EMAIL: bobziens@nc.rr.com
NAME: Bill Bobzien
TOPIC: Fortress
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Ruined Fortress
COUNTRY: USA
WEBPAGE: 
RENDERER USED: Bryce 4
TOOLS USED: Paint Shop Pro 5
RENDER TIME: 6 hrs 29 min with Superfine antialiasing
HARDWARE USED: P166, 96 MB RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

A ruined fortress sits atop a hill.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

The hill is a terrain object, created within Bryce's Terrain Editor.
The fortress is a terrain, with bits and pieces lopped off or added with 
Boolean operations. I drew the terrain in Paint Shop Pro and applied a 
slight Gaussian blur to it, then imported it into Bryce. I grouped it with 
a series of negative primitives (to create the arched entryway, the window 
slits, and to remove a large chunk of the right-hand tower) and some negative 
and neutral Stone objects (to create the irregular breaks in the walls). The 
sky and clouds were created in the Sky Lab by modifying a sky preset (the
moon image is also a feature of the Sky Lab). As for texturing, as usual I
started with Byce presets and modified them. The fortress texture started off
as a modified Stonewall texture (darkened); I then created a moss texture
in the Deep Texture Editor and blended it with the Stonewall using a fractal
alpha texture. The two main textures are in World space while the fractal
texture is in Object space. Finally, since the moonlight was behind the
fortress I added a radial fill-in light with Cast Shadows disabled.