TITLE: Brave the Elements NAME: Sean Hamilton COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: Sean_Hamilton@amrcorp.com TOPIC: Elements COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: shwater.jpg ZIPFILE: shwater.zip RENDERER USED: POV Ray 3 TOOLS USED: Moray RENDER TIME: 5 hrs, 37 Min, 35 s HARDWARE USED: Pentium 166 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Well, I know I'm going to get flamed for 'relation to topic' on this one, but I just couldn't help it. My 'inner jester' took over and made me do it. I tried to think of an image about the elements, and all I could think of was 'fire' and 'water'. hmm... 'fire-water'! The image is in the vein of a magazine advertisement. A crystal decanter and shotglass, containing some unholy liquid, in front of a mirror with the name of the liquor and their slogan. Please place tongue firmly in cheek before viewing. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I used Moray for all object and texture creation. All objects in the foreground (decanter, shotglass, liquids, mirror, countertop, walls, etc) are my own creation. Objects reflected in the mirror as 'background' objects were found on 3D Cafe's website (bookshelf, pooltable, fireplace, curtain). Lighting was the tricky part. I wanted to achieve a dark, rich bar room feel, but still manage to keep the text on the mirror readable. I ended up creating two light bulbs made of glass textures and placing point lights inside them. Similar to a heat-lamp shaped bulb. This allowed me to restrict light flow without having to use spotlights. The room is made up of 6 planes, 4 walls, a ceiling and a floor. I needed these to reflect enought light from the point lights to light the scene. The floor has an un-seen dark green carpet texture, the ceiling is a slightly reflective brass. The walls are wood textures layered with a modified and enlarged 'brick' pattern to get the 'paneled' look. The green marble countertop is my own texture from scratch. The decanter and shotglass are modified crystal and glass textures. On an interesting note: The addition of the pool table, barstools, fireplace and bookshelf pushed Moray's resource usage to 96%. One of these days my processor is going to catch on fire rendering this stuff. I'm personally proud of this image and I had a lot of fun making it. For those keeping track, this is my second entry in IRTC, my first was the New World image. I think I've made some progress in the past months, but I still think I should probably get off my butt and read a book on how to do all this stuff. Enjoy!