EMAIL: afrancou@hotmail.com NAME: Alexis Francou TOPIC: Frozen Moment COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: "Largemouth Bass" COUNTRY: Mexico WEBPAGE: http://www.freewebs.com/af3dworld RENDERER USED: 3DS MAX TOOLS USED: Paint Shop Pro RENDER TIME: 2 hours 30 minutes HARDWARE USED: Athlon T-bird 850 Mhz, 512 Mb RAM, GeForce 4 Ti4400 IMAGE DESCRIPTION: I got the idea by looking at the box of Sierra's Trophy Bass 4 game for the PC (http://www.trophybass4.com) and other bass pictures on the web. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The largemouth bass and underwater plants were created by extruding faces from a box (box modelling). Part of the splash was also modelled that way, the rest (little drops) are sphere particles. The floating leaves are modified cylinders and the spinner bait was created with basic geometry. The fishing line is a spline. The water and floor are cylinders. The surface of the water is controlled by a ripple modifier, and the sky reflection comes from another cylinder placed above with a white/black gradient material. The texture of the fish is a modified picture that was also used as a guide to create the bump map. The other textures are procedural maps. Lighting comes from 3 omni lights used for ambient and one spot light used as sun light.