EMAIL: bg043@lafn.org
NAME: Hugh Lim
TOPIC: Childhood
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Hatchery
COUNTRY: US
WEBPAGE: None
RENDERER USED: POVRay 3.02a.f1
TOOLS USED: GraphicsConverter 2.4.3(US): tga->jpeg
RENDER TIME: ?
HARDWARE USED: Mac PowerBook 68030/25MHz/4MB of RAM(for design and modelling)
               Pentium 166MHz/80MB of RAM(for the final render) - many thanks
               to David White for rendering the scene for me.
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Beginning of the childhood for strange creatures in a strange planet. :)

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

*SKY/MOONS - really big sphere with transparent, highly ambient texture, serving as the red/yellow clouds. moons are big spheres outside the sky sphere with yet another highly ambient texture.
*LAND - height field created from an image created by 'bozo' texture with glass-type texture
*OCEAN - i originally intended to model it after a real ocean, but decided that swamp-type-of-thing would do better. greenish ground fog was added for this effect.
*CREATURES - mostly made out of cones and spheres. they're not really modelled after anything. not as detailed i'd have liked, though.
*EGGS - had the most trouble with these. not because they were hard to model or anything, but because i couldn't make them show up! i even had them with the highest ambience possible, and they still came out black. fortunately, i didn't want them to be too bright anyway, so i just left them as is. but, if anyone figures out what i did wrong, please tell me.
*CAMERA - fairly close to the 'ground'. mostly trial-and-error to find out the position i liked.
*LIGHTING - i wanted the scene to be evening/night scene, and because of the bright land, i kept the light very dim, and there is only one of them above the eggs. green fogs helped too in keeping the scene somewhat dark.

the scene is pretty simple and if you want to duplicate any effects in the scene, you can probably see what i did from the source. but if you have any questions or comments, feel free to e-mail me at above address.