Rigger's Dream

My entry this month was even more rushed than last month's! 
I'm leaving Singapore after 4.5 years of collecting junk 
and packing is a real pain. If it wasn't for really loud 
rock, it wouldn't have been finished, in fact.

Don't ask me what it is or what it means, since I know not. 
It took about 2 days to completely finished from scratch, 
and the final 800x600 images took 1.25 hours to render on 
a P200 (low AA).

Everything was done in LW 5.6 except the lightning which 
was done in WinImages:F/X 4. Also, I'd like to apologize in 
advance for the lens flare; I just haven't used one in so 
long I couldn't resist...

With regards to the settings:

I'm using the Snow shader more than the Rust shader on the 
legs. The snow shader actually makes amazing rust if fiddled 
with enough. I find the Rust shader OK in some situations 
(on the eye ribs it's quite nice) but the Snow shader makes 
for a more even and controllable rustiness.

The Water shader I thought was a complete waste of time 
until I realized you needed to make your water as you would 
normally (bump with optional displacement map) THEN apply 
and tweak the Water shader. Actually, for this image, I 
basically didn't modify the default Water settings except 
to increase the fractal bump size (the water is about 20 KM 
wide).

The Snow shader I just applied to the legs and adjusted the 
slope angle until I hit this look. I adjusted the colour1 to 
be the Rust color and colour 2 to be the base (grey) colour. 
A fractal bump and I'm done. A common fractal bump map gave 
the overall look and then I then added the Rust shader with 
a very high Max Radius (in my case 100 but could be higher 
in fact) using Drops mode.

I then copied this surface to the other relevant surfaces 
and rendered away!