minutes 
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 60MHz 8Mb RAM, Atari 520STFM 2.5Mb RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Title: 'Cruiser Attack' - A squadron of interceptors 
                   attack a pair of battlecruisers in a desperate attempt to 
                   stop them attacking a supply convoy. 

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

All the spacecraft were modelled using the Cyber Sculpt package on the Atari
ST first. Only one interceptor was created, including one 'laser blast', but
two cruiser models were required, as one has had an explosion added to it's 
upper side. 

The .3D2 files were then copied onto the PC, and converted into smooth
triangle .INC files that could be used by POV-Ray by the 3D2POV conversion
program. 

Textures were then created using a variety of paint packages, which are 
tileable and code (image maps) was added to the .POV file generated by the 
3D2POV program to apply the textures to the surface of the spacecraft. A grey 
scale 'tile' was also applied (as a bump map) which is just a number of 
overlapping grey blocks to give the impression of irregular surfaces and 
bolt-on panels.

The .INC file for the interceptors was copied three times, and alterations to 
those .INC files was made to rotate and translate them into the position in
the scene required. Copies were also made of the laser blasts and moved into
position in the same way.

A sphere was added for the background, and using a .GIF file for stars, and 
a number of layered textures (agate pigment) were used which have transparency 
as part of the colour maps, so the background has the effect of plasma and gas 
clouds, as seen in 'Babylon 5'.  

The image was finally rendered, requiring a 6Mb swap file and nearly 4 hours 
to raytrace with anti-alaising set to 0.3.

A copyright message was added using Paint Shop Pro, and the image was converted
to JPEG format using Display 1.87b with the quality set to 99%.

Steve-----> 
19th October 1996
This is image can also be seen among others at my WWW Gallery:-  
http://www.g7mrp.demon.co.uk/dwsteve.html