TITLE: Old Barn NAME: Serge van Gessel COUNTRY: Netherlands EMAIL: gessel@wanadoo.nl TOPIC: Decay COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: oldbarn.jpg RENDERER USED: PovRay 3.5 TOOLS USED: Blender 2.27 3DWin raw2pov RENDER TIME: 22h 36min HARDWARE USED: Pentium III 733 MHZ, 386MB RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: An old forgotten studebaker spending its last days in an old barn. Somebody tried to fix it but has given up on it. Now this beauty is gathering rust and dust for the rest of its days. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: This is my first posting for the IRTC. The idea started during one of the previous rounds (old technology) but I never came any further than the creation of the meshmodel of the car. Fortunately the car found its way into the current topic so my efforts have not been wasted ;o). All objects in this scene (except the sky sphere) are mesh-modelled in Blender and converted to PovRay with 3dWIN and Raw2Pov (Next time I'll use PovAnim for direct Blender-to-PovRay conversion). Textures (all procedural), lights and atmosphere are defined in PovRay. The car was created during an earlier attempt. It looked like a brand new, glossy model which just arrived from the factory. I gave the car a few extra years of age by stirring the vertices a little and adding rusty textures. The barn was modelled after a photograph. I liked it very much and so I wanted to recreate it in Blender and PovRay. Lots of triangles, radiosity, arealights and atmospheric media did the job. It took weeks to get the right effect because calculation times with media and radiosity are painfully slow. When the barn and the car were ready I added some extra stuff, spiderwebs and a landscape. After that I merged everything into one scene, adjusted some of the media, light and texture parameters and finally hit the render button with HQ-settings for radiosity. Cooking time for the final picture on my P733 MHZ was 22 hours and 36 minutes.