TITLE: Dragons
NAME: Juha Leppala
COUNTRY: Finland
EMAIL: juha-matti.leppala@kolumbus.fi
WEBPAGE: http://www.kolumbus.fi/juha-matti.leppala/
TOPIC: Imaginary Worlds
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: jddrag.jpg
ZIPFILE: jddrag.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.1 Superpatch

TOOLS USED: 
    sPatch for the dragons (exported as DXF), PSP for the heightfield,
3DWin for converting the dragons from DFX to smooth_triangles

RENDER TIME: 
    4h 41m 32s (AA0.1)

HARDWARE USED: 
    AMD K6-2 333 Mhz 64 Megs RAM

NOTICE:I included the main-.pov file and the .inc(textures) file but I didn't
include the
Heightfield nor the dragons cause they were 30 Megs in size (ouch). It's easy to
create a HF
that resembles the one I used but you'll have to live without the dragons :P 
also you should get the other inludefiles yourselves (tress.inc and galaxy.sf)


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    After I saw the topic for this round two ideas came to my
head... do a scene about Half-Life or Baldur's gate. Both are computer games if
you didn't happen to know that. I finally decided for the favour of BG. It's an
addictive game, REALLY!
It's the game of the year imho. In this scene someone has killed a baby dragon
and it's mother is furiously spitting fireballs all over the forest. (I know
there were no dragons in the game, only wyverns but I still made 'em dragons)


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 
    The heightfield was done in PSP. Its a
quite simple gradient with noise. I then added the plane of water. It has a
media but you really can't tell cause of the reflection and the lack of light.
The trees were generated by
Sonya Robert's Trees.inc which i had to modify a bit (add the ';'s there). The
dragons
were made in sPatch. They are basically the same model but I 'Posed' them
differently in sPatch. The reeds are simply 2 cylinders + 2 spheres / reed. The
ball of fire is constructed from two spheres. I've seen people say that halo is
better than media but I actually like what media gave me here :P The two moons
are just two spheres (again) and the stars are
by the galaxy include file by Chris Colefax.

