EMAIL: groovejetduo@yahoo.co.uk
NAME: Paul Hope
TOPIC: Catastrophe
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
TITLE: I.S.S. Beer
COUNTRY: Cyprus
WEBPAGE: None
RENDERER USED: Vue d'Esprit 2 (FREE with cover disc of PC Format magazine Aug 2001)
TOOLS USED: Anim8or-for creating more complex models (FREE from www.anim8or.com)
            MicroGrafx Picture Publisher-for making textures (Bundled FREE with Plustek scanner)
            Crossroads-for importing/exporting models(www.freewarehome.com/Graphics/3D_Graphics_t.html)
RENDER TIME: 25h 18m 31s
HARDWARE USED: Cyrix 300 Mhz 128Mb RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
A few years in the future and the International Space Station has become a beacon of international co-operation. The I.S.A. has been formed and new modules are starting to be added. A new smaller Orbiter has been developed that can move cargo and crew to and from the I.S.S. more often. Unfortunately during a routine delivery, the cargo pod containing the beer, has broken loose and drifted off into space...
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
The space staion was made mostly with Vue primitives, using a picture from the ISS website as a reference. More complicated models (Orbiter, hexagons, etc) were made in Anim8or and exported through Crossroads. The ISA logo and "Carlsborg" textures were made in MSWord and prntscrn-ed into Micrografix, then used as jpg textures. The pilot's heads are Anim8tor spline objects and the space-suit figure is a combination of Vue primitives and Anim8tor shapes I made. The globe had to be a squashed sphere very far below the main objects to get the curvature of the earth and to stop shadows of the objects appearing, which obviously wouldn't be seen in real life.