EMAIL: janoduda@szm.com NAME: Jan Duda TOPIC: Spectacular Landscapes COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Forest COUNTRY: Slovakia WEBPAGE: RENDERER USED: Bryce 3d TOOLS USED: RENDER TIME: 2h HARDWARE USED: celeron 400 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Since i am a big fan of fantasy and i read about dark forests and forests of any kind i became fascinated by them. I wanted to recreate the atmospehere of of such forest, where one could get lost both physicaly and psychicaly or find inspiration or joy. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The scene has been modeled and composited in Bryce version 3. There are some terrain objects for the ground a plane object for the water surface and of course the trees which are actualy terrain objects shaped to act like tree trunks. All the textures are typical Bryce procedurals except one - the ground texture which is a leafy jpg. To give a depth to the scene and impresion of endlessness i used a greenish-bluehaze color and some fog. The tops of the trees are not there, except a few branches. I used a plane with a texture which is placed above the scene out of the view to simulate the branches with leaves. as the light hits the textured plane it creates patchy shadows on the trunks and the forest floor. So thats pretty much it, i hope you like it and give me some comments on improoving it. Jan.