TITLE: Kumite, the finals
NAME: Gerard SCHOCKMEL (G.S.)
COUNTRY: Burkina Faso
EMAIL: MSFL.BF@FASONET.BF
WEBPAGE: N/A
TOPIC: MAGIC
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: kumite.jpg
ZIPFILE: kumite.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POVRAY 3.1 for Windows

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray 2.5, sPatch, TexMagic

RENDER TIME: 
    1 hour, 5 minutes

HARDWARE USED: 
    P120 Notebook, 24 MB RAM, Win95

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    A wink at the various Fighting-games and films, and
contemporary sporting-events : The finals of the famous many-worlds Mage
Kumite. After the favorite, and last century winner, HeadBanger the Red was
surprisingly eliminated in the semi-finals (R.I.P.), the newcomer PortalKeeper
stands against the evil Oberias (BTW, it's a well-known fact that Oberias has
killed PortalKeeper's parents when the latter was a kid, and is now out seeking
revenge... ;)  Doesn't that remind you of a hundred film with a similar
background story...
Each of them has already won a round, and now it's looking pretty bad for
Oberias.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

The scene was code-written in Povray, with occasional previews modeled in Moray
2.5b. The mages and spectators were done using sPatch. Most of the textures are
my own, and were done either with Moray or Texture Magic. Otherwise, the
shipped Textures from PovRay were used.

Obviously, the Halos need some more work on them, but I did them as good as I
could. The robe colors of the spectators are random created, so please excuse
occasional eye-hurts.

Lighting was a major problem, and I'm still not entirely satisfied. I was
planning to use Radiosity with 4 lightsources positioned above the 4 torches.
But radiosity made my halo containers become partly visible. Tried as I could,
but I was not able to remove them (changed radiosity settings, put everything
in Finish to zero, etc. but no avail). Hints welcome!!

I started raytracing now 2 month ago, as I came across POVRAY for Windows by
pure luck, and got hooked immediately. I decided to participate in the IRTC as
magic is one of my favorite themes (books, roleplaying, etc). So I started on
the project on august 12, and now its sunday, 31st, and time is running out
quickly. The scene is still rendering on a DOS notebook, and I'm getting
impatient. Thanks for commenting on my scene for improvement.

Gerard Schockmel   

