EMAIL: bobhayes1@aol.com
NAME: Bob Hayes
TOPIC: Science Fiction
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: Pov-Ray 3.0 for Windows
TOOLS USED: Micrografx Designer, Coral Xara, and Photoshop for texture and bump
map creation.
RENDER TIME: About 3 hours
HARDWARE USED: 486 66 w/ 16megs RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
This is an image of Dash Rendar's "Outrider" in a docking bay on the planet
Tatooine.  Dash
Rendar is a character from the book, "Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire" by Steve
Perry.
The "Outrider" is an ebony Corellian YT-2400 frieghter.  This ship, like the
more
famous "Millennium Falcon" (an older Corellian YT-1300) is used for smuggling. 
Dash
likes his ship to look good, much of the hull is highly polished and the
"Outrider" exterior
shows little of the modifications made under the hood.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
The ship was modeled by hand after making a rough sketch on graph paper.  I used
Micrografx
Designer and Corel Xara to create the texture and bump maps for the ship. 
Photoshop was also
used on the maps and to make the landing bay height field image.  The cockpit
took a while to
figure out how to do it with CSG, but I'm very happy with the results.  The ship
is one object
and I plan to use it in some animations in the future.