TITLE: The Combat
NAME: Hector J. Gonz_lez
COUNTRY: SPAIN
EMAIL: hjginiesta@navegalia.com
WEBPAGE: www.vernestudios.comJPGFILE: <The Combat.jpg>
ZIPFILE: <The Combat.zip>


TOPIC: Warfare
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: tc.jpg
RENDERER USED: 


        3DSMAX 3.1


TOOLS USED: 


        3DSMAX 3.1  for (imports models 3ds).
        LEVELLER  for (fractal maps).
        PHOTOSHOP 5.5  for (image maps; convert image to JPEG; gamma
correction).


RENDER TIME: 

        
        1h 38 min


HARDWARE USED: 


        ATHLON 1.333 (1 GB).


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Operation MARINE LION was the codename that used the German Headquartes to
denominate the only enemy's invasion that was still fighting against the axis
Rome-Berlin: England.  
  
Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to open a route to the German landing in the island.
 
  
But Goering defrauds the F_hrer since The German Luftwaffe it is not able to
guarantee three days of air superiority on the Channel of the Stain. The heroic
resistance of the RAF_s pilots forces the German Command to give up the
landing, so this the invasion of England  never ends up taking place.  
  
The scene represents an air combat between two of the most famous fighters of
the conflict: the RAF's Spitfire Mk1 and the Messersmit BF109e of the German
Luftwaffe, fighting for the air supremacy anywhere over Britain's ground.




DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


At first I modeled and prepared the different elements that would compose the
scenario. It's formed by a cylinder. I have applied it a bitmap that represents
a mountain range, integrated with a fractal mesh at first plane to which I also
applied a texture created with Photoshop.  
  
Nex, I approached the full scene study, first locating the elements next to the
objective of the camera (the airplane and the bridge of first plane), later I
prepared the models that would compose the intermediate plane that's it: the
three airplanes located in the diagonal of the scene. I finished it placing the
other two airplanes that occupy the bottom plane.  
  
Once I concluded the scenic representation of the air combat, I began to add the
special effects necessary to give a bigger realism to the image.   
  
Firstly I prepared a Spherice gizmo whith an effect of volumetric fog applied to
represent some clouds in the scene. Then use a superspray to add the effects of
smoke associated to three of the airplanes.At last I prepared two combustion:
one to simulate the shot of the machine guns of the airplane of first plane,
and another one to represent the explosions of the two demolished airplanes.  
  
To finish I added as render effects a "Color Balance" and a  "Shine and
Contrast" correction and I substituted the airplanes' helixes for a bitmap with
an opacity map, applied on a cylinder, to simulate the effect of movement of
the helixes.