EMAIL: j_bresky@hotmail.com NAME: John Bresky TOPIC: Spectacular Landscapes COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. TITLE: Northern Lights COUNTRY: Canada WEBPAGE: http://www.angelfire.lycos.com/art2/johnbresky/intro.htm RENDERER USED: Cinema 4D XL v7.2 TOOLS USED: My computer =) RENDER TIME: 20 min HARDWARE USED: P3 450 mhz, 768 mg RAM IMAGE DESCRIPTION: I have always wanted to try to recreate some nice looking mountains, so I though that this would be the perfect opportunity. The scene looked pretty bland at first, but then I got the idea to add the Northern Lights. I am very pleased with the way it turned out. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Well, where to start.... The mountain is just a simple landscape object, the main magic came with the texture! The texture was based on tutorial I found on the web (I can't remember the URL right now, but thank you to whoever you are!). It is a Fusion of two seperate textures, the rock and snow, using Bhodinut SLA. The rock uses a Stupl fractal as a bump map with a very high bump value. The snow uses a Wavey Turbulence, with a softer bump value. I then played around with the settings until I got the shader to my liking. The nothern lights are just point lights that I streched out. I then gave the visible light with turbulence and made sure that they did not eimit any light. I the puposefully placed the camera at the bottom of the mountain looking up to make it look really imposing!