EMAIL: howitzer@operamail.com
NAME: Timo Jousimo
TOPIC: Warfare
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: Moonlit Ocean
COUNTRY: Finland
WEBPAGE: http://www.thehowitzer.cjb.net
RENDERER USED: POV-Ray v3.1g
TOOLS USED: Moray for Windows v3.3, sPatch V1.5
RENDER TIME: 28min 41s
HARDWARE USED: Pentium 2 300MHz / 352 MB

IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Monstrous warship waits the dawn coming in calm, moonlit ocean. They don't know that they'll soon meet their destiny as the submarine sneaks silently nearby...

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:

First I want to note that this picture is very dark. If you can't see anything but the moon, you should adjust your display a bit brighter.

Tehcnically this scene is very simple. Water is just a single plane with bumptexture. Both ships are mostly primitives (submarine is below the surface of water). Hull of the warship and propellers of the submarine created with sPatch, everything else is done in Moray. Moon is simply a cylinder with moon-like texture. Lit area around the moon is nothing but a spotlight lighting the skyspere behind the moon. Stars are created with Chirs Colefax's Galaxy include file, thanks him for that.