TITLE: frozen hot moment
NAME: ahmed shemeis
COUNTRY: egypt
EMAIL: shemosus@yahoo.com
WEBPAGE: www.geocities.com/shemosus
TOPIC: frozen moment
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: 3d studio max
TOOLS USED:  3d st.max , photoshop 6 for textures and enviroment bgnd image 
RENDER TIME: 30 min
HARDWARE USED: pentium 3 450 mhz,128 ram,savage vga card
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
"a frozen hot moment" what an expression , i'm a litrature super freek , i just thought instead of modeling the moment of igniting a match , i should illustrate an ignited line of fire in a freezed critical moment .

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
modelling :  6 models are created by me ( the aa gun ,the radar , the 14.4 mm ammo, the camouflage net , the helix wire , the landscp ), 4 models i've downloaded from  www.3dcafe.com  those were free downloads ( the grenades, the machine gun ,the 2 winged planes and the watertank).great site you should visit it .

landscape : patch grid > modified to reach a convincing 
            landscape.
explosions : lens flares,helpers > atmospheric apps > black
             fog,particles to apply explossion fragments,   
              + cylenderical gizmo to apply volume light 
            for fired ammo  ( line of fire )
lights ( all are omni lights ):1 main source applying 
                               illumination and 1 
            secondary beside the 14.5mm aa gun including 
             the aa gun only and excluding all else.
             1 secondary beside the machine gun including  
             it only and excluding all else (and yet i'm  
             not satisfied with it's effect ).
textures and maps : all done with photoshop 6 .
bgnd enviroment map : photoshop 6 .

last comment : hope all this nonsense hapens to be usefull
               to you because this was the only reason i  
             wrote this crap .