EMAIL: twinfire_98@yahoo.com NAME: Thorsten Hahn TOPIC: Warfare COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: FLUTEN!!! COUNTRY: Germany WEBPAGE: none RENDERER USED: MEGAPOV 0.5a TOOLS USED: WINNT 4.0 SP 6 A KEYBOARD WITHOUT WINDOWS KEYS MEGAPOV TEXT-EDITOR PSP 4.12 (JPG-Conversion) RENDER TIME: HARDWARE USED: Pentium III @ 1GHz IMAGE DESCRIPTION: "Alarm! Fluten!!!" this command is shouted through the U-Boat after the successful attack of an enemy convoi, as an destroyer approaches to take revenge for the ships which are lost and still, covered with fire, floating in the atlantic. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Although I came up with an U-Boat for my entry very soon it took me very long to decide what my image should look like. Finally after I had only one week left (and I ran out of time to create a more detailed model) I decided just to place a quickly assembled boat right in front of an firewall. Especially because I made the fireballs for this wall earlier for another image. So I created very quickly a simple scene wich looks IMHO not that bad at all. The Fire consist of several spheres (each lovingly and separately translated and rotated) containing an orange light emitting media with some turbulence. (Nothing real complicated but quite effectful) The U-Boat itself is completely made of cylinders which are intersected with each other to gain a more boat-like-look for the body. After all the whole scene was lit from behind and placed within a box filled with a scattering media atmosphere to give the scene a better and darker illumination.