I need a new monitor... I like the setting, but it's a bit too dark on my monitor so I can't make out much of the details.

Wow, this is fabulous....keep em coming...Sharen

Hi Haegerst, I think this shows what a soldier could see during a war (and night). Technically, maybe too dark. Do you modelise all the objects in the picture, or use objects from others ? Yves

Hi Folks! Thanks for your comments! Yes I know, the scene is one of the darkest youve ever seen. I made it "extra-dark", because of the scenery (Its my NIGHT-assault theme), I just wanted to get a pretty realistic dark night, Ive thought several times of putting more light into the scene, but at the test-renders it appeared to me, that the realism of a true "dark-night" was gone. Its a VERY dark scene for my monitor, too. Dont try to adjust your monitor and making the scene brighter, just accept, that you cant see everything at dark night. Another reason to keep the picture quite dark was the explosion. In my oppinion the explosion is much more eye-catching than in a good lighted scenery. Maybe Ive seen too many of these action movies with explosions in the darkness. The models are not self-made. I got the military stuff (Tanks, Airplane and so on) from de Esponas Website, hes got some good free models for download (http://www.3dup.com/highmodels/1024/index.html). The soldiers are modified poser models that have been imported to vue. BTW: Most poser stuff I use is from the renderosity free stuff.

Wow! Great action scene going on there! Love the tank coming down the hill. The darkness is fine on my screen. My only suggestion, I know you will loose some detail, but maybe a smaller version of this. I kinda would like to get a feel for the scene without having to scroll the image too much. I am in 1024 res. and have to scroll up and down so I kind of have to look at it like 3 different pictures. :)

Other than that excellent job! :)

@NightVoice: Yup, youre absolutely right! The Pic is so big, if you dont scroll to the right, you cant even see the explosion. Good resolution for a Wallpaper, but for contests its crap! Next Pics I post will be smaller. 640x480 or 800x600? Or something unusual (for a screen res)? Hmmm, maybe I should have a look at the other contestants. Anyhow: thanks for the tip, sounds like Im kinda silly, but I scrolled a lot, too and found it lame. Why didnt I come to that idea myself? Maybe Ill have another look at my first contest pic, hehe... :-Q

:) It is not that bad being big, just a touch too big. I like to post pictures at the res of 800x600. To look at your pic I saved it to disk and opened it at the smaller size. It really is a cool pic, even when smaller. :)