TITLE: Mount Sinai NAME: cb fields COUNTRY: USA EMAIL: cb@fieldsvht.com WEBPAGE: http://www.fieldsvht.com TOPIC: worship COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT. JPGFILE: mount_si.jpg RENDERER USED: Strata 3D Raytracer TOOLS USED: Photo Deluxe, Poser 2.0,True Space 1, Teragen, Asymetrix Web 3D RENDER TIME: final render 2hrs 39 min. @ 800x600 64 bit HARDWARE USED: Pentium II 266, Viper 550 16M video IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The original concept came to me almost immediately after learning the current topic of worship, the end result was many hours yet to come.Striving for accuracy, I refered of course to the Bible learning the event took place in the morning with the entire mountain covered in smoke , lightening and flames.I even created an image according to this, sat back and realized people would have a hard time recognizing this scene.Restarted the project using the more recognizable icon of the flaming bush, although no mention of it, is in my Bible.I did try to retain the "feel" of everything else I could. DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: Strata 3d is wonderful ! If you havent seen this software yet you are really missing out...it allowed me to take images of the real My Sinai and surrounding scenery, manipulate some .bmp texture maps and come up with accurate 3d models to represent the setting.Teragen created, as it always does a great 3d sky which I mated to an actual scenery shot from the top of Mt Sinai, for the background.A free version of Poser 2.0 provided the Moses character and some free-form modeling in again an old version of True Space 1 his robes, hair and beard.Asymetrix Web 3D created staff, title,and signature models.I used Photo Deluxe (alias Photo Shop with a better user interface) to manipulate textures and .bmps for importing, then spent around 40 hours tweaking textures and lighting effects.Absolutely no post production was done except to convert from .bmp to .jpg.