TITLE: Observatory
NAME: Simon Davis
COUNTRY: UK
EMAIL: s.davis@lancaster.ac.uk
WEBPAGE: -

TOPIC: Night
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: observe.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Povray 3.02 for Windows

TOOLS USED: 
    Moray for Windows, TreeDesigner beta3 (Johannes Hubert -
http://www.algonet.se/~jhubert/TreeDesigner/), PaintShop Pro 5 (for treating
moon 
image map and final conversion to jpeg)

RENDER TIME: 
    ~20mins


HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium 233MMX Laptop, 32Mb ram, 2Mb video, 512Kb cache


IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 

An observatory with ground mist and a starry sky.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

A first submission to the IRTC and even by those standards it leaves plenty to
be desired.
I wanted to create a scene with a shaft of red light emerging from the open dome
in the mist
and a haloed moon in the sky. The observatory is spotlit by two ground lights
and there's a 
bluish light in the background to suggest a distant city. The tree is the sample
provided 
with Johannes Hubert's TreeDesigner, exported into a UDO file and imported into
Moray 3. I
didn't get the effect I wanted and am still in the early stages of using Povray.
If anyone
can advise me on using fog, mist and atmosphere in Moray 3 to get those shafts
of light I
would be grateful.

