TITLE: City of the Ancients NAME: Nigel Briggs COUNTRY: England EMAIL: NBriggs@energis.co.uk WEBPAGE: http://mudhole.spodnet.uk.com/~jinx TOPIC: Imaginary Worlds COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: ancients.jpg ZIPFILE: ancients.zip RENDERER USED: PoV-Ray 3.x TOOLS USED: Visio (CAD-package) RENDER TIME: HARDWARE USED: P233 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Appearing out of the mist, the high walkways and slender stairwells climb up into the clouds of a cold, desolate world. Who built this place, why and where did they go? I cannot answer that, I can only imagine... DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Scene was mapped out in Visio, with different colours for the various levels. Decided to split the scene into 10 include files, 5 for the "platforms" and 5 for the "steps". Tried to get the scene looking "right" with area_lights, but in the end went for radiosity, and a large white disc with a high ambience... Tried a few different textures (stones, metals, etc), but none of them looked right against the backdrop. In the end, I settled for this monotonous grey, to offset the green atmosphere... Spent the next few days just "tweaking" bits here and there. Particularly the foreground steps and platform.