Perfect Day
Honourable Mention In Caligari's November 2000 Image Contest

The North Sea platform supply vessel the Far Service, just off the coast of North East Scotland, on an all-too-rare day of perfect weather.

Technical Details

The Far Service is a real ship, owned by Farstad and working out of the North Sea port of Peterhead. Some good exterior and interior photos of the ship can be found at this link.

The ship mesh is available here at TurboSquid, without the name and logo, but including the cargo.

The landscape in the background was modelled in tS, and textured using shaders I wrote myself, TG Slope Advanced and TG Virtual Light. The sea was textured using the Crumple displacement shader, while texture maps were created for the wake and the TG Colour Reflectance shader used to give the white foam different reflectance settings from the blue water.

The lighting used a ring of local lights with shadowmapped shadows to act as the ambient daylight, with an array of 4 local lights with raytraced shadows acting as the direct sunlight.

Software used was trueSpace4.3.